Services Objective-based Penetration Testing
With over 2,200 cyberattacks per day–with one being launched every 39 seconds on average–checklist audits won’t stop the one aimed at your most critical assets. Packetlabs guides you with Objective‑Based Penetration Testing (OBPT): a 95 % manual fusion of our Infrastructure Pen Test and Red Team style approach that hunts for gaps in controls, protecting high‑value assets exactly how real adversaries would.
Your three‑step path to certainty:
Define the objectives: Map the business‑critical data or system that an attacker would target
Attack from all angles: Combine network exploits, social engineering, and cloud pivots until we reach the objective
Fix fast with context: After penetration testing is complete, receive a board‑ready road map that shows how we got in (and how to shut every door behind us)
Our Objective-based Penetration Testing is holistic, threat‑aligned, and trusted by North American leaders who refuse to gamble on “good enough.”
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Your three‑step path to certainty:
Define the objectives: Map the business‑critical data or system that an attacker would target
Attack from all angles: Combine network exploits, social engineering, and cloud pivots until we reach the objective
Fix fast with context: After penetration testing is complete, receive a board‑ready road map that shows how we got in (and how to shut every door behind us)
Our Objective-based Penetration Testing is holistic, threat‑aligned, and trusted by North American leaders who refuse to gamble on “good enough.”
Service Highlights
Ensure Uninterrupted Operations
Considered one of the most in-depth penetration tests available, this comprehensive engagement is critical for ensuring regulatory compliance, enhanced Employee Awareness, and ensuring uninterrupted operations long-term.
The Packetlabs Commitment
In-Depth Methodologies
Our Penetration Testing methodology is derived from the SANS Pentest Methodology, the MITRE ATT&CK framework for enterprises, and NIST SP800-115 to ensure compliance with the majority of regulatory requirements. This methodology is comprehensive and has been broken up based on which areas can be tested with automation and those which require extensive manual testing.
CREST-Accredited Expertise
Your leadership team can’t afford guesswork—they need rock‑solid proof 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.
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. The result is a much higher assurance level than conventional "smash-and-grab" pentests that help you sleep better at night.
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.
Why Invest in Objective-Based Penetration Testing?
Answer the “What If” Via a Full-Coverage Approach
OBPT includes a thorough infrastructure penetration test to identify all infrastructure risks, an Active Directory password audit to identify weak passwords, an Active Directory Security Audit to uncover potential unknown escalation paths, a technical ransomware assessment to evaluate the strength of preventive and detective controls, and lastly, phishing to gauge employee security awareness training.
Define Objectives for Zero-Jargon Remediation Recommendations
Objective-Based Penetration Testing begins with defining objectives. Typical objectives include: obtain access to high-security networks, access to sensitive information, or control over a target. From there, our consultants will develop a plan to reach the objective through any possible attack technique in order to locate the weakest link; people, process, or technology.
Shield Your Organization From Potentially Devastating Losses
With over 77% of organizations not having a cybersecurity incident response plan in place, proactive Objective-Based Penetration Testing works to ensure full-coverage security. 360-degree pentesting such as OBPT increases the return on security investment (ROSI) by significantly mitigating the chances that an organization will suffer a cyber breach
Formulate 360-Degree Countermeasures
Identify how attackers can leverage a compromised credential, test end-point anti-malware capability against ransomware propagation techniques, pinpoint threats to single compromised passwords or internal end-points, and educate stakeholders and senior leadership via actionable narratives–without technical jargon.
Resources
OBPT Sample Report
Packetlabs’ OBPT methodology evaluates the security controls across people, processes and technology in order to identify potential areas of weakness.
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OBPT Methodology
Simulate real-world, covert, goal-oriented attacks to answer the 'what if' of how far a compromised credential can take an attacker.
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Your Guide to Objective-Based Penetration Testing
Objective-based Penetration Testing is a flexible testing approach configurable to any organization's unique infrastructure and risk requirements. This guide includes everything you need for OBPT.
March 11 - Blog
What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing is a type of security testing that utilizes automated tools, manual techniques and procedures to evaluate your resistance to a breach.
July 24 - Blog
What Are the Elements of High-Quality Penetration Testing?
What are the elements of high-quality penetration testing? Our team of ethical hackers details how to differentiate high-quality vs. low-quality tests, and when to opt for pentesting over a VA scan.
