Coverage-led
Systematically examine agreed interfaces, roles and controls to understand what has and has not been assessed.
OUR APPROACH
Start with the right questions.
Before testing, we map the attack surface and develop hypotheses around the assets, roles and workflows that matter. The result is a plan for meaningful coverage and a clearer account of its limits.
SECURITY TEST MAP
Know what is being tested, and why.
A Security Test Map connects an entry point or workflow with an actor, asset, trust boundary, security hypothesis, priority and coverage status. Its level of detail depends on the agreed scope; it is a planning and reporting tool, not a claim that every possible weakness has been found.
Risk-led
Prioritize flows connected to sensitive data, privileged actions, financial operations and consequential changes of state.
Adversary-led
Follow plausible paths toward an agreed objective, including the relationship between weaknesses across multiple steps.
For example, a payment webhook may prompt hypotheses about source verification, replay and unauthorized state changes.
THE ENGAGEMENT
From discovery to validation.
01
Discovery & authorization
Understand the business context, permitted environments, constraints and authorization for testing.
02
Attack surface mapping
Identify interfaces, assets, actors, sensitive flows, dependencies and trust boundaries relevant to the engagement.
03
Scope & test planning
Agree on in-scope and excluded targets, depth, hypotheses, operating rules and deliverables before active testing.
04
Security assessment
Investigate the agreed hypotheses through manual analysis and controlled automation, documenting evidence and limitations.
05
Technical & executive reporting
Explain findings, business impact and remediation alongside what was tested and what was not.
06
Remediation validation
Where included in the agreement, verify changes against the reported findings and document their status.
Standards as references, not a badge.
Depending on the engagement, test planning can draw on the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, OWASP API Security Top 10, OWASP ASVS and PTES where relevant. These references structure our test planning; they are not a certification.
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