Penetration Testing services
Cube Cyber's penetration testing puts skilled attackers, on your side, against your environment: network, web application, cloud, wireless and social engineering testing, delivered by senior testers including OSCP-certified practitioners. Findings arrive prioritised by real business risk, with reproduction steps and remediation guidance written for the engineers who have to fix them, walked through in a live debrief and verified by retest.
Scope A Penetration Test
Penetration tests get commissioned for reasons that deserve better than a commodity scan:
Annually at minimum for most environments, and always after significant change, a new customer-facing application, infrastructure moves, major cloud adoption or an acquisition. The other strong trigger is stakes: before a product launch, ahead of a certification or regulatory review, or when a customer's security questionnaire asks for your latest test report and the honest answer is older than you would like. If the last report is gathering dust because nobody could action it, that is a testing-quality problem, and worth fixing before the next cycle.
Core capabilities & deliverables
Network penetration testing
External and internal infrastructure testing, what an attacker can reach from the internet, and what they can do once inside, including lateral movement, privilege escalation and the paths to the assets that matter.
Web application and API testing
Manual, methodology-driven testing of applications and APIs against OWASP standards, authentication, authorisation, business logic and injection classes, the flaws automated scanners structurally miss.
Cloud penetration testing
Testing of cloud environments and configurations, identity and permission abuse, exposed services, storage and workload compromise, within each platform's rules of engagement.
Wireless and social engineering
Wireless security assessment, and phishing and pretext campaigns that measure how your people and processes hold up, run constructively, the goal is resilience, not embarrassment.
OT-aware testing
Testing in and around operational technology using OT-safe methods, with more than 10 years' OT experience determining what can be tested actively, what must be assessed passively, and what should never be touched in production.
Reporting, debrief and retest
Risk-prioritised findings with reproduction steps and specific remediation guidance, an executive narrative for leadership, a live debrief with the testers, and retesting to verify fixes, included, because an unverified fix is a hope.
Every test follows a four-stage discipline:
Scope
Objectives, targets, constraints and rules of engagement agreed with the people who own the environment, so testing is safe, legal and aimed at the risks that matter.
Test
Manual, methodology-driven testing with continuous communication, and immediate escalation of critical exposures, if we find a door wide open, you hear about it that day, not in the report.
Report and debri
Findings prioritised by business risk rather than raw severity score, walked through with technical teams and executives separately.
Retest
Verification of remediation, closing the loop with evidence that the exposure is gone.
Testing aligns to recognised methodologies including OWASP (web and API), PTES and MITRE ATT&CK, and supports obligations under ISO 27001, the ASD Essential Eight and ISM, APRA expectations and SOCI. Scoping distinguishes clearly between penetration testing, vulnerability assessment and red teaming, so you buy the engagement you actually need.
ISO 27001
SOCIAPRAFrequently asked questions
A scan is automated and finds known weaknesses by signature; a penetration test is human-led, chaining weaknesses, bypassing controls and demonstrating real impact. Scans are hygiene and belong in a vulnerability management program; tests tell you what an actual attacker could achieve. If a proposal is priced like a scan and titled like a test, it is a scan.
It scales with scope: the size and complexity of the environment or application, testing depth, and whether retesting and debriefs are included, they are in ours. We scope precisely and quote fixed for the agreed scope, and we are direct when a smaller scope would deliver most of the value.
Typically one to three weeks of testing for a focused scope, an external network or a single application, longer for broad internal engagements, plus reporting and debrief. Retesting follows once you have remediated, on your timeline.
Rules of engagement exist precisely to prevent that: testing windows, excluded systems and escalation contacts are agreed up front, destructive techniques are used only by explicit agreement in isolated environments, and OT is tested with OT-safe methods. Disruption caused by a tester is a failed test.
Senior Cube Cyber practitioners, including OSCP-certified testers, the people who scope the engagement do the work, and they are in the debrief answering your engineers' questions. Testing is not subcontracted out or delegated down.
Fix by risk order, not finding count, the debrief identifies the handful of findings that change your real exposure. Then retest to verify, feed systemic findings into architecture decisions rather than patching symptoms annually, and keep the report handy: customers, insurers and auditors will ask for evidence of testing and remediation.
Yes, with methods built for them. Active exploitation is not run against live control systems or clinical devices; instead we combine passive assessment, testing of representative or non-production systems, and careful boundary testing of the networks around them, drawing on more than 10 years of OT experience. The result is real assurance without operational risk, in environments where availability is the first security property.
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