Security Audits

Uncover Hidden Vulnerabilities With Expert-Led Security Testing
In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, security vulnerabilities can lurk in unexpected places within your technical infrastructure, applications, and organizational processes. Certified OffSeq specialists conduct thorough security assessments that identify these vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them, providing detailed analysis and practical recommendations to strengthen your security posture.
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Understanding Modern Security Assessments

Beyond Checkbox Compliance
Modern security assessments provide critical insights beyond compliance requirements:
  • Discover exploitable vulnerabilities in systems and applications
  • Identify security control weaknesses and procedural gaps
  • Test the effectiveness of existing security measures
  • Validate security investments and identify optimization opportunities
  • Prioritize security improvements based on actual risk
  • Enhance overall security posture through expert recommendations
The Attacker Advantage
Organizations face increasingly sophisticated adversaries with significant advantages:
  • Attackers need to find just one vulnerability; defenders must secure everything
  • Threat actors continuously develop new exploitation techniques
  • Advanced persistent threats (APTs) may operate undetected for months
  • Ransomware groups employ sophisticated targeting and extortion tactics
  • Supply chain compromises provide attackers with trusted access paths
  • Zero-day vulnerabilities provide attackers with unknown attack vectors

Our Assessment Methodology

Our assessment approaches combine industry standards with real-world attack techniques to deliver thorough, practical security evaluations that reflect current threats.

Rigorous and Realistic

Our testing approaches simulate real-world threats:
  • Methodology based on industry standards (OWASP, NIST, PTES, MITRE ATT&CK)
  • Attack scenarios derived from current threat intelligence
  • Testing conducted by certified security professionals
  • Multiple testing angles to identify diverse vulnerabilities
  • Exploitation attempts to validate vulnerability impact
  • Clear documentation of findings with practical remediation guidance

Ethical and Controlled

Our assessments balance thoroughness with safety:
  • Defined scope and explicit authorization before testing
  • Controlled exploitation that minimizes operational impact
  • Secure handling of evidence and vulnerability information
  • Immediate notification of critical vulnerabilities
  • Testing conducted within agreed timeframes
  • Detailed activity logs for transparency and review

Security Assessment Types

We offer a range of assessment types to address different security objectives, risk profiles, and organizational maturity levels.

Vulnerability Assessment

Our systematic vulnerability assessment methodically identifies security weaknesses across your environment, providing a comprehensive view of your attack surface. This foundational assessment includes detailed scanning for known vulnerabilities using enterprise-grade tools, thorough configuration and hardening reviews against industry benchmarks, evaluation of existing security controls and their effectiveness, careful validation and prioritization of discovered vulnerabilities based on exploitability and impact, and clear remediation guidance with verification procedures to ensure proper implementation.

Penetration Testing (Pentest)

Our penetration testing service goes beyond identification to actively attempt exploitation, determining whether vulnerabilities can be leveraged to compromise systems or data. This hands-on assessment includes controlled exploitation of discovered vulnerabilities to validate their severity, privilege escalation attempts to determine how far an attacker could penetrate your environment, lateral movement testing to uncover potential attack paths throughout your network, data access and exfiltration simulation to evaluate potential business impact, defense evasion techniques to test detection capabilities, and thorough post-exploitation analysis to provide a complete picture of security implications.

Red Team Engagement

Our advanced red team engagements simulate sophisticated threat actors using realistic tactics, techniques, and procedures to test your complete security program effectiveness. This comprehensive assessment includes multi-phase campaigns conducted over extended timeframes to simulate persistent threats, combined technical and social engineering approaches to identify both system and human vulnerabilities, covert operations focused on stealth to test detection capabilities, specific objective targeting that mirrors real-world attacker goals, multiple attack vectors and persistence mechanisms to evaluate defense-in-depth, and realistic adversary simulation based on current threat intelligence relevant to your industry.

