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Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Find the paths attackers would use to reach your systems from exposed services to internal lateral movement. Packetlabs simulates real intrusion across networks, servers, identity, and cloud-connected infrastructure so your team can fix what actually matters.

Secure Your Infrastructure

Infrastructure testing isn't a checklist; it's an attacker's playbook. When your network is the front door, you need proof it's locked.

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What We Test Across Your Infrastructure

You don't need everything tested. You need the attack paths that actually put systems and data at risk. Our infrastructure penetration testing focuses on the routes adversaries use most.

Installer & Update Security

Validate signing, packaging, and update channels so attackers can't swap binaries or hijack distribution.

Read the intro guide to Infra Pentesting

Local Data & Secrets

Find exposed keys, tokens, PII, and unsafe caching in files, registries, keychains, and memory dumps.

Learn how to secure PII

Identity & AD Pathways

Test how quickly a compromise becomes domain-level access through misconfigurations, weak controls, or privilege sprawl.

Read about pentesting pricing

Server & Endpoint Weaknesses

Validate hardening, patching, and local escalation paths that attackers use to gain persistence.

Learn about best patch management practices

Hybrid & Cloud Trust

Assess cloud connectivity, IAM, and trust relationships that expand blast radius in hybrid environments.

Read more about cloud native security

Assumed Breach Simulation

Start from a realistic foothold and measure how far an attacker can move fast.

Read about our testing approach

Infrastructure Penetration Testing FAQs

Clear scope. Realistic attack paths. Evidence you can act on. Our infrastructure penetration tests are tailored to your environment on a prem, cloud, or hybrid, so results map to how you operate, not a generic template.

What's included in an infrastructure penetration test?

We test external exposure and internal attack paths across networks, servers, and identity. That can include VPN/remote access, segmentation, AD pathways, privilege escalation, and hybrid trust relationships. Scope is defined around what would meaningfully reduce risk in your environment.

Infrastructure Penetration Testing vs. Red Teaming

Infrastructure testing should prove security is working not generate noise. Here's what's different when testing is led by real attack paths.

Infrastructure Penetration TestingAdversary Simulation (Red Team Testing)

Scope

Focuses on networks, servers, firewalls, cloud infrastructure, and internal systems

Simulates full-scope real-world attacks across people, processes, and technology

Attack Surface

Evaluates exposed services, VPNs, Active Directory, cloud configs, and internal segmentation

Tests external perimeter, internal systems, identity controls, detection capabilities, and response readiness

Primary Objective

Identify vulnerabilities that allow unauthorized access or lateral movement

Measure how far a real attacker could go before being detected and stopped

Common Weaknesses Identified

Open ports, misconfigurations, weak segmentation, outdated services, insecure remote access

Gaps in detection, alert fatigue, privilege escalation paths, weak response coordination

Testing Approach

Targeted testing of infrastructure components to uncover exploitable weaknesses

Goal-driven attack simulation designed to achieve defined objectives (e.g., domain admin, data exfiltration)

Authentication & Access Control

Tests Active Directory security, privileged accounts, IAM roles, and segmentation controls

Attempts credential theft, privilege escalation, phishing, and identity abuse

Detection & Response Validation

Limited focus on SOC performance unless scoped

Directly evaluates SOC detection, alerting, and incident response effectiveness

Impact if Compromised

Network foothold, ransomware risk, internal system exposure

Full attack chain simulation demonstrating business-level impact

Ideal For

Organizations validating infrastructure hardening and configuration security

Mature organizations wanting to test real-world resilience and detection capability

Infrastructure Pen Testing: Key Outcomes

Your team leaves with proof: what's reachable, what's chainable, and what to fix first to reduce real breach risk.

Stop Local-to-Cloud Breakouts

Identify how a compromised endpoint can pivot into backend systems and close the path.

Eliminate Exposed Secrets

Find and remove hardcoded credentials, tokens, and unsafe local storage patterns.

Harden Critical Systems

Prioritize fixes that actually block exploitation beyond patch lists and generic checkups.

Catch New Exposure Early

Spot changes in external attack surface and validate controls after meaningful change.

Get Audit-Ready Evidence

Document controls, testing outcomes, and remediation verification for stakeholders.

Enable Your Team

Work side-by-side with your engineers and security team to transfer attack knowledge.

What People Say About Us

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