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Penetration Testing & Offensive Security

Penetration testing and offensive security reveal how real adversaries could exploit your systems, applications, and people. Forgepath uncovers hidden weaknesses, validates defenses, and helps you remediate issues before they become breaches.
Penetration Testing & Offensive Security
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The Cybersecurity Challenge
At A Glance

Cyber attackers don’t wait for vulnerabilities to be patched — they actively search for overlooked weaknesses, misconfigurations, and human errors.

Without proactive testing, organizations often have blind spots that only surface after an incident. Offensive security helps you identify these risks on your terms, not the attacker’s.

1 in 5

organizations don’t test their software for vulnerabilities, leaving exploitable gaps that attackers can abuse

81 %

of organizations display a low level of security in penetration tests — showing systemic gaps even where testing occurs

$ 4.88 M

average global cost of a data breach where the source of the breach could have been detected via security testing.

2000 %

more unique issues uncovered via manual penetration tests than automated scans

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Understand Your Security Gaps, Prioritize Risks and Improve Your Defenses

Forgepath’s offensive security services cover the full spectrum of technical, architectural, and human attack vectors — ensuring that vulnerabilities are identified and addressed across your entire environment.

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Cloud Security Assessment

Our cloud security specialists perform real-world testing of your AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments to uncover misconfigurations, weak IAM policies, and exploitable services. We help ensure your cloud infrastructure, applications, and configurations are resilient against cyber threats.

Social Engineering

We simulate the kinds of phishing, pretexting, and human-focused attacks real adversaries use to bypass technical defenses. These controlled exercises measure how well your employees can detect and respond to social engineering attempts, helping strengthen awareness and prevent breaches.

Red Team Assessment

Our red team engagements mimic sophisticated adversaries by combining tactics such as phishing, network exploitation, and exploit chaining to gain a foothold and own our target. These multi-layered exercises reveal how far an attacker could get inside your organization — and how well your defenses can detect and stop them.

AI Penetration Testing

We test artificial intelligence and machine learning systems for emerging risks such as data poisoning, prompt injection, and unauthorized model access. By probing AI applications from an attacker’s perspective, we help you safely adopt new technologies without introducing hidden vulnerabilities.

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Security Architecture Review

Our consultants review the design of your security controls, networks, and identity systems against best practices like Zero Trust. We highlight gaps in segmentation, monitoring, and policy enforcement, giving you a clear roadmap to strengthen your overall architecture.

Network Penetration Testing

We test whether your network controls are truly preventing external attacks and lateral movement between systems inside your network. By testing how attackers pivot through systems and identities, we ensure sensitive assets remain protected and your containment strategy actually works under real attack scenarios.

Wireless Security Assessment

We evaluate your wireless infrastructure for flaws such as weak encryption, rogue access points, and insecure device connections. These assessments help close gaps in your Wi-Fi security so attackers can’t use them as an entry point into your environment.

Application Security Assessment

We perform in-depth testing of your web, mobile, and API-based applications, looking for issues like injection flaws, broken authentication, and insecure design patterns. By finding and fixing these vulnerabilities before attackers do, we help protect both your business and your users.

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Seven-Step Process

Our Security Testing Methodology

Step 1

Discovery & Alignment

Establish purpose, scope, and success criteria.

Every engagement begins with open collaboration. We meet with your team to define the scope, objectives, and rules of engagement. This ensures everyone is aligned on the purpose of the test, what’s in and out of scope, and how findings will be handled. It sets the foundation for a safe and meaningful engagement.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Define scope, objectives, and success criteria
  • Establish clear rules of engagement (ROE)
  • Ensure all stakeholders are aligned
  • Set expectations for deliverables and communication
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Step 2

Threat Modeling & Test Design

Design realistic, threat-led scenarios that matter most.

With goals defined, we identify your most critical assets and likely attack paths. Using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, we model potential adversary tactics and create tailored test scenarios. This step keeps the assessment focused on real-world threats rather than generic scanning.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Identify and prioritize critical assets and data flows
  • Develop realistic attack scenarios based on threat intelligence
  • Align testing approach with business risks
  • Produce a tailored test design and threat model summary
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Step 3

Reconnaissance & Baseline

Map the attack surface and baseline controls before testing.

Before any active testing begins, we map your attack surface. Through open-source intelligence, fingerprinting, and baseline control checks, we build a picture of how attackers might view your environment. For social engineering, this includes pretext design; for cloud, it may involve posture reviews.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Map external and internal attack surfaces
  • Collect intelligence on systems, users, and configurations
  • Identify potential pretexts and attack vectors
  • Validate baseline security controls
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Step 4

Testing & Exploitation

Safely validate weaknesses and demonstrate business impact.

This phase is where we attempt to exploit weaknesses uncovered during recon. Our team uses manual techniques combined with specialized tools to validate risks. Depending on scope, this may include privilege escalation, lateral movement, or red-team style simulations within agreed boundaries.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Safely validate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
  • Demonstrate potential business impact of exploitation
  • Provide reproducible proof-of-concept evidence
  • Assess resilience of controls and monitoring systems
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Step 5

Validation, Risk Rating & Prioritization

Validate results and prioritize what reduces risk fastest.

Not every alert or vulnerability is equal. At this stage, we validate findings, remove false positives, and provide clear risk ratings. Each issue is tied to business impact so you can focus on addressing what matters most.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Confirm accuracy of all findings
  • Eliminate false positives and duplicates
  • Rate risks based on likelihood and impact
  • Prioritize remediation actions for maximum risk reduction
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Step 6

Remediation Guidance & Knowledge Transfer

Turn findings into fixes your team can implement.

We don’t just hand over a list of issues—we provide clear, actionable guidance to help your team remediate quickly. This may include root-cause analysis, configuration recommendations, code fixes, or compensating controls. We also host working sessions to ensure your team understands the path forward.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Deliver actionable remediation guidance with technical detail
  • Share secure configuration examples and references
  • Conduct working sessions with responsible teams
  • Transfer knowledge to strengthen in-house capabilities
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Step 7

Retest & Assurance

Confirm fixes, close gaps, and capture improvements.

Finally, once fixes are in place, we retest to confirm closure. This step provides assurance that risks have been resolved and highlights any remaining gaps. The result is confidence that your environment is stronger and more resilient.

Goals For this Phase:

  • Verify vulnerabilities have been remediated
  • Confirm fixes are effective and durable
  • Identify any residual or new risks
  • Provide assurance and closure validation report
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Offsec Key Benefits

What You Can Expect

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Adversary-Calibrated Findings, Not Scanner Noise

We chain weaknesses into realistic attack paths and validate exploitability by hand. You get business-impact clarity on what attackers would actually use.

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Fix-Verified Results With Re-Testing

We partner on remediation and re-test critical and high findings to confirm closure. Expect reproducible steps and clear acceptance criteria.

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Detection & Response Uplift

Each engagement highlights missed or noisy detections and gaps in playbooks. We map activity to ATT&CK and provide practical tuning guidance.

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Control Efficacy Reality-Check

We test whether preventive and detective controls across identity, network, application, cloud, and human layers work as intended. You get targeted hardening actions to cut blast radius.

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Standards-Aligned Guardrails You Can Use Now

Findings include secure-by-default patterns aligned to OWASP, CIS, or NIST. Guidance is adapted to your stack for quick adoption.

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Executive Storyboards & Next-Step Decisions

Complex chains are distilled into clear impact, ownership, budget, and quick wins. Leaders can fund the right fixes fast; teams can execute without guesswork.

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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health
Working With Forgepath

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on our network and app security tests.

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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on both our network penetration test and application security assessment.

When a critical customer need arose, they quickly adjusted their schedule to meet our urgent timeline without compromising quality.

Their technical expertise, clear guidance, and hands-on remediation support helped us meet our EOY goals efficiently.

We were especially impressed by their flexibility, responsiveness, and professionalism throughout the process.

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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com
Working With Forgepath

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner.

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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner to Parsysco. They took the time to understand our requirements and how things were working with our previous provider.

We were impressed by how quickly they formulated a new strategy and approach. They helped us identify our challenges and consistently brought forward solutions that were in Parsysco’s best interest.

Most vendors only care about selling something, Forgepath took the personal relationship and partnership approach that we value greatly.

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Are You Prepared?

Uncover the Weaknesses Before Attackers Do

Penetration testing and offensive security are the most effective ways to see your environment through an attacker’s eyes. Forgepath helps you validate real risks, strengthen defenses, and meet compliance expectations — before threats turn into breaches.
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Frequently Asked 
Questions

A penetration test targets specific systems or applications, while a red team simulates a full adversary campaign across technical, physical, and human layers.

At least annually, or after major changes. High-risk industries often test quarterly or continuously.

Testing helps meet requirements in PCI DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, FTC Safeguards Rule, and more—while also strengthening audit readiness.

Yes. We provide detailed remediation guidance and knowledge transfer to ensure vulnerabilities are resolved effectively.

Scanning identifies known issues automatically, like outdated software. Pen testing validates real-world exploitability and business impact.

Testing is designed to minimize impact. We coordinate closely with your team to avoid downtime.

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