Cyber Security Testing
Infrastructure Security Testing
Server, endpoint, directory service and network device hardening assessment.
Every engagement includes manual validation, a two audience report and free re-testing.
Get a scoped quote+91 96682 00222What this actually is
Infrastructure testing answers a question that is surprisingly hard to answer from an asset register. If someone got onto your network, what would they find, and how much of the estate is held together by defaults nobody changed.
We assess servers, hypervisors, directory services, databases and network devices against hardening benchmarks and against practical exploitability. A missing patch matters less than a service account that is domain admin because it was easier that way in 2019.
The output is a prioritised hardening plan, not a vulnerability dump. Anyone can hand you ten thousand scanner findings. The work is telling you which forty actually matter.
What we go after
- Server and operating system hardening against CIS benchmarks
- Active Directory configuration, delegation and privilege paths
- Database configuration, authentication and encryption
- Hypervisor and virtualisation platform security
- Network device and firewall rule base review
- Patch currency and end of life exposure
- Backup security and restore integrity
- Service account and credential hygiene
How we run it
- 01
Scope and authorise
Targets, testing windows, escalation contacts and safety limits, all agreed in writing before anyone touches anything.
- 02
Map the surface
We enumerate what is actually exposed, which is usually more than the asset register says.
- 03
Test by hand
Tooling gives coverage, our engineers give proof. Every finding is reproduced before it is written down.
- 04
Report
An executive narrative your board can act on, and a technical annexe with the exact request, payload and fix.
- 05
Re-test and sign off
Once you have fixed it we verify each one at no extra cost, then close the engagement properly.
What you receive
- Hardening gap report against CIS benchmarks
- Prioritised remediation plan ranked by exploitability
- Configuration baselines you can apply going forward
- Executive summary of estate-wide risk
- Free re-test of remediated systems
Who needs this
Organisations with an on-premise or hybrid estate, especially after a merger, a migration, or a period where infrastructure grew faster than anyone documented.
How long it takes
One to three weeks depending on estate size.
Standards this satisfies
- CIS Benchmarks
- ISO 27001
- CERT-In
- PCI DSS
- RBI
Why it matters
Testing exists to answer a question somebody outside your team is asking: a customer, an insurer, a regulator, or a board that wants to know whether the money spent on security bought anything. A scan report does not answer it. A test that names what was verified, to what depth and against which standard does.
The second reason is more practical. Controls decay. Configurations drift, integrations get added under deadline, and the environment you tested last year is not the one running today. Testing is how you find out which of your assumptions stopped being true.
Choose the depth you actually need
Most of the price difference between quotes comes down to this one choice, and it is rarely explained. Pick one to see what it covers, what it suits and what it costs you.
You give us working accounts at each privilege level and a short walkthrough. We then test what a real attacker reaches after the first stolen password, which is where the findings that matter almost always live. This is what we recommend for most engagements.
Choose this when
- Any application with authenticated functionality
- Multi-tenant products, where tenant isolation is the real risk
- Getting the most findings for the money
Effort and cost
Moderate effort and by far the best coverage per rupee. Most of the serious findings we report come out of authenticated testing rather than unauthenticated.
Method aligned to PTES and NIST SP 800-115
Infrastructure testing follows the Penetration Testing Execution Standard and NIST SP 800-115, so the phases and the evidence are recognisable to any assessor who picks up the report, and two tests a year measure the same thing.
Scope it yourself, before you call anyone
Answer a few questions and you get an indicative number, the working behind it and what your answers tell us. It runs in your browser, so nothing you type reaches us.
What needs testing?
Pick everything in scope. Effort is driven by unique functionality, not by how many IP addresses you own.
What we look for, and keep finding
These are the classes of problem this work exists to surface. Not every engagement finds all of them, but these are the ones that turn up often enough to be worth naming.
Exposed management interfaces
Administrative panels, database ports and remote access services reachable from places they should not be. Usually the result of a firewall rule added for a project and never removed.
Weak and reused credentials
Default passwords still in place, service accounts sharing a password across systems, and credentials that survive in scripts and scheduled tasks long after the person who wrote them left.
Missing patches on reachable services
We prioritise by what is actually reachable and actually exploitable rather than by scanner severity, because a critical on an unreachable host matters less than a medium on your perimeter.
Flat internal networks
Once inside, an attacker can reach everything. We test lateral movement explicitly: from a compromised workstation, what can we get to, and how long does it take.
Active Directory weaknesses
Kerberoastable accounts, unconstrained delegation, excessive privilege and stale administrative groups. Domain escalation is usually a chain of small misconfigurations rather than one flaw.
Who runs your engagement
A senior tester, named before you sign
Testing is led by an engineer holding OSCP, CREST or equivalent, and you are told who it is before the engagement starts. They write the report themselves rather than handing notes to someone else, and they are on the call when findings are walked through. If the person changes, we tell you why.
Questions we get asked
How is this different from a network penetration test?
A pentest asks how far an attacker gets. This asks whether the estate is configured to a defensible standard in the first place. Most clients do both, and they find different things.
Will you need admin access?
For a configuration review, yes, read-level access to the systems in scope. It produces far more accurate findings than guessing from the outside.
Often scoped alongside
- Web Application Security TestingOWASP-aligned manual and automated testing of web applications, with validated proof-of-concept for every finding.Read more
- Mobile Apps Security TestingAndroid and iOS binary, runtime and API-layer assessment against OWASP MASVS.Read more
- Network Penetration TestingInternal and external network exploitation, lateral movement and privilege escalation testing.Read more
- API Security TestingAuthentication, authorisation, rate-limiting and business-logic testing across REST, GraphQL and gRPC.Read more
Ready to scope your infrastructure security testing?
Thirty minutes with a senior engineer, and you leave with a written scope and indicative effort.