Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessments
Independent, point-in-time testing of your network, cloud and people, delivered as a standalone engagement with a prioritized remediation plan.
The Problem
You Cannot Attest to What You Have Not Tested
Auditors, cyber insurers and enterprise customers increasingly ask for evidence of independent testing, not a vendor's assurance that everything is fine.
Environments also drift. A firewall rule opened for a project, a forgotten VPN account, an internet-exposed management interface or an unpatched appliance can quietly undo a year of good hygiene.
Automated scanners alone produce hundreds of findings with no sense of what actually matters, which is why most scan reports sit unread.
Engagement Types
Network Tests, Vulnerability Scans and Social Engineering
External and internal network penetration testing: reconnaissance of your internet-facing footprint, exploitation attempts against reachable services, lateral movement and privilege escalation testing from a foothold inside the LAN.
Authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability assessments across endpoints, servers, network devices and cloud tenants, including configuration review of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Social engineering and phishing assessments: targeted phishing campaigns, credential harvesting simulations and, where in scope, pretext calling, measured by click rate, submission rate and reporting rate.
Retesting after remediation so you can demonstrate that findings were actually closed, not just acknowledged.
Deliverables
Reports Built for Auditors and for Engineers
Every engagement produces an executive summary for leadership, insurers and auditors, plus a technical findings section with reproduction steps and evidence.
Findings are ranked by real-world risk, combining severity with exploitability and business impact, so the first item on the list is genuinely the first thing to fix.
Each finding carries a specific, actionable remediation recommendation, not a generic reference. Where you use BITS for managed IT, we can implement the fixes under a separate scope of work.
When Clients Request It
Audits, Insurance Renewals and Annual Reviews
Common triggers are SOC 2 or HIPAA audit requirements, CMMC preparation, a cyber insurance application or renewal questionnaire, a customer security review, or a scheduled annual security assessment.
Testing is delivered as a discrete, time-boxed engagement with an agreed scope, rules of engagement and testing window, and is not bundled into ongoing managed services.
If your goal is continuous monitoring rather than point-in-time testing, our managed detection and response service is the better fit, and the two work well together.
Please note: separate, opt-in engagement
This is a specialized, opt-in service. It is not included as part of your existing managed IT support or cybersecurity plan unless it has been specifically scoped and added to your service agreement. If you're an existing client and want to discuss adding this, contact your account manager or reach out below.