AI-augmented · Senior-led offensive security

AI flags what’s possible. Operators prove what’s real.

AI maps your attack surface at machine scale. Then senior operators reproduce, chain, and rank every finding by hand. You get proof and a prioritized fix list — never a scanner dump, never an unverified “AI critical.”

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100% human-reproduced before delivery· 24–72h to first validated finding

Diagram: a cyan machine field on the left surfaces many faint candidate signals; at a luminous seam a senior operator verifies a few into proven findings on the right, shown in amber, and discards the rest.

Vulnerabilities responsibly disclosed to

  • Google
  • Anthropic
  • American Express
  • Under Armour
  • Naver
  • Cursor
  • CodeRabbit
  • Mintlify
  • Imena & more
Diagram: holding one tenant’s session, an operator changes one object id to another tenant’s record; a request that should return 403 returns 200 with data they don’t own — an IDOR, proven.
01 / The problem

A scanner dump isn’t a pentest. An unverified “AI critical” isn’t proof.

Scanners and autonomous agents produce volume — candidate “criticals,” confidence scores, false positives. That’s a backlog, not a verdict.

02 / Method

Two temperatures. One handoff.

The machine drafts at scale; the operator decides. That one handoff is the whole method.

Machine layer · recon at scale

Your attack surface is bigger than your findings list. The machine enumerates every candidate — the operator proves the few that are real.

A slowly rotating sphere densely covered in faint cyan dots represents the hundreds of candidate assets and endpoints the machine enumerates across a target’s external attack surface. A recon sweep circles the sphere; a small, steady handful of dots ignite amber — the few a senior operator has reproduced and proved real. Illustrative data, not real client assets.

Machine layer · AI

  • maps the attack surface
  • enumerates assets & endpoints
  • flags candidate weaknesses
  • scores its own confidence
  • runs continuously, at machine scale

Operator layer · human

  • reproduces every candidate by hand
  • builds the working exploit
  • chains findings to real impact
  • drops the false positives
  • ranks by business risk

Autonomous tools give you one layer — the machine. We give you two — the machine, plus a senior operator who proves its work. That operator is the guarantee the tools removed.

Live verification queue: the recon engine surfaces seven candidate findings; a senior operator verifies four of them by hand (shown in amber, including one chained to critical) and drops three false positives.

03 / Services

What we test.

Six practice areas, each run machine-plus-operator.

Web & API / AppSec

Full-depth testing of web apps and APIs: authentication and access control, business logic, injection, session handling — beyond any scanner’s reach.

machine + operator

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, GCP, Azure and hybrid estates: IAM paths, misconfigurations, lateral movement, privilege escalation — proven, not presumed.

machine + operator

External & Network

Your perimeter as an attacker sees it: exposed services, forgotten hosts, exploitable network paths.

machine + operator

Red Team & Adversary Simulation

Objective-driven campaigns that test detection and response, not just prevention.

operator-led

Mobile

iOS and Android: client-side storage, transport security, API trust, platform-specific abuse.

operator-led

LLM & AI Application Security

Prompt injection, unsafe agent tool-use, data-exfiltration paths, and the access controls around your model — tested by operators who build with these systems daily.

machine + operator

04 / Process

Six steps, scope to sign-off.

Senior-led throughout — and we re-test your fixes before anything is called resolved. Only step two is the machine’s.

Engagement phases in order, scope to sign-off. Step two is machine-run; every other step is operator-led.
#PhaseActorWhat happens
01ScopeoperatorA senior operator scopes the engagement with you — targets, rules, goals.
02Recon & mapAIOur AI enumerates and maps your attack surface at machine scale.
03Verify & exploitoperatorOperators reproduce each candidate by hand and build working exploits.
04Impact analysisoperatorFindings are chained and ranked by real business impact — not raw CVSS.
05ReportoperatorProof, reproduction steps, and a prioritized fix list — written by the operator who did the work.
06Retest & sign-offoperatorFree fix re-test within 30 days. The engagement closes with a human sign-off.
05 / Proof

What a finding looks like when it’s real.

Diagram: three low-severity findings — an open redirect, an unvalidated OAuth state parameter, and a token leaked in a URL fragment — chain into an account takeover an operator proved end-to-end.
Finding PS-SAMPLE-01 Sev High · CVSS 8.1

IDOR in export endpoint, chained to cross-tenant data access.

Target:

Verification log

  • m 03:12 candidate surfaced by recon model — export endpoint accepts arbitrary object id
  • o 09:47 reproduced by hand — 3 steps, cross-tenant read confirmed
  • o 11:02 chained: id enumeration → bulk export → tenant data

Reproduction

  1. POST /api/v2/export {"object_id":""}
  2. swap object_id for another tenant’s id
  3. response returns foreign-tenant records — full export

Impact

Any authenticated user could export another organization’s records. Ranked HIGH: direct data exposure, trivial to script, no privileged access required.

Fix

Enforce object-level authorization on every export path; verify tenant binding server-side. Re-tested and confirmed closed at step 06.

Verified · reproduced by hand Operator note — the scanner saw one exposed id; we proved it drained a tenant.

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06 / Commitments

What we promise, and what we won’t.

0%
of findings reproduced by a senior operator before delivery
24–72h
to first validated finding
0-day
free fix re-test on every engagement

Testing aligned with: OWASP ASVS · OWASP Top 10 · NIST SP 800-115 · PCI DSS Supports your SOC 2 & ISO 27001 evidence.

Built for teams in FinTech, SaaS, Healthcare, Crypto & Web3, and the public sector.

07 / Contact

Brief a senior operator.

Tell us what you’re building and what you need tested. Our team — not sales — replies within one business day.

  • A senior operator scopes the work with you — NDA on request.
  • A 30-minute call, no obligation and no sales script.
  • A clear quote and timeline before any testing begins.

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