PENETRATION TESTING SERVICES IN THE UK
Uncover the unknowns in your environment in order to prepare and defend against cyber attacks. Cyphere is a leading UK cyber security company offering independent penetration testing services. Secure your business by identifying, analysing and mitigating cyber vulnerabilities.
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What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing is a technical cybersecurity exercise aimed at finding weaknesses in a company’s internal and external networks, applications or systems. This cybersecurity assurance is provided against an organisation’s assets.
By utilising ethical hacking services to identify these security flaws, businesses are able to find out the extent to which their assets (people, process and technology) are exploitable and can then take the necessary steps to reduce the risk. This type of security testing is much more about manual approach and targeted to find vulnerabilities in real world scenarios outside the reach of vulnerability scanners or a vulnerability assessment (See the difference in FAQ section below).
Our technical security assessment services are tailored to help your business stand against a real cyber attack.

Benefits of Penetration Testing
- Protect your business against evolving threats
- Create a proactive approach to cyber security
- PCI DSS, ISO 27001, GDPR Compliance support
- Service quality underpins everything we do
- Demonstrate cyber security commitment
- Helps shape IT strategy
Experienced team to understand your concerns
Common Security Vulnerabilities
Lack of Secure Hardening
Insecure Patch Management
Active Directory Vulnerabilities
Insecure Logging & Monitoring Controls
Logging and monitoring controls are reviewed to identify flaws in event collection, analysis and threat identification.
Programming Errors
Encryption Flaws
Authentication Vulnerabilities
Insecure Password Controls
Sensitive Information Storage Practices
OWASP Top 10 Application & API Flaws
OWASP pen test Top 10 flaws such as authorisation, input validation, injection issues such as Cross site scripting, SQL injection, XXE, session management & encryption vulnerabilities. Similarly, OWASP API top ten flaws are also included as part of our testing methodology.
Types of Penetration Testing Services
There are many different types of security services offering different benefits and uses. Our pen testing services cover a broad spectrum of domains such as cloud, wireless, mobile, stealth campaigns, phishing, IoT, external & internal networks, social engineering and solutions. Call us to find more.
Network Penetration Testing
Network Penetration Testing
Internal & External Network pen test services cover multiple scopes ranging from single build reviews, segregation reviews to network-wide assessments such as active directory or a cyber health check.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Our team of Cybersecurity experts will test and perform security testing for all your web applications.
It includes source code reviews, threat modelling and database security assessments.
Cloud Penetration Testing
Most organizations are migrating to cloud due to ease of use and 24 x 7 availability.
As an end user of cloud hosted solution, it is your responsibility to ensure that the security of any operating systems and applications hosted in the cloud are continuously maintained and tested.
Cyber Attack Simulation
Cyber Attack Simulations (Red teaming, Blue , Purple Team, Spear Phishing) are designed with multi-step attack scenarios to check how defensive controls react during a real time attack. Compared to security testing, this is all out assessment of a company’s defensive assets and much wider scope.
Mobile App Penetration Testing
Ensuring the safety and security of user data is paramount to running any mobile applications. Our tailored services are designed to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities before it’s too late.
Bespoke Security Reviews
This comprehensive cybersecurity audit covers supply chain risk, M&A due diligence, IoT and a range of advanced penetration testing scenarios and bespoke projects that can be tailored for the security needs of your company. Remote working security assessment falls under this category.
Cyber Attack Simulation
Cyber Attack Simulations (Red teaming, Blue , Purple Team, Spear Phishing) are designed with multi-step attack scenarios to check how defensive controls react during a real time attack. Compared to pen testing, this is all out assessment of a company's defensive assets and much wider scope.
Mobile App Penetration Testing
Ensuring the safety and security of user data is paramount to running any mobile applications. Our tailored services are designed to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities before it’s too late.
Bespoke Security Reviews
This comprehensive cybersecurity audit covers supply chain risk, M&A due diligence, IoT and a range of advanced penetration testing scenarios and bespoke projects that can be tailored for the security needs of your company. Remote working security assessment falls under this category.
Penetration Testing Methodology
Pen testing methodology defines the depth and breadth of how and on what basis test cases are generated. Cyphere’s pentesting engagement methodology , also known as Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT), is broken down into five phases:.
- Initial Scoping & Objectives Agreement : This is a conversational phase to go through pain points/primary security concerns and discuss on the assets in scope, out of scope and the objectives for the security test. Communication protocols, fragile components, third party service providers authorisation, pre-requisites and planning falls into this phase.
- Reconnaissance : Recon process involves collecting information about the target network, application, systems or devices as much as possible. This sets the ground for attack layout preparation.
- Scanning : This is an activity aimed at finding what services (such as email services, web services hosting applications, file transfer services/protocols) are running on each of the targets in scope. Activities such as network mapping, service enumeration, vulnerability scans are part of this phase.
- Exploitation : Vulnerability exploitation phase involves exploiting the identified vulnerabilities to measure the extent of breach of a security vulnerability. It is performed in a controlled manner, keeping in view the fragility of the assets ins cope and agreed objectives. Password testing (cracking & analysis) , vulnerability research, lateral movement, post-exploitation activities belong to this section.
- Reporting : This is amongst the most important parts of any security test. Information must make sense to customers investing their time and resources. All our reports include raw data, supporting screenshots, tactical and strategic recommendations, management reports and technical reports. There is a debrief call at the end of every security assessment to ensure customer has understanding of the findings and have a remediation plan in mind.
- Remediation : This is an optional remediation consultancy to help mitigate risks identified during penetration testing. Due to security skill-set and environment complexities faced by organisations, our approach involves risk focussed approach towards risk remediation.

Frequently Asked Questions
What is a penetration test?
What is the main objective of a penetration test?
What are the different types of pen test services?
Three different penetration test types are black box (without prior knowledge), grey box (with some knowledge) and white box (with all prior knowledge) assessments. See our extensive pen testing blog article for details.
What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a pen test?
A vulnerability assessment takes automated approach useful to identify low level hanging fruits such as missing patches or common vulnerabilities, it does not cover in-depth reviews of an asset.
A penetration test (using manual approach) goes a step further by safely exploiting the identified weaknesses, establishing if they are not just false positives and uncovers flaws such as business logic issues that are otherwise uncovered during an automated test.
What is your penetration testing methodology?
For pen tests, our methodology encompasses OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 20 Critical Controls and CIS, NIST 800-115. Any other standards needed for specific projects can be included as per customer request. See our pen test blog post for detailed article on penetration testing.
Which penetration testing tools are used?
How long it takes to conduct a pentest?
What is a cyber security health check?
Is pen testing disruptive to our environment?
Can you perform pen test remotely?
What happens after the pentesting?
Do you perform pen test remediation?
Our Engagement Approach
Customer Business Insight
Services Proposal
Execution and Delivery
Cyphere’s approach to all work involves excellent communication before and during the execution phase. Customer communication medium and frequency are mutually agreed, and relevant parties are kept updated throughout the engagement duration.
Data Analysis & Reporting
Debrief & Support
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