Attack Surface Penetration Testing
Exposed API keys on GitHub, orphaned subdomains, and mis-scoped SaaS permissions give attackers friction-free entry points. Packetlabs’ Attack Surface Penetration Testing maps and exploits these exposures the way a real adversary would, pivoting across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem edges. With a 95% manual, OSINT-driven methodology, we uncover the blind spots scanners can’t, so you can shut doors attackers count on.
Your three‑step path to external‑facing security:
Map Your Digital Footprint: Sweep code repos, archives, search engines, and DNS for leaked secrets, misconfigurations, and takeover‑ready assets.
Exploit Like Real Threat Actors: Leverage chain credential spraying, mail‑server flaws, and subdomain hijacks until sensitive data or internal access is gained.
Confidently Close Gaps: We deliver prioritized findings mapped to real adversary tactics and business impacts, and provide a detailed walkthrough session and complimentary retest to validate that every gap has been remediated.
When you understand your attack surface, you control the outcome.
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Your three‑step path to external‑facing security:
Map Your Digital Footprint: Sweep code repos, archives, search engines, and DNS for leaked secrets, misconfigurations, and takeover‑ready assets.
Exploit Like Real Threat Actors: Leverage chain credential spraying, mail‑server flaws, and subdomain hijacks until sensitive data or internal access is gained.
Confidently Close Gaps: We deliver prioritized findings mapped to real adversary tactics and business impacts, and provide a detailed walkthrough session and complimentary retest to validate that every gap has been remediated.
When you understand your attack surface, you control the outcome.
Service Highlights
Unknown Assets. Known Risks Eliminated.
We uncover shadow IT, forgotten domains, orphaned cloud services, and exposed APIs, assets your team may not even know exist. Each one is validated and tested from an attacker’s perspective to reveal exploitable risks hiding in plain sight. Why it matters: You can’t secure what you can’t see. By exposing blind spots before attackers do, you prevent unknown assets from becoming your weakest link.
Our Uncompromising Standards.
Continuous Improvement
Threat actors innovate every day, so our playbook can’t stand still. After each engagement, our testers feed the latest exploit paths, red-team lessons, and threat-intel insights back into our proprietary checklists and methodologies, evolving them in real time. When we arrive at your environment, you’re protected by a continuously improved framework that already accounts for the newest tactics most competitors won’t confront until next year.
CREST Accredited
Your leadership team can’t afford guesswork—they need rock‑solid proof that the people testing your defenses meet the world’s highest bar. That’s why Packetlabs earned CREST accreditation, cybersecurity’s gold‑standard seal awarded only after rigorous, hands‑on exams and ongoing audits by the Council of Registered Security Testers.
Defence In-Depth
For over 12 years, Packetlabs has guided security leaders across North America to victory against real-world breaches. Acting like the adversary, our experts go beyond the initial target pivoting through every in-scope system to stress-test your detection layers so you can see exactly how your “defense in-depth” holds up. The result: not a single client has ever been compromised by a vulnerability we missed, giving you board-ready proof that your organization is well defended.
Beyond Automated Testing
While automated scanners scrape the surface, Packetlabs’ expert-led penetration tests probe the logic, business workflows, and chained exploits that scanners routinely overlook. Leveraging manual exploitation techniques, threat-intel-driven scenarios, and creative lateral thinking, our team exposes high-impact vulnerabilities competitors miss and translates them into clear, fix-ready guidance.
Why Invest in Attack Surface Penetration Testing?
The Identification of Both Digital and Physical Attack Surfaces
Fine-tune your organization's existing cybersecurity techniques, alerts, and responses to maximize protection of your attack surfaces (and enhance the efficacy of future cybersecurity roadmaps for your organization.)
Asset Identification and Risk Assessment
Not all assets are created equal. Some hold sensitive customer data, while others might be less critical public-facing informational websites. Attack Surface Penetration Testing involves classifying these assets based on their criticality and the risk they pose–and testing them from a threat actor’s perspective to determine higher priorities for remediation efforts
In-Depth, Expert-Driven Reporting
Reporting is the final phase in our methodology that involves summarizing identified findings, analyzing the results and performing root-cause analysis and drafting a high-level executive summary to outline key observations and business impact.
Maximize Vulnerability Identification
Identify vulnerabilities across search engines, historical website records, exposed endpoints, public code repositories, employee Internet activity, mail misconfigurations, and more via our partnership with Flare.io.
Resources
Penetration Testing Methodology
Our Penetration Security Testing methodology is derived from the SANS Pentest Methodology, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and the NIST SP800-115 to uncover security gaps.
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May 23 - Blog
Attack Surface Mapping for Proactive Cybersecurity
What is the Attack Surface and why does it matter? This article outlines the process of Attack Surface Mapping to ensure a comprehensive and proactive cybersecurity program.
July 18 - Blog
What Is Attack Surface Management (ASM)?
Attack surface management is a critical security process for identifying and mitigating potential risks associated with changes to your organization's attack surface.
November 09 - Blog
Attack Surface Management: What You Need to Know
Attack surface management (ASM) is a growing sector in the security space, so in this post, we’ll break down what it is and why it’s important to incorporate into your security program.
