Penetration TestingAI can make a penetration test faster and broader, but it can't replace the judgement of an experienced tester. That's why people stay in charge: our experts run and validate every test, and AI is an optional layer on top that widens coverage and clears the repetitive work. It complements our manual testing, it doesn't replace it.
REQUEST THIS SERVICEOur testers do the work that actually finds the serious issues: understanding how your application is meant to behave, chaining several smaller flaws into a real attack, abusing business logic and proving genuine impact. This manual, expert-driven testing is part of every engagement, follows recognised methodologies such as the OWASP testing guides, and is the part automated tools still can't do reliably enough on their own.
This is not AI bolted on at the end. While our testers work the hard problems, the AI runs the application in parallel, mapping endpoints, surfacing patterns and flows, and flagging points of interest in real time: candidate vulnerabilities, odd behaviour and possible attack chains. The tester picks these up, links them into multi-step attack paths and proves each one with a working exploit. That is what AI-powered penetration testing looks like for us: breadth from the AI, depth and judgement from the human, on the same engagement.
Bringing AI into the process means we can cover more ground and move faster through the repetitive checks, leaving our testers more time for the hard, high-impact problems. And because a person reviews and confirms everything before it reaches you, the report contains real, prioritised, exploitable findings, with the noise and false positives stripped out, not raw machine output. Every finding comes with a working proof of concept and clear remediation guidance.
Every engagement ends with a report written and signed off by our testers: an executive summary, verified findings with a working proof of concept, CVSS scoring and concrete remediation guidance. This matters for compliance, too. A fully automated report often will not satisfy an auditor, because frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 expect testing to be led and validated by qualified people, and that human sign-off is exactly what we keep in the loop.
This isn't a public chatbot you hand your app or source code to. It runs on an innovative, AI-based solution we built in-house: every engagement is customised, so we agree the setup with you and tune it to your project, using local or frontier external models, with the scope and data boundaries defined before we start. We work under NDA and a data processing agreement, and coordinate testing windows around your environment.
The AI layer is an extra you can choose, never a cheaper or watered-down kind of test. Your assessment is always a full, manual penetration test carried out by our experts first; AI simply adds reach on top when it makes sense for your project and timelines. When the scope is large, one big application or several at once, that extra reach is what keeps coverage high without blowing the schedule. And if you'd rather we keep it fully manual, that's completely fine too.
We are a fast-growing company, operating in IT Security and specialized in Cloud and Application Security. Years of experience in penetration testing, consulting, training, and research are available to you through our services.
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Effective date: April 26, 2018
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