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Web & API Penetration Testing
Manual, exploit-focused testing of your web apps, REST/GraphQL APIs, and auth flows. Chained impact, not scanner output.
Proof over paperwork
A checkbox has never stopped an attacker.
Some pentests are built for the compliance checkmark. You know real security takes more. Together, we build an assessment around your goals and environment, then go beneath the surface to expose the attack paths a checklist never sees.
AI & agent security
Do you know what your AI is doing?
Your agents hold real credentials and act without a human in the loop. We test what they can actually reach: tool abuse, prompt-injected privilege escalation, and the IAM roles nobody scoped down. You get the access map your engineers close against, not a policy memo.
vb-agent-trace --agent build-bot --replayunsupervised
>fix the failing migration test
thinking: state diverged from origin/main
plan: reset tree to a clean checkout
$rm -rf .git && git init && git push -f
[!] 1,482 commits removed: acme/payments-api
[!] force-push accepted. no approval gate.
>what did you just do?
You're right. I should not have run that.
the repo is gone. so is the audit trail.
[!] agent held write credentials to 14 repos. we test that before it ships.
Threat landscape · 2026$ vb-intel --feed 2026 --src dbir,ibm,mandiant,gtig,kev10 records
Capabilities$vb-capabilities --list --scope=all
Six ways we exercise your defenses.
[+] 6 capabilities returned
We develop assessment goals in concert with your architecture, roadmap, and controls, then test every layer against those goals, not some generic checklist.
02
External & Internal Network
Perimeter and assumed-breach engagements that trace an attacker's real path from the edge to your crown jewels.
03
Red Team Operations
Objective-based adversary emulation against a live SOC. TTPs mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, evidence at every step.
04
Cloud Security Assessment
AWS, Azure, and GCP configuration reviews with IAM privilege-escalation paths and blast-radius analysis.
05
AI & Agent Security
Prompt-injection, tool abuse, and agent privilege escalation tested against your live LLM stack — the access map, not a policy memo.
06
Continuous Assessment
Your objectives carry forward. We re-run them each quarter, track new exposure as your surface changes, and validate every fix.
Method$ vb-method --goals-first --layers auto
A list of findings tells you nothing about the security program you already paid for.
You have invested years of work and significant resources building the systems and security layers your organization depends on. Our job is not to hand you another list of findings. It is to work with your team, understand what those protections are supposed to accomplish, and prove whether they work the way you believe they do.
Written with your team
Goals come out of a working session with the people who built the system, not a template we brought with us.
Proof named up front
Every goal includes a validation approach and clear success criteria, agreed with your team before testing begins.
Tested where it lives
Unauthenticated edge, trusted and privileged user, administrative control, platform automation, cloud control plane. Your architecture decides how many layers that is.
$ vb-goals --engagement live --tail6 records
- Goal · administrative control
Evaluate whether layered controls reduce impact from a single compromised admin account.
How we validateApproval chains, secondary controls, and monitoring on high-risk actions — can one account change everything alone?
What success looks likeAbuse of a single admin account is constrained by layered controls.
- Goal · automation
Assess whether automated remediation capabilities can be triggered outside approved workflows.
How we validateDirect invocation of remediation functions, approval gates, authorization checks, and the rollback controls meant to catch it.
What success looks likeAutomation improves operations without creating uncontrolled security risk.
- Goal · platform
Determine whether worker agents, queues, or orchestration systems can be manipulated to execute attacker-controlled tasks.
How we validateQueue input validation and task authorization, malformed job submissions, and every trust assumption your workers carry.
What success looks likeInternal services reject unauthorized commands, malformed input, and trust abuse attempts.
- Goal · AI features
Evaluate whether users can abuse AI-enabled features in unintended ways.
How we validatePrompt misuse and workflow manipulation from every role, plus attempted retrieval of data the account cannot reach.
What success looks likeStandard users remain confined to their intended permissions and data scope.
- Goal · visibility
Confirm that sensitive administrative actions are logged, attributable, and reviewable.
How we validateWe trigger controlled admin events, then walk your audit trail with you to find what nobody would have seen.
What success looks likeAdministrative activity is fully auditable and attributable to specific users.
- Goal · cloud control plane
Validate that cloud identities follow least privilege and cannot easily be abused for broader access.
How we validateIAM roles, policies, and permission inheritance walked end to end, then measured against actual business need.
What success looks likeA compromise at one layer does not translate into full cloud control.
Why VAULT breach$vb-origin --show-provenance
Over a decade of getting in, now spent keeping people out.
This company was founded on the distance between those two jobs: what an attacker actually does, and what a client is handed at the end of a test. The operators who closed that gap for the government are the ones on your engagement.
[+] the habit
We learned to test where failure was not survivable.
Over a decade of offensive operations against some of the hardest targets on the planet, for U.S. agencies. You do not get to hand in a maybe. You prove access or you have nothing. That standard never came off, and it is the one every engagement we run is measured against today.
[!] the problem
Then our job was to grade what the market calls a pentest.
Hundreds of reports from names you would recognize, reviewed on behalf of a federal department, and then we tested the same systems ourselves. We kept finding what they missed. Not edge cases either. Exposed internal services, broken authentication paths, whole chains ending in full compromise, on systems that had just passed.
[✓] the answer
So we built the program that replaced them.
An entire federal department's offensive testing program, built end to end: continuous adversary emulation across 90,000+ IPs, live exposure dashboards for every component, remediation cycles pulled from weeks to hours, and the first federal framework for penetration testing AI systems.
$ vb-program --export --target=commercial
VAULT breach is that program, pointed at you.
$vb-engagement --how-it-runs[+] 3 records
[+] collaborative the whole way through
A shared channel from kickoff to closeout. You watch attack paths develop as we build them and your engineers can start closing before the engagement ends.
[+] 100% auditable testing
Every action runs through our own testing platform. Purple team findings trace back to the exact command that triggered them, and we can tell you which commands your stack never flagged at all.
[+] findings your stack can ingest
We work with your team to deliver detections, indicators, and structured evidence into your SIEM and SOAR, so the work lives in your pipeline instead of a PDF in a shared drive.
Request a scope
Ready to see what an attacker would find?
$ vb-scope --requestConfidential from the first messageYou talk to the operators