Specialized Assessments

Our focused assessments target specific technologies or environments with tailored methodologies designed for their unique security characteristics. These specialized services include web application security assessments using OWASP methodologies, mobile application testing for both Android and iOS platforms, comprehensive cloud security reviews across major providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), IoT/OT security assessments for connected devices and industrial systems, wireless network security testing to identify radio frequency vulnerabilities, physical security and social engineering evaluations to test your human security layer, and in-depth source code security reviews to identify vulnerabilities at their origin.

Testing Approaches

We adapt our testing methodology based on your specific security objectives, providing different levels of information to our assessment team.

Black Box Testing

External attacker simulation.
  • Simulates external attacker perspective
  • No prior knowledge of systems or architecture
  • Focuses on discoverable vulnerabilities
  • Tests external security perimeter effectiveness
  • Evaluates security from adversary viewpoint

Gray Box Testing

Privileged insider simulation.
  • Simulates insider or privileged attacker
  • Limited knowledge of systems and architecture
  • Balanced between thoroughness and realism
  • More efficient discovery of complex vulnerabilities
  • Often represents the most realistic attack scenario

White Box Testing

Maximum vulnerability discovery.
  • Full access to systems, documentation, and source code
  • Comprehensive coverage of all components
  • Identifies deep architectural vulnerabilities
  • Maximizes vulnerability discovery efficiency
  • Provides most thorough security evaluation

Attacker Categories and Simulation

We offer a range of assessment types to address different security objectives, risk profiles, and organizational maturity levels.

Script Kiddies
Low-skilled attackers using pre-built tools:
  • Employ automated scanning and exploitation tools
  • Target common, unpatched vulnerabilities
  • Typically opportunistic rather than targeted
  • Limited technical capabilities but still dangerous
  • Represent high-volume, low-sophistication threats
Hacktivists
Ideologically motivated attackers:
  • Target organizations based on political/social views
  • Focus on public disruption and embarrassment
  • Employ DDoS, website defacement, and data leaks
  • Varied technical capabilities from basic to advanced
  • Often seek public attention for their causes
Organized Crime Groups
Financially motivated professional attackers:
  • Sophisticated technical capabilities and resources
  • Employ ransomware, banking trojans, and data theft
  • Operate with business-like organization and specialization
  • Target high-value data and extortion opportunities
  • Employ advanced persistence and evasion techniques
Nation-State Actors
Government-sponsored threat groups:
  • Extremely sophisticated capabilities and resources
  • Long-term campaigns with specific intelligence objectives
  • Custom malware and zero-day exploitation capabilities
  • Advanced operational security and stealth techniques
  • Target critical infrastructure, intellectual property, and strategic assets
Insider Threats
Financially motivated professional attackers:
  • Exploit existing privileges and system knowledge
  • May have legitimate access to sensitive systems
  • Can bypass perimeter security controls
  • Often motivated by financial gain or grievances
  • May operate over extended periods with minimal indicators

Service Options

We offer flexible service packages that address different organizational needs, risk profiles, and security maturity levels.

Essential

Foundational security validation
  • External and internal vulnerability scanning
  • Critical system configuration review
  • Security control evaluation
  • Basic web application security testing
  • Prioritized findings with remediation guidance
  • Executive summary and technical report
  • 30-day follow-up consultation

Enterprise

Comprehensive security evaluation
  • Comprehensive vulnerability assessment and penetration testing
  • Security architecture review
  • Cloud infrastructure security evaluation
  • Selected application security testing
  • Third-party vendor risk assessment
  • Advanced exploitation attempts for critical systems
  • Detailed attack path analysis
  • Executive and technical reporting
  • 90-day remediation guidance
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Red Team

Advanced attack simulation
  • Realistic adversary emulation based on threat intelligence
  • Multi-vector attack approach (technical, physical, social)
  • Extended campaign duration (typically 4-8 weeks)
  • Covert operations with stealth focus
  • Specific objective targeting
  • Advanced persistence and lateral movement
  • Defensive control evasion techniques
  • Purple team option with defensive collaboration
  • Detailed attack narrative and findings report
  • Security program improvement roadmap

The Assessment Process

Our structured six-phase methodology ensures thorough evaluation while maintaining operational safety and providing actionable security insights.

