Test your defenses against real-world attacks.
Instantly evaluate your cyber resilience through realistic penetration testing and attack scenarios aimed at your organization and systems.
Instantly evaluate your cyber resilience through realistic penetration testing and attack scenarios aimed at your organization and systems.
Penetration testing services are designed to emulate real-world attacks against your network, people and systems to identify and uncover critical issues within your organization’s control structure. Our seasoned team of adversarial emulation consultants and white-hat hackers will use advanced tactics, techniques and procedures to put your organization to the test.
By knowing the vulnerabilities in your environment, you can make informed decisions about mitigating and monitoring associated risks. Our penetration testing process will not just help your organization become more secure, it will improve the capabilities of your team.
For organizations seeking ongoing evaluation, our Continuous Penetration Testing delivers real-time, continuous attack simulations to quickly identify emerging vulnerabilities. If your business handles payment card data, our PCI Penetration Testing ensures compliance with PCI DSS standards while securing your cardholder data environment.
Additionally, we specialize in protecting your digital assets with tailored Web Application Penetration Testing and Mobile Penetration Testing services designed to uncover security gaps unique to these platforms.
Our penetration testing service follows the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), widely accepted and adopted as a best practice in the industry. One of the key benefits of our approach is that we bring flexibility to best meet our clients’ needs.
Our penetration testing process is designed not only to help your organization improve your cybersecurity posture but also to ensure compliance with standards requiring penetration testing (e.g., CMMC, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, FFIEC, NCUA, GLBA, FISMA, SOC2 and more).
We use a standardized process/methodology that is broadly recognized and adopted within the security testing community:
We begin by aligning on timing, objectives, scope, and approved activities. During this phase, we also assess relevant threat intelligence to tailor our approach to the unique risks facing your organization.
Our team conducts Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) to collect publicly available information about your organization. This helps identify potential entry points such as physical, digital, or human vectors that may be leveraged during testing.
We emulate real-world attacker profiles, techniques, and capabilities to assess your organization’s resilience. This process focuses on testing relevant controls and infrastructure, rather than targeting a generic IT inventory.
The team will identify potential weaknesses across systems, applications, physical infrastructure, and personnel. These may include misconfigurations, insecure design, poor physical security, or lack of awareness training. The vulnerabilities discovered here inform our exploitation strategy.
We attempt to bypass security controls and gain access to systems and resources. This phase builds on previous findings to uncover viable attack paths, focusing on those that are both high-impact and difficult to detect.
After access is gained, we evaluate the value of compromised assets and explore ways to maintain control. This includes identifying sensitive data, system settings, communication paths, and lateral movement opportunities to simulate advanced attacker behavior.
Every engagement concludes with clear, actionable deliverables. We collaborate closely with your team throughout and take pride in providing the following:
• Executive Summary
• Detailed