Uncover vulnerabilities across people, processes, and technology.
Ancore’s Penetration Testing Services identify security weaknesses across networks, applications, wireless, IoT, and user environments to help prevent breaches.
How Ancore’s Penetration Testing Strengthens Your Business
The best way to understand how attackers target your systems is to simulate real-world attacks under controlled conditions. Ancore’s Penetration Testing Services reveal actual risks across networks, applications, wireless, IoT, and people, showing where you are most vulnerable and how to fix it before a breach occurs.
Our Methodology
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Establish rules of engagement, target systems, and success criteria based on your threat model. Align scenarios with industry-specific adversaries, regulatory demands, and operational constraints to ensure relevance and safety.
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Conduct passive and active reconnaissance to profile your attack surface, including network topology, employee behaviors, and third-party integrations. Build a realistic adversary intelligence dossier mirroring nation-state or criminal operations.
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Launch coordinated assaults across digital, physical, and social vectors, employing custom exploits, phishing campaigns, and insider simulations. Adapt tactics in real-time to bypass detections and escalate privileges undetected.
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Measure detection rates, response times, and containment effectiveness during simulated dwell periods. Document pivot points, lateral movements, and exfiltration attempts to reveal true defensive maturity.
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Facilitate a joint tabletop review of findings, then retest remediations to confirm closure. Quantify improvements in metrics like mean time to detect and overall resilience posture.
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Integrate exercise insights into your security operations center workflows. Provide maturity benchmarks and phased recommendations to evolve defenses against emerging threats.
How it works
Discovery
We build a comprehensive asset inventory through initial reconnaissance. We catalogue all external and internal systems, applications, network perimeters, and user entry points. Attack surfaces, authentication mechanisms, third-party integrations, and baseline security configurations are mapped.
Output: Attack surface report, asset inventory, reconnaissance findings, initial vulnerability indicators.
Assessment
We run vulnerability scanning and manual reconnaissance across your environment. We evaluate web application flaws, network protocol weaknesses, misconfigurations, and authentication bypasses. SQL injection, XSS, insecure APIs, and weak encryption are tested and prioritised by exploitability.
Output: Vulnerability assessment report, scored findings, proof-of-concepts, high-priority test targets.
Exploitation
Controlled exploitation is executed using ethical hacking techniques and custom tooling. Live attempts against web apps, APIs, databases, and network services are performed. Privilege escalations, lateral movement, and persistence mechanisms are simulated and validated against OWASP Top 10.
Output: Exploitation reports, successful attack chains, evidence captures, impact demonstrations, containment recommendations.
Reporting
We deliver an actionable penetration test report with remediation roadmaps, configuration hardening guidance, and secure development practices. Executive summaries, technical findings, and retesting criteria are established and handed over.
Output: Full pentest report, remediation roadmap, detection capabilities, secure coding guidelines.
Penetration Testing. Expert-led, structured approach.
Controlled testing of your systems, applications, and network to find vulnerabilities before someone else does. You get a complete asset discovery, threat assessment, exploitation validation, and a roadmap to fix critical issues.
- Business risk assessment across financial, data, regulatory, and operational impact
- Vulnerability discovery and prioritization across all systems and services
- Attack chain documentation with proof of concepts and impact demonstrations
- Full pentest report with executive summary and technical findings
- Remediation roadmap with hardening guidance and retesting criteria
$990
one-timeWhat it costs
Case Study
Securing the client portal of a global EdTech intelligence platform.
Read the full case study →1 Critical
Client data exposure vulnerability identified and prioritised for immediate remediation
9 High/Medium
Additional vulnerabilities across web apps, APIs, and authentication systems
4-week roadmap
Structured remediation plan delivered with retesting criteria
Benefits of Ancore’s Penetration Testing Service
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Read →Frequently Asked Questions
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Penetration testing is a controlled simulation of real-world cyber attacks against an organisation's systems to identify exploitable vulnerabilities before malicious actors can take advantage of them. Ancore's penetration testing covers networks, applications, wireless environments, IoT devices, and user-facing entry points - revealing where you are most vulnerable and providing actionable remediation guidance to close those gaps.
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Ancore delivers three core outputs: an executive penetration test report highlighting critical risks, business impacts, and strategic recommendations for leadership; technical vulnerability details with in-depth documentation of exploits, proof-of-concept code, and step-by-step reproduction instructions for IT teams; and a remediation verification certificate issued after retesting confirmed fixes, certifying successful closure of all identified vulnerabilities.
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vulnerability scan is an automated tool that identifies known weaknesses in systems and software. A penetration test goes further - it uses manual techniques, custom tooling, and real-world attack simulation to determine whether vulnerabilities are actually exploitable and what an attacker could achieve by chaining them together. Ancore combines both automated scanning and expert-driven manual exploitation to provide a realistic assessment of your actual risk exposure.
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This service is best suited for CISOs, IT leaders, and engineering teams at growth-stage businesses that need to validate the security of their applications, networks, and infrastructure - whether for compliance requirements, pre-launch security assurance, investor due diligence, or ongoing risk management. It's also used by organisations preparing for certifications like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or ISO 27001.
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Penetration testing generates documented evidence that supports certifications and compliance requirements including PCI-DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR. Ancore's reporting is structured to satisfy the evidence requirements of these frameworks, with executive summaries for auditors and technical detail for remediation teams.