Human Led
Senior security expertise
Penetration Testing
Find what can actually be exploited.
Senior-led, adversary-informed security testing across applications, APIs, infrastructure and cloud environments.
We test beyond scanner output to determine how weaknesses can be combined, exploited and used to affect the systems and data that matter. Every engagement is controlled, evidence-driven and aligned to your requirements, constraints and risk.
Discuss Your RequirementsReal attack paths.
Real evidence.
A more secure tomorrow.
Evidence First
Reproducible findings
Controlled Execution
Client-defined boundaries
Verified Closure
Retest what matters
What We Test
Comprehensive coverage across the environments and attack surfaces that matter to your organisation.
Tailored to Your Risk
Applications & APIs
Web applications, APIs and supporting services, including authentication, authorization, input processing and business logic.
External & Internal Infrastructure
Exposed and internal systems, networks, services and trust relationships.
Cloud & Identity
Cloud services, permissions, secrets, identity relationships and configuration weaknesses.
Authentication & Access Control
Identity flows, MFA, account recovery, privilege transitions and trust-boundary enforcement.
Business Logic & Workflows
How your application actually works, looking for ways valid functionality can be abused.
High-Risk Scenarios
Testing designed around your critical systems, transactions, roles and failure conditions.
How We Test
A structured approach, adapted to your environment.
Disciplined. Adaptive. Effective.
- 01
Understand
Establish objectives, scope, constraints and success criteria.
- 02
Map
Identify attack surface, roles, data flows and realistic attacker paths.
- 03
Test
Manual techniques, specialist tooling and AI-assisted analysis where it adds value.
- 04
Validate
Confirm exploitability and real-world impact with reproducible evidence.
- 05
Report
Clear findings, technical detail, business context and practical guidance.
- 06
Support
Remediation guidance and retest to verify closure.
More Than Vulnerability Scanning
Automated tools are useful for coverage. They are not the engagement.
Black Bag Security combines automation with human reasoning to investigate attack paths, authorization failures, business-logic weaknesses and environment-specific conditions that scanners alone can miss. Tools accelerate the process. Senior practitioners remain responsible for analysis, validation and conclusions.
Evidence That Engineering Teams Can Use
Technical Findings
Clear description, affected assets, prerequisites, exploit path and impact.
Reproducible Evidence
Requests, responses, screenshots, logs and supporting material.
Risk Context
Severity based on exploitability, exposure and business impact.
Executive Summary
Concise view of what matters and what requires action.
Remediation Guidance
Practical corrective direction for engineering teams.
Retest & Verified Closure
Focused validation with updated evidence.
Engagements Built Around the Requirement
White-box, grey-box or black-box testing — selected according to your objective.
Where source code, architecture, test identities or engineering context are available, we use them when doing so increases assurance. Where the requirement is to understand what an external attacker can discover unaided, we preserve that constraint. Testing can be focused on a release, a particular workflow, a defined environment, a compliance requirement, or a broader security-assurance objective.
Methodology Without Checkbox Testing
Structured where standards help. Adaptive where real systems require it.
Testing plans can be informed by established guidance such as the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG), OWASP API Security, PTES and other engagement-appropriate methodologies, while remaining driven by the actual application, architecture, threat model and client requirements.
Test the environment that matters.
Tell us what needs assurance, what cannot be disrupted, and what an attacker must not be able to achieve.
We will build the engagement around those requirements.