Penetration Testing & Adversary Simulation
Authorised Solutioners red teams emulate the tactics of ransomware affiliates and financial crime crews, proving how resilient your controls are before criminals do.
Why Solutioners for offensive testing
Every engagement is led by Canadian and GCC-based offensive specialists who operate independently from your blue team. We align scope with regulators, insurers, and your executive risk appetite, then deliver actionable recommendations and retesting support.
- Surprise exercises keep defenders honest—no advance warning, no insider bias.
- Findings include exploit proof, business impact, and remediation priorities.
- Reports arrive ready for audit, board review, and insurer evidence packs.
Authorised rules of engagement
The testing charter grants our operators permission to:
- Escalate privileges and access data through unapproved pathways.
- Deploy safe malware simulants to verify endpoint and EDR coverage.
- Adjust configurations, manipulate workflows, or degrade availability to prove impact.
- Demonstrate potential data exfiltration channels and lateral movement routes.
Internal defenders never execute their own pen test—The Solutioners provides true third-party independence.
Seven-phase methodology
- Pre-engagement scoping and rules of engagement approval.
- Reconnaissance and intelligence gathering across open-source, network, and social domains.
- Scanning and discovery to map exposed services, identities, and misconfigurations.
- Vulnerability assessment to gain initial access through the most likely attack vectors.
- Exploitation and privilege escalation to demonstrate persistence and business impact.
- Post-exploitation reporting, evidence packaging, and executive risk analysis.
- Remediation guidance, retesting windows, and verification of fixes.
Business outcomes
- Validate whether layered security controls can resist modern ransomware crews and BEC operators.
- Prioritise remediation investment based on demonstrable attack paths and quantified risk.
- Surface real-world vulnerabilities that automated scanners miss, including chained weaknesses.
- Satisfy regulatory and contractual requirements (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, OSFI, PIPEDA) for independent assessments.
- Exercise incident response procedures under realistic pressure and identify detection gaps.
- Supply boards and executives with evidence-backed insights to guide future cyber strategy.
What the final report includes
Solutioners deliver a full executive summary, technical appendix, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, screenshots/log extracts, and a remediation tracker. We host a collaborative readout to walk through the attack path, answer stakeholder questions, and align on next steps.
Taking action after the test
Pen tests only deliver lasting value when organisations close the loop.
- Review Solutioners' after-action report with IT, security, risk, and executive stakeholders.
- Map the attack chain to MITRE ATT&CK and identify the exact control points that failed or succeeded.
- Assign owners, budgets, and deadlines to remediation tasks and schedule verification tests.
- Coordinate cross-functional changes—identity, infrastructure, application, and policy—to remove exploitable debt.
- Embed lessons learned into detection engineering, playbooks, and tabletop exercises.
Ready to engage?
Book a scoping call to define targets, compliance drivers, and success criteria.