# Manual Penetration Testing for Web, API, Cloud, and Infrastructure

Find exploitable risk before attackers, auditors, or enterprise customers do. We combine manual testing, clear reporting, and remediation guidance so your team can fix what matters and move forward.

Manual testing that goes beyond automated scanner output

- Web app, API, cloud, internal, and external infrastructure coverage
- Executive and technical reports your team can actually use
- Remediation guidance and optional retesting after fixes

## Pentest Brief

### Audit-ready findings

**Scope**: Web + API  
**Window**: 10 days  
**Retest**: Included

**Validated findings**  
- **Critical**: Auth bypass path  
- **High**: API object access  
- **Medium**: Cloud permission chain

**Executive summary**  
- Technical reproduction steps  
- Remediation roadmap

## WHY IT MATTERS

### A penetration test should create decisions, not just a PDF.

Many teams ask for a pentest because a customer, auditor, insurer, or board member needs evidence. We make that useful by turning the engagement into a prioritized plan your engineering and security teams can execute.

**Common triggers**:  
- SOC 2 audit evidence  
- Enterprise customer security review  
- New app, API, or major release  
- Cloud or infrastructure risk review

**Find exploitable risk**:  
Manual testers validate impact, chain issues where appropriate, and separate real risk from scanner noise.

**Support audits and customers**:  
Get a professional report that helps satisfy SOC 2, enterprise security reviews, and board questions.

**Fix the right things first**:  
Findings are prioritized by severity, exploitability, affected assets, and practical remediation effort.

**Close the loop**:  
We stay available for remediation questions and can retest fixes so your team can move forward.

## SCOPE

### What we can test

Scope can be narrow for an audit deadline or broader for a full attack-path review.

#### Web apps and APIs  
Authentication, authorization, data exposure, business logic, OWASP Top 10, and API abuse paths.
   
- Authentication, session management, and password reset flows
- Broken access control, tenant isolation, and privilege escalation
- API authorization, data exposure, rate limits, and abuse cases
- Business logic flaws automated scanners usually miss

#### Cloud environments  
AWS, Azure, and GCP reviews focused on identity, exposed services, storage, and cloud-native risk.
   
- IAM privilege review and risky permission paths
- Exposed storage, secrets, services, and management interfaces
- Container, Kubernetes, and serverless configuration checks
- Attack paths from cloud misconfiguration to data access

#### Infrastructure and network  
External and internal network testing to identify reachable vulnerabilities and attack paths.
   
- External attack surface validation and exploitability review
- Internal network paths, lateral movement, and segmentation gaps
- Firewall, remote access, and exposed administration checks
- Manual validation of scanner findings to reduce false positives

#### Social engineering  
Optional human-focused testing for phishing, vishing, and security-awareness validation.
   
- Phishing scenarios aligned to your real business context
- Vishing or pretexting exercises when appropriate
- Security awareness and reporting workflow validation
- Executive-safe summary of human risk and next steps

## DELIVERABLES

### Clear evidence for executives, engineers, auditors, and customers.

The report is designed to help leadership understand risk while giving technical teams enough detail to reproduce, prioritize, and fix each issue.

- Executive summary written for leadership and customers
- Technical findings with reproduction steps and evidence
- Risk-ranked remediation roadmap
- Remediation office hours or Slack support when needed
- Retest support to verify fixes
- Audit-ready report package

## PROCESS

### How the engagement works

We keep the process structured so testing is safe, useful, and easy for your team to act on.

#### Step 1: Discovery & Planning
- Define testing scope
- Establish testing timeline
- Gather technical information

#### Step 2: Testing & Exploitation
- Vulnerability scanning
- Manual testing techniques
- Exploitation of vulnerabilities

#### Step 3: Analysis & Reporting
- Vulnerability assessment
- Risk prioritization
- Remediation guidance

#### Step 4: Remediation & Verification
- Remediation consultation
- Verification testing
- Final security assessment

## ESTIMATE SCOPE

### Penetration testing scope planner

Use this as a planning aid. We will confirm final scope, timeline, and reporting needs with you.

### Build a planning estimate

Select the areas you may need tested. We will confirm final pricing and timeline after reviewing scope, access, testing windows, and reporting needs.

**Testing parameters**  
- Web Application Testing  
- Mobile Application Testing  
- Network Penetration Testing  
- Cloud Security Assessment  
- Social Engineering  
- Compliance-Focused Testing (PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC2)

**Report Detail Level**: Standard (Findings + Remediation Steps)

### COMMON QUESTIONS

#### What is the difference between a vulnerability scan and a penetration test?

#### How often should we conduct penetration tests?

#### Will testing disrupt our operations?

#### What deliverables will we receive?

#### How do you handle sensitive data during testing?