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Comprehensive Penetration Testing Services:

Securing Your Digital and Physical Environments

In today’s threat landscape, penetration testing (pen testing) serves as a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities across your digital and physical environments. Our comprehensive pen testing services empower organizations to safeguard their critical assets, maintain compliance, mature towards industry best practice, and build customer trust. From internal networks to social engineering scenarios, we deliver actionable insights tailored to your organization’s unique risk landscape.

What Are Penetration Testing Services?

Penetration testing is a controlled and systematic process of simulating real-world attacks to uncover vulnerabilities in an organization’s systems, networks, and applications. Unlike standard vulnerability scans, pen tests include actively exploiting weaknesses, to a degree agreed upon with the organization, to demonstrate their potential impact, enabling the organization to gain a deeper understanding of their risk exposure.

Why Is Penetration Testing Important?

Regular pen testing allows organizations to identify and address vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them, reducing the likelihood of a breach.

Many frameworks, such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR, mandate regular penetration testing to ensure security measures are effective and compliant. We work with our clients to support pen tests while also supporting compliance initiatives to maintain continuity and partnership.

By testing critical systems, organizations can ensure their operations remain resilient against cyber threats, identifying risks and minimizing potential downtime and financial losses.

A penetration test demonstrates to clients, partners, and regulators that the organization is committed to protecting sensitive data and systems.

Pen testing replicates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by cybercriminals, providing insights into the effectiveness of security defenses under attack conditions.

How Penetration Testing Differs from Vulnerability Scanning

While vulnerability scanning identifies potential weaknesses using automated tools, penetration testing goes a step further by exploiting those vulnerabilities to determine their actual risk and impact. This approach provides a clearer picture of the existing security posture, highlighting vulnerabilities that scanners might overlook or misclassify.

Typically pen tests allow for testing the overall effectiveness of an organization’s people, process and technology. This includes controls that are in place to protect information and assets as well as the people responsible for maintaining the secure operational status of the organizations processes.

Elevate’s Key Penetration Testing Services

Our suite of penetration testing services covers a wide range of attack vectors to provide a holistic view of your security posture. This allows us to work directly with you to create a custom test plan for your environment and the level of test you would like to conduct:

Simulates scenarios where an attacker has gained access to your internal network, whether through an insider threat or compromised credentials.

Activities include:

  • Scanning for misconfigurations, outdated software, and unpatched systems.
  • Assessing segmentation controls to limit lateral movement.
  • Testing internal access controls and privilege escalation pathways.

Focuses on threats originating outside the network, targeting internet-facing systems and services such as VPNs, web servers, and email gateways.
Key activities:

  • Identifying open ports and exposed services.
  • Testing firewall and intrusion detection/prevention configurations.
  • Evaluating defenses against brute force and DDoS attacks.

Web applications and APIs are often the most visible and vulnerable components of an organization’s infrastructure. We test for:

  • Injection attacks, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting (XSS).
  • Misconfigured authentication mechanisms.
  • Non-secure session management and token handling.
  • API-specific flaws, including improper input validation and excessive data exposure.

Human error remains one of the biggest cybersecurity risks. Our social engineering tests evaluate employee susceptibility to manipulation. Our expert testers often study the organization and it people to understand the most effective social engineering vectors:

  • Phishing: Email-based attacks to test awareness and response to malicious links or attachments. We additionally include spear phishing efforts to research and target specific, typically high-ranking, employees.
  • Vishing: Voice-based manipulation to extract sensitive information.
  • Physical Baiting: Using USB devices or similar tactics to test security awareness.

Wireless networks are critical yet often overlooked components of an organization’s infrastructure. Our assessments focus on:

  • Identifying rogue access points and unauthorized devices.
  • Testing encryption protocols (e.g., WPA3 vs. WPA2 vulnerabilities).
  • Assessing SSID configurations and broadcast behavior.

We ensure your cloud environments align with best practices for shared responsibility models. At a quick glance our activities include:

  • Scanning for misconfigurations, such as overly permissive IAM roles.
  • Evaluating secure deployment practices for serverless and containerized environments.
  • Testing access control policies and storage configurations.

Physical security is an essential layer of defense. We test your physical controls to ensure your assets are protected:

  • Tailgating simulations to bypass access controls.
  • Utilizing a manufactured persona to gain entry to facilities.
  • Testing locks, badge systems, and alarm response times.
  • Evaluating CCTV coverage and gaps.

Our Penetration Testing Methodology

Our proven methodology ensures a systematic and comprehensive approach to penetration testing. Each engagement follows these key phases:

We begin by collecting information about your systems, applications, and users to understand the attack surface. This phase involves:

Passive information gathering (e.g., DNS enumeration, OSINT)

Active scanning using tools like Nmap or Nessus

Identifying publicly accessible information about your organization and personnel (if applicable)

Leveraging the data collected, we model potential attack scenarios and identify vulnerabilities using automated tools and manual analysis. This phase focuses on: 

Mapping threats to identified vulnerabilities

Prioritizing attack vectors based on impact and exploitability

Confirming false positives to ensure accurate findings

During this phase, we simulate attacks to exploit identified vulnerabilities within agreed-upon scope limits. Activities include:

Testing for lateral movement in internal environments

Assessing privilege escalation pathways

Exploiting misconfigurations or weak controls to gain unauthorized access

We deliver a detailed report outlining findings, the methods used, and actionable remediation steps. Reports include:

Executive summaries for senior management

Technical findings for IT and security teams

Supporting documentation and evidence

Our Deliverables

We pride ourselves on delivering comprehensive and actionable results:

Executive Summary: High-level insights for stakeholders, focusing on key risks and remediation priorities.

Technical Analysis: Detailed descriptions of identified vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, and their potential impacts.

Risk Ratings: Vulnerabilities are categorized by severity (critical, high, medium, low) to aid prioritization.

Specific, actionable steps to address each finding.

Technical guidance for responding to identified vulnerabilities based on available information.

Suggested tools or configurations to strengthen defenses.

Screenshots, logs, and tool outputs for verification.

Step-by-step documentation of exploitation methods.

Follow-up sessions to clarify findings.

Availability to conduct retesting if requested, for a minimal fee, to identify whether remediation efforts have been successfully implemented.

Advisory services for implementing remediation. Additionally, we employe compliance professionals that work side by side with our pen test team when we are engaged with an organization supporting their compliance efforts. This ensures that findings and reports are prepared well ahead of an audit.

Why Choose Us?

Our team holds industry-leading certifications, including OSCP, CISSP, CEH, and AWS Certified Security. Our Firm’s extensive expertise allows us to help organizations from end to end whether pen testing, conducting security assessments, preparing for an audit, or remediating security controls.

We combine automated tools with manual techniques to ensure a thorough evaluation of vulnerabilities.

Every engagement is customized to align with your organization’s specific needs, industry, and regulatory environment.

We work closely with your team to ensure the assessment aligns with business goals and operational priorities.

Our services meet requirements for compliance frameworks, such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.

The Value of Working With Us

Stay ahead of cyber threats by addressing vulnerabilities before they are exploited.

Meet regulatory mandates with thorough documentation and testing.

Build a stronger security posture by identifying and mitigating risks across all attack vectors.

Demonstrate your commitment to protecting sensitive data, enhancing client and stakeholder confidence.

Secure your organization’s digital and physical assets with our comprehensive penetration testing services. Contact us today to schedule your assessment and take the next step toward a stronger security posture