UK-based · penetration testing & red team operations
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Forefront IT Security ServicesEvery finding is proven by hand and demonstrated end to end, you get reproducible evidence of real business impact, not a scanner export dressed up as a report.
Anyone can forward a scanner export. We prove every finding by hand and answer the only question your business actually cares about, so what could an attacker really do with this?
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Manually verified
Every finding is validated by hand and demonstrated with a proof-of-concept where possible. No unverified scanner output, no false positives padding the report.
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So what?
For each vulnerability we establish the real-world consequence: what it actually lets an attacker do, rather than leaning on a raw CVSS score in isolation.
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Chained into impact
Individually low-rated issues are chained into a viable attack path that reaches something that matters: domain compromise, sensitive data, or business disruption.
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Built into a risk picture
Findings are cross-referenced through the report and framed as a clear risk picture of likelihood against impact, in the language your CISSP- and CISM-qualified stakeholders already use.
Every test follows the same disciplined cycle, and because a point-in-time test always ages, it feeds straight into continuous validation rather than ending at the report.
Scope & Plan
Targets, rules of engagement and objectives agreed online.
Reconnaissance
Passive and active mapping of the attack surface.
Enumeration
Services, versions and weaknesses identified and validated.
Exploitation
Controlled, manual exploitation to prove real impact.
Post-Exploitation
Privilege escalation, lateral movement and reach assessed.
Reporting
Risk-rated findings, proof-of-concepts and prioritised fixes.
Retest & Validate
Free retest of critical and high findings, then continuous validation.
A penetration test is an authorised, controlled attack against your systems, carried out by experienced consultants who think and work the way a genuine adversary does. The goal is not a printout from a scanner, it is a clear, evidenced answer to the question every board eventually asks: if someone targeted us today, what could they actually reach, and how bad would it be?
Forefront testing is manual-led. We use industry-standard tooling to map your attack surface quickly, then work by hand to probe authentication, authorisation, business logic and trust relationships, the flaws that automation reliably misses. Every engagement is scoped to your environment and delivered against recognised methodologies: the OWASP Testing Guide and OWASP API Security Top 10 for applications, and PTES and NCSC guidance for infrastructure.
Findings are rated by real-world risk, not raw CVSS, and written up in plain English with reproduction steps your engineers can follow. Where it adds value, we back the test with AETOS so newly published CVEs and configuration drift are picked up continuously between engagements, turning a point-in-time test into ongoing assurance rather than a report that ages the day after delivery.
Internet-facing infrastructure assessed as a remote attacker would: service and version enumeration, exposed management interfaces, VPN and remote-access gateways, weak credentials and known CVEs, with controlled exploitation to prove real impact.
Assume-breach assessment of lateral movement and privilege escalation. Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, ACL and delegation abuse, and the realistic paths from a standard user to Domain Admin, surfaced through full attack-path analysis.
Full manual testing to the OWASP Testing Guide: injection, cross-site scripting, IDOR and broken access control, authentication and session handling, and the business-logic flaws scanners cannot reason about.
REST, SOAP and GraphQL assessed to the OWASP API Security Top 10: broken object- and function-level authorisation (BOLA/BFLA), mass assignment, token handling, rate limiting and data over-exposure.
iOS and Android apps tested to OWASP MASVS/MASTG, insecure storage, certificate-pinning bypass, runtime manipulation and transport security, alongside the back-end services they depend on.
Beyond configuration review: testing Microsoft 365, Azure and AWS for exploitable identity, privilege-escalation and data-exposure paths, plus infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), container and Kubernetes review, and CI/CD pipeline security to catch weaknesses before they reach production.
WPA2-Enterprise and WPA3 wireless, guest and corporate segmentation, plus gold-build and server hardening reviews measured against CIS Benchmarks to close configuration gaps at source.
Every engagement is delivered to be acted on, by your board and your engineers alike.
An executive summary that frames risk for leadership in business terms, with an overall posture rating
A detailed technical report: every finding rated by real-world risk with clear, prioritised remediation steps
Step-by-step proof-of-concept evidence and screenshots so engineers can reproduce and verify each issue
A consultant debrief to walk your team through the findings and answer questions directly
A free remediation retest of critical and high findings, typically within 30 days, to confirm your fixes hold and update finding status
Findings tracked, triaged and managed over time in the AETOS portal
A scan tells you which known signatures match your systems; it cannot reason about business logic, chain weaknesses together or prove what an attacker could actually achieve. Our testing is manual-led: we exploit and combine issues by hand to show real impact, and every reported finding is validated to remove the false positives scanners are notorious for.
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