Services Assumed Breach Penetration Testing
Most penetration tests begin at the perimeter, but attackers rarely do. Packetlabs, a trusted Penetration Testing Company, offers Assumed-Breach Penetration Testing that starts inside your environment, simulating compromised accounts, vulnerable servers, or exposed cloud assets. We reveal how quickly an intruder could escalate privileges, move laterally, and access critical data.
Your three-step path to breach-readiness:
1. Map the Breach Scenario: Collaborate to select realistic threat actors and scenarios to evaluate, along with key targets in your most critical systems, applications, and networks.
2. Emulate Adversaries: We'll simulate advanced threats by escalating privileges, pivoting across network segments, and bypassing EDR controls with proprietary expert-developed techniques. This allows us to go deeper than standard testing, demonstrating how an attacker could reach your crown jewels and revealing the true business impact of every finding. 3. Fix Fast and Fortify: Receive a detailed report outlining findings by severity and step-by-step remediation guidance.
Because in today’s threat landscape, speed is security.
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Your three-step path to breach-readiness:
1. Map the Breach Scenario: Collaborate to select realistic threat actors and scenarios to evaluate, along with key targets in your most critical systems, applications, and networks.
2. Emulate Adversaries: We'll simulate advanced threats by escalating privileges, pivoting across network segments, and bypassing EDR controls with proprietary expert-developed techniques. This allows us to go deeper than standard testing, demonstrating how an attacker could reach your crown jewels and revealing the true business impact of every finding. 3. Fix Fast and Fortify: Receive a detailed report outlining findings by severity and step-by-step remediation guidance.
Because in today’s threat landscape, speed is security.
Service Highlights
Simulate Perimeter Breach Scenarios
We start from the point of compromise, not theory, exploiting real external-facing services to demonstrate how quickly an attacker could gain a foothold and pivot toward your critical assets. Why it matters: This exercise mirrors realistic breach entry points, such as exploiting a vulnerable web application, abusing misconfigured remote access, or leveraging stolen credentials. It validates your containment strategies, incident response speed, and resilience against techniques most likely to cause a high-profile security event.
Our Uncompromising Standards.
No Allowlists. No Assumptions.
We don't ask for allowlisting. We don't rely on vendor claims. Our experts develop custom EDR bypass techniques to prove what attackers can actually achieve in your environment. When a detection tool fails to catch us, you'll see the blind spots adversaries could exploit, giving you proof, not assumptions, about your defenses.
Risk Reduced. Business Protected.
Reduce impact. Reduce likelihood. Our post-compromise testing reveals weaknesses that could cause significant operational downtime, data loss, safety incidents, or failure to meet regulatory compliance. Closing these gaps now reduces the likelihood and impact of a breach, protecting your operations, stakeholders, customers, and brand.
High-Impact Objectives
Every step has a purpose. Every objective drives business value. Scenarios reflect the post-compromise actions that adversaries could realistically take in your environment. We focus on privilege escalation, lateral movement, and gaining access to your "crown jewels", delivering intelligence that strengthens resilience and reduces operational, reputational, and compliance risk.
Fix. Verify. Prove Resilience.
Resolve the risk. Enable the fix. We provide your team with prioritized vulnerability remediation guidance that is aligned with security best practices and your organization's operational needs. The support helps ensure speedy remediation that results in effectively patched vulnerabilities, solid security controls, and confidence that your defenses are working as intended.
Assume Compromise. Prove Resilience.
Simulate Real-World Threat Scenarios
Attackers don't always knock at the front door; they start where they have leverage. Our testing begins at the point of compromise and follows the same escalation paths an adversary would: Privilege Abuse, Control Bypass, Lateral Movement towards your most valuable assets. Benefit: You'll see exactly how far a real breach could go in your environment.
Threat-Aligned Methodology
We map our approach to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, simulating the exact tactics, techniques, and procedures used against organizations like yours. This ensures every engagement is relevant to your industry, environment, and specific threat profile. Benefit: Every test reflects real adversary behavior, for intelligence you can act on immediately.
Maximize Your Testing ROI
We focus on the paths that matter; straight to your "crown jewels." By eliminating audit noise, we test your detection, response, and containment where it counts the most, delivering faster, more cost-effective engagements.
Benefit: Every dollar of testing targets real risk, not what's already secure.
Expose Business-Level Risk
Instead of abstract risk scores, you get a clear evidence-backed narrative: What was accessed, how it could be misused, and the potential real-world business impact on operations, revenue, and reputation.
Benefit: Translates technical findings into leadership-level reporting for faster buy-in and quick remediation.
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