Penetration testing that proves the risk is real
AI-powered offensive security validation for your networks, endpoints, websites and APIs. We don’t just tell you a vulnerability might exist, we safely prove which ones an attacker could actually exploit, so you fix what genuinely matters first.
Proof, not a 300-page list of maybes
A traditional vulnerability scan hands you a long report, often hundreds of findings, with no way to know which are genuine threats. Most turn out not to be exploitable in your environment at all, and your team burns days chasing noise instead of fixing what matters.
Project IT takes a different approach. Our offensive security validation safely attempts to actually exploit the weaknesses it finds, using real proof-of-concept techniques. If a vulnerability can be exploited in your specific network, you see the proof. If it can’t, it doesn’t clutter the report. The result is a short, ranked list of risks that are genuinely exploitable, so you can secure the business fast.
Penetration testing is offered to Project IT managed service clients as a scoped project. Depending on scope, we may engage a specialist third party to support the assessment, agreed with you beforehand in the statement of work.
What you get
- Validated risks, proven exploitable, not theoretical
- Effectively zero false positives to wade through
- Clear evidence of how an attacker would get in
- Risks ranked by real exploitability and impact
- Practical remediation advice for your team
- Optional retest once the fixes are in place
Autonomous AI testing changes the picture
Traditional penetration testing is a point-in-time snapshot, expensive, slow, and usually done once a year because that’s all the budget and the calendar allow. The trouble is that the average time for a new vulnerability to become exploitable has collapsed from months to days. A once-a-year test leaves you exposed for the other 360.
AI-powered offensive security validation is changing that. An autonomous platform maps your attack surface, attempts real exploits, and validates findings continuously, at a speed and consistency no manual process can match. It does the relentless, repetitive attack work, while the assessment is still scoped, supervised and interpreted by people. You get the rigour of a real attack, far more often than a traditional test, without the traditional cost of running one every month.
Talk to us about continuous validation- Exploits attempted, not just vulnerabilities listed
- Continuous validation, not a once-a-year snapshot
- Keeps pace as new vulnerabilities emerge
- Scoped and supervised by Project IT
Two sides of the same picture
Most businesses need both: the infrastructure attackers reach from inside, and the websites and APIs exposed to the whole internet.
We test your internal network the way an attacker would after gaining a foothold, looking for weak configurations, exposed services, and paths that allow movement from one system to the next.
Desktops, laptops and servers are common entry points. We assess how well your endpoints are hardened and how far a compromise of one device could spread.
Identity is the backbone of most networks. We look for privilege escalation paths and misconfigurations that could hand an attacker control of your environment.
Public-facing sites are tested against common, high-impact risks, injection, broken access control and similar OWASP Top 10 issues, including authenticated and single-page applications.
Business applications often hold your most sensitive data. We test authentication, authorisation and application logic for weaknesses that scanners miss.
We don’t just test the documented APIs, recon work hunts for forgotten UAT, staging and undocumented endpoints, then validates which are genuinely exploitable against the OWASP API Top 10.
- Reconnaissance to discover undocumented APIs
- Finds forgotten UAT, staging and test endpoints
- Tests against the OWASP API Top 10
- Continuous testing, monthly, weekly or daily
- Validated findings, effectively zero false positives
APIs, including the ones nobody remembers
APIs are among the most attacked parts of any environment, and the easiest to overlook. The documented, production APIs usually get some attention. The real exposure is the ones that don’t: a UAT endpoint left reachable after testing, a staging API that was never locked down, an old version a developer forgot to retire.
These shadow APIs rarely appear in documentation, so they rarely get tested, but attackers find them. Our reconnaissance work actively hunts for what development accidentally left open or forgot about, then validates whether those endpoints are genuinely exploitable: broken authentication, injection, and horizontal or vertical privilege escalation that quietly exposes data behind the scenes.
Because APIs change constantly, we recommend continuous automated testing rather than an annual check, ongoing validation of the part of your environment attackers probe in the shadows.
Before any testing begins
- Full scope agreed in writing
- Targets, timing and rules of engagement defined
- Statement of work signed by both parties
- Authorisation confirmed for every system in scope
Scoped properly, priced to match
Penetration testing is only safe and useful when it’s scoped carefully. We always agree the full scope first and complete a statement of work before any testing starts, this protects your systems, sets clear boundaries, and makes sure the right things get tested.
Because every environment is different, pricing depends largely on scope: the number and type of targets, whether testing is one-off or continuous, and whether a specialist third party is involved. We’ll give you a clear, fixed quote once the scope is agreed.
Penetration testing is offered to Project IT managed service clients as a project alongside their ongoing support.
Penetration testing FAQs
A vulnerability scan lists potential weaknesses, often hundreds of them, with no confirmation of which are real. Our offensive security validation goes further: it safely attempts to actually exploit each weakness, using real proof-of-concept techniques. You get a short, ranked list of risks proven to be exploitable in your specific environment, with effectively zero false positives, not a long report you have to triage yourself.
Because we only report what we could actually exploit. A scanner reports everything that looks like it might be a problem, and in practice most of it isn’t exploitable in your environment, so teams waste days chasing findings that pose no real risk. By validating each one with a real proof-of-concept exploit, we hand you a focused list of genuine, critical risks you can act on straight away.
Testing is conducted carefully and within the boundaries set in the statement of work. Timing and rules of engagement are agreed with you in advance so the assessment fits around your business and avoids unnecessary disruption.
Penetration testing actively probes live systems, so it must only ever be done with clear, written authorisation. The statement of work defines exactly what is in scope, what is out of scope, and how testing will be carried out, protecting both your business and ours.
Pricing depends largely on scope, the number and type of targets, whether the test is one-off or continuous, and whether a specialist third party is involved. Once the scope is agreed we provide a clear, fixed quote before any work begins.
We scope and manage every engagement. Depending on the scope, we may engage a specialist third party to carry out or support parts of the assessment. Where that happens, it’s agreed with you as part of the statement of work, and Project IT remains your single point of contact throughout.
Infrastructure and applications are commonly tested at least once a year, or after significant change. APIs are a different case, because they change frequently and are heavily targeted, we recommend continuous automated testing rather than an annual check.
See your real, exploitable risk
Tell us what you’d like assessed, networks, endpoints, websites or APIs, and we’ll scope the work, prepare a statement of work and a clear quote, and show you the risks that genuinely need fixing first.
