External Penetration Testing
Simulate real-world attacks against your internet-facing assets before threat actors find a breach point.
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Atgardas External Penetration Testing simulates real-world cyberattacks targeting your publicly accessible infrastructure. This includes websites, APIs, cloud services, VPN gateways, and any internet-facing systems that attackers can discover.
Our ethical hackers use advanced reconnaissance, exploitation techniques, and threat intelligence to identify vulnerabilities before malicious actors do. We go beyond automated scans by manually validating findings and chaining vulnerabilities to demonstrate real-world impact.
Each engagement delivers a detailed report with proof-of-concept exploits, business impact analysis, and prioritized remediation steps. We also provide retesting to ensure vulnerabilities are fully resolved.
Key Benefits & Deliverables
Attack Surface Discovery
Thorough mapping of your external perimeter to identify forgotten assets, exposed services, and shadow IT infrastructure.
Manual Privilege Exploitation
Chaining vulnerabilities to demonstrate real-world risk, moving beyond automated scanning to prove what an attacker could actually accomplish.
Actionable Risk Prioritization
Clear, developer-friendly remediation guidance that scores risks based on their potential business impact.
Engagement Process
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Harvesting public data, leaked credentials, and network intelligence to inform attack strategies.
Vulnerability Identification
Mapping discovered assets against known CVEs and advanced zero-day exploitation models.
Active Exploitation
Safe, authorized breach simulation targeting exposed VPNs, firewalls, routing infrastructure, and web portals.
Reporting & Retesting
Delivery of findings followed by a formal validation phase to ensure all patches hold.
Frequently Asked Questions
It simulates attacks from outside your organization to identify vulnerabilities in internet-facing systems.
Websites, servers, APIs, cloud services, and external networks.
At least annually or after major infrastructure changes.
No, penetration testing includes manual exploitation and real attack simulation.
We coordinate to ensure minimal disruption.
Yes, with prioritized fixes and risk ratings.
Yes, retesting is included or optional.
Yes, including OWASP, PTES, and NIST guidelines.
Often required for PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and others.
Usually 1–3 weeks depending on scope.
See What a Real Finding Looks Like
Download a redacted example from past engagements to understand our reporting methodology, risk scoring, and remediation guidance.
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