Planning and Scoping

We begin by clearly defining the assessment parameters to ensure alignment with your security objectives and operational requirements. This crucial foundation includes objectives and requirements definition, scope determination, rules of engagement establishment, testing approach selection, timeline coordination, authorization documentation, and emergency contact procedures.

Intelligence Gathering

Our team collects comprehensive information about the target environment to identify potential attack vectors and vulnerabilities. This reconnaissance phase includes technical reconnaissance, open-source intelligence collection, target enumeration and mapping, technology stack identification, potential vulnerability research, and attack surface analysis.

Vulnerability Analysis

We conduct systematic examination of systems, applications, and infrastructure to identify security weaknesses. This thorough analysis includes systematic vulnerability scanning, manual security testing, configuration and architecture review, authentication and authorization testing, encryption implementation assessment, and security control evaluation.

Exploitation and Post-Exploitation

For penetration tests and red team engagements, we attempt controlled exploitation to validate vulnerabilities and assess potential impact. This critical phase includes vulnerability exploitation attempts, privilege escalation testing, lateral movement within the environment, data access simulation, persistence mechanism testing, defense evasion techniques, and impact assessment.

Analysis and Reporting

Our experts analyze all findings to provide clear, actionable security insights prioritized by risk. This comprehensive documentation includes vulnerability validation and classification, risk prioritization based on impact and exploitability, root cause analysis, detailed technical documentation, practical remediation recommendations, executive summary, and technical implementation guidance.

Remediation Support (Optional)

We provide expert guidance to help your team effectively address identified vulnerabilities. This valuable support includes findings review and clarification, remediation strategy consultation, technical guidance for complex issues, verification testing for critical fixes, and follow-up assessment to validate improvements.

Business Benefits

Our security assessment services provide measurable advantages that enhance your security posture while demonstrating due diligence to stakeholders and regulators.

Proactive Risk Reduction

Identify and address vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them, potentially saving millions in breach-related costs.

Security Investment Optimization

Validate existing security controls and identify the most effective areas for additional security investment.

Continuous Improvement Framework

Establish a baseline and implement regular assessments to track security maturity improvement over time.

Regulatory Compliance

Meet security testing requirements for frameworks including NIS2, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and sector-specific regulations.

Real-World Validation

Move beyond theoretical security to understand your actual defensive capabilities against realistic attacks.

Discover and Address Your Security Vulnerabilities

Don’t wait for attackers to find weaknesses in your defenses. Contact OffSeq today to schedule a security assessment that provides clarity on your security posture and practical guidance for improvement.

Why Choose OffSeq for Security Testing

Elite Expertise

Our assessment team includes certified professionals with extensive experience in offensive security, having discovered and exploited vulnerabilities across diverse environments.

Adversary Mindset

Our "Adversary Tactics for Cyber Resilience" approach combines technical expertise with the strategic thinking of real-world attackers.

Comprehensive Coverage

Our assessments evaluate technical, procedural, and human security elements for holistic security understanding.

Case Studies

Real-world examples demonstrating how our security assessments identify critical vulnerabilities and strengthen organizational defenses against current threats.

E-commerce Platform Prevents Data Breach

A medium-sized online retailer engaged OffSeq for a security assessment of their e-commerce platform. Our testing identified critical vulnerabilities in their payment processing integration that could have exposed customer financial data.
Result: Implementing our recommendations not only secured customer information but also enabled PCI DSS compliance certification.

Financial Institution Strengthens Defenses

A regional financial institution commissioned a red team engagement to evaluate their security posture. OffSeq’s team successfully accessed sensitive financial data through a combination of technical exploits and social engineering.
Result: The assessment revealed critical gaps in their defense-in-depth strategy, leading to significant security architecture improvements and enhanced detection capabilities.

Critical Infrastructure Provider Validates Controls

A utility company required security validation of their operational technology environment. OffSeq’s specialized assessment identified several pathways between corporate IT and critical OT systems that bypassed existing segmentation controls.
Result: Remediation prevented potential disruption of essential services and strengthened regulatory compliance.

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