Assessment vs. Penetration Test
Vulnerability assessments identify and prioritize known issues; penetration tests verify exploitability, demonstrate attack chains, and quantify business impact. Scans are ideal for ongoing hygiene; pentests are for assurance and remediation prioritization.
Who benefits
- Executives & Boards: Concise risk briefings and remediation ROI.
- Security & IT Leaders: Prioritized, reproducible findings for remediation.
- Compliance Teams: Audit-ready mapping to PCI, HIPAA, ISO and SOC frameworks.
- Product & Engineering: Proof-of-concept and clear remediation steps.
Practical outcome: A prioritized remediation plan that reduces exploitable risk and supports audits and governance.
Our approach
- Scope & discovery: asset inventory, threat modeling, and compliance mapping.
- Reconnaissance & automated scanning to identify candidate issues.
- Targeted manual testing to validate exploitability and attack chains.
- Risk scoring, proof-of-concept, and prioritized remediation planning.
- Retest and validation to confirm fixes and reduce residual risk.
Deliverables
Clear, actionable outputs you can use immediately to reduce risk and support compliance.
- Technical report with findings, CVSS and business-impact scoring, and proof-of-concept where applicable.
- Executive summary with prioritized risk overview and remediation ROI.
- Remediation roadmap mapped to systems, owners, and estimated effort.
- Compliance mapping (PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2) tied to findings.
- Retest and validation report after remediation.