Offensive security · defensive security · cyber risk
Find the weakness. Before someone else does.
How would an attacker see your business? We test the systems adversaries actually target, then help turn findings into measurable security improvements.
- Web apps
- Mobile apps
- APIs
- Cloud
- Networks
- IoT
- People
- Third parties
Attack like an adversary. Defend like an operator.
Security is not a checkbox.
A clean report describes one moment. Everything underneath it keeps moving, which is why a single annual test tells you less than it appears to.
- Applications change
- Cloud infrastructure changes
- Employees change
- Attack techniques change
- Dependencies change
- Regulations change
- New vulnerabilities appear
So security has to be continuous testing, monitoring and improvement — not an annual event that produces a PDF.
Think like an attacker. Build like a defender.
A red team engagement produces two stories at once. The gap between them is the finding that actually matters.
What an adversary works through to reach an objective.
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Reconnaissance
What is publicly discoverable about you.
- 02
Exposure
Which of it is actually reachable from the internet.
- 03
Initial access
The first foothold, simulated within agreed scope.
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Privilege
Whether that foothold can become something more.
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Lateral movement
How far it travels once inside.
- 06
Objective
The agreed goal — proof, not damage.
Purple team closes the loop: attack findings become defensive improvements, then we test the same paths again.
Nine domains. One programme.
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Application security
Web, mobile, API and source code — the surface most businesses expose first.
Web applications
Authentication, authorisation, session security, input validation, business logic, access control, file upload, injection and misconfiguration testing, aligned with OWASP methodology.
Mobile applications
Android and iOS, mobile APIs, local storage, cryptography, network security, runtime behaviour, certificate validation and API authorisation.
APIs
Authentication, object-level authorisation, rate limiting, token security, business logic, REST and GraphQL.
Source code review
Secure coding, authentication and authorisation flaws, injection, secrets, cryptographic issues, dependency risk and business logic.
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Cyber risk
Turning technical findings into something a board can act on.
Assessment
Cyber risk assessment, asset classification, threat assessment, vulnerability prioritisation and risk scoring.
Programme
Risk registers, mitigation plans, security roadmaps and continuous risk monitoring.
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Cloud security
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud — audit, hardening and workload security.
Audit
IAM, network architecture, storage, secrets, logging, monitoring, security groups, firewalls, public exposure, encryption and configuration.
Hardening
IAM hardening, least privilege, network segmentation, secure storage, key management and secure defaults.
Containers
Docker and Kubernetes security, image and dependency scanning, runtime security, secrets management, RBAC, network policies, pod security and supply chain.
Servers
Linux and Windows hardening, SSH, firewalls, patch management, access control, service exposure, logging and backup security.
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Industrial security
IoT, OT, ICS and SCADA — where a security test can affect physical operations.
IoT
Device security, firmware analysis, API testing and communication security.
OT and ICS
OT security assessment, industrial network review, segmentation, control-system security and industrial protocol security.
Safety first
Industrial testing prioritises safety and operational continuity. Methodology is adapted for production environments rather than borrowed from IT testing.
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Data privacy
GDPR, PDPL, privacy audits and governance support.
Compliance support
Compliance assessment, privacy controls, data mapping and privacy processes for GDPR and PDPL requirements.
Privacy audits
Data inventory, data flows, access, retention, processing and third parties.
Governance
DPO-as-a-service where appropriate: advisory, documentation, monitoring and compliance support, plus staff privacy training.
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Incident response
Planning before, containment during, and forensics after.
Response
Incident response planning, rapid response, containment, recovery support and post-incident assessment.
Forensics
Digital forensic analysis, endpoint investigation, log analysis, timeline reconstruction, malware investigation and root-cause analysis.
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Threat simulation
Red team, purple team, phishing and adversary simulation.
Simulation
Red teaming, purple team exercises, phishing and social engineering simulations, adversary simulation and attack surface analysis.
Validation
Security control validation and detection testing against agreed objectives.
People
Authorised simulations measure phishing resilience, awareness, reporting behaviour and escalation. The goal is a resilience measurement, not embarrassing employees.
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Managed security
Security that continues after the report is delivered.
Recurring testing
Managed VAPT, continuous or scheduled vulnerability scanning and proactive threat hunting.
Operations
Security monitoring and operational support.
Virtual CISO
Security strategy, roadmap, risk management, policy, governance, compliance, security architecture, vendor security, incident readiness and executive reporting — without hiring a full-time CISO.
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Security training
Awareness, incident readiness and compliance training.
Awareness
Security basics, passwords, MFA, phishing, social engineering and data handling.
Readiness
Incident identification, escalation, response roles and tabletop exercises, plus controlled threat simulation workshops.
Compliance
ISO 27001, GDPR, privacy and internal security policies.
Find it. Prove it. Fix it.
A finding nobody validated is a guess, and a finding nobody retested is unfinished. The cycle only closes at the last step.
- Discover
- Enumerate
- Test
- Validate
- Document
- Remediate
- Retest
- Web
- Mobile
- API
- Network
- Cloud
- Wireless
- External infrastructure
- Internal infrastructure
- E-commerce
Authorised security testing only
Every engagement runs inside an agreed scope with written authorisation and rules of engagement. That applies to red teaming, social engineering and phishing simulation in particular. We do not publish operational exploit instructions, and we do not test anything nobody asked us to.
- Explicit written authorisation
- Defined scope
- Agreed objectives
- Safety boundaries
- Data handling rules
- Responsible reporting
What happens if we think like your adversary?
A penetration test asks whether a system has vulnerabilities. A red team asks whether someone could reach a specific objective — and whether you would notice. Those are different questions with different answers.
- Reconnaissance
- Attack surface mapping
- Initial access simulation
- Credential attack simulation
- Social engineering
- Phishing simulation
- Privilege escalation
- Lateral movement
- Persistence simulation
- Defence evasion simulation
- Objective-based attack paths
- Detection testing
- Security control validation
Methodology stays high level in public. The detail belongs in a scoped engagement and a report with your name on it, not on a marketing page.
You can't protect what you don't know exists.
Most breaches start at something nobody remembered owning. Attack surface work is the unglamorous part that finds it first.
- Public internet
- Discovery
- Asset inventory
- Risk ranking
- Remediation
- Domains
- Subdomains
- IP ranges
- Cloud assets
- Public applications
- APIs
- Exposed services
- Certificates
- Technology fingerprints
- Third-party assets
- Public repositories
- Credential exposure
- Shadow IT indicators
Exposure monitoring watches for organisational credentials, domain and brand mentions and data-exposure indicators. It is threat intelligence, not a claim to see everything that has ever leaked.
Security from code to production.
- Code
- CI/CD
- Security gates
- Cloud
- Production
- Monitoring
Security engineering
Security that lives in the pipeline rather than arriving at the end as a blocker.
- Secure SDLC
- DevSecOps
- SAST
- DAST
- SCA
- Secrets scanning
- Dependency management
- Container scanning
- IaC security
- Vulnerability management
AI security
A model with tool access is a new attack surface with new failure modes, and prompt injection is only the first one.
- LLM security assessment
- Prompt injection testing
- RAG security
- Agent security
- Model access control
- Data leakage assessment
- AI API security
- AI governance
E-commerce security
Your checkout is a target, and so is every plugin sitting next to it.
- Storefront
- Admin panels
- Payment flow
- Customer accounts
- Plugins and themes
- Third-party apps
- Webhooks
- Order manipulation
- Business logic
Design security before incidents
Security spans the whole architecture — identity, application, API, data, infrastructure and monitoring. Retrofitting it after an incident costs considerably more.
- Zero Trust principles
- IAM
- Segmentation
- API security
- Cloud architecture
- Application architecture
- Data protection
- Security controls
Where are you now?
Most organisations are somewhere in the middle and know it. Pick the closest description to see what usually comes next.
Unknown
Little visibility into what exists, what is exposed, or what has already happened.
Start with attack surface discovery and an asset inventory. You cannot protect what you have not enumerated.
Build the next levelTooling and frameworks.
We align assessments and programmes with the relevant frameworks and requirements. Alignment is not certification — we do not claim that CometByte or a client is certified against any of these.
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A report isn't the finish line.
- 01
Discover
What exists, what is exposed, what matters to the business.
- 02
Scope
Objectives, boundaries, authorisation and rules of engagement.
- 03
Assess
Architecture, configuration and controls reviewed before testing.
- 04
Test
The agreed surface, using the methodology the scope calls for.
- 05
Validate
Findings proven rather than reported from a scanner output.
- 06
Report
Executive view and technical view, written for two audiences.
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Remediate
Guidance your engineers can act on, prioritised by real impact.
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Retest
Confirmation the fix works and nothing new broke around it.
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Monitor
Because the environment starts changing again immediately.
Findings are useless without action
A finding an executive cannot weigh and an engineer cannot fix has not helped anyone. Reports separate the two views on purpose.
- Executive summary
- Technical findings
- Severity
- Business impact
- Evidence
- Affected assets
- Remediation guidance
- Prioritisation
- Retest status
Security is not hoping nothing happens.
Tell us what you're protecting, what you're worried about, what you're building and what compliance requires. We'll work out what should be tested, where the risk is, what matters most and what needs fixing first.
- What you protect
- What worries you
- What you are building
- What compliance requires
