Find Your Vulnerabilities Before Someone Else Does

You Cannot Protect What You Do Not Understand

Every business has vulnerabilities. The question is whether you find them through a controlled assessment or through an actual breach. In 2026, with ransomware attacks averaging £3.4 million in cost for UK mid-market firms and regulatory penalties increasing year on year, the cost of not testing far exceeds the cost of testing.

Penetration testing gives you an honest picture of where your defences stand. Not the theoretical picture from a compliance checklist, but the practical reality of what an attacker could achieve if they targeted your business today.

What Our Pen Tests Cover

Our penetration testing in London covers your entire attack surface. We start externally, testing everything visible from the internet: your website, email gateway, VPN endpoints, cloud services, and DNS configuration. We look for vulnerabilities that would let an attacker gain initial access to your environment.

Then we move internal. With a foothold on your network (simulating a compromised employee device or a successful phishing attack), we test how far an attacker could move. Can they escalate privileges? Reach sensitive file shares? Access financial systems? Extract client data? This internal testing reveals the gaps that matter most, because initial access is not the goal — what happens after is what determines the damage.

For web applications, we test beyond the OWASP Top 10. Injection flaws, authentication bypasses, insecure direct object references, and business logic vulnerabilities are all in scope. If your application handles financial data or client information, these tests are essential.

Beyond the Scanner

Automated vulnerability scanners have their place. We run them as part of every engagement. But scanners miss the things that human testers find: chained vulnerabilities where three low-severity issues combine into a critical attack path, logic flaws in application workflows, misconfigured trust relationships between systems, and social engineering vectors that no scanner can test.

Our testers spend time understanding your environment, thinking like an attacker, and finding the paths of least resistance. That is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a genuine penetration test.

Clear Reporting, Real Remediation

Every pen test produces two deliverables. The executive summary is a 2-3 page document your board and compliance team can read in 10 minutes. It covers the scope, key findings, overall risk posture, and strategic recommendations.

The technical report contains every finding with full details: what we found, how we exploited it, what an attacker could achieve, and exactly how to fix it. Remediation steps are specific and actionable — not generic advice like “apply patches” but precise instructions your IT team can follow.

After remediation, we re-test every finding to confirm the fix is effective. You receive an updated report showing the before and after state of each vulnerability.

Compliance and Regulation

For FCA-regulated firms, regular penetration testing satisfies requirements under DORA’s digital operational resilience testing framework. We scope our tests to align with regulatory expectations and produce reports formatted for submission to compliance and audit teams. Cyber Essentials Plus certification also requires an external vulnerability test, which our assessment covers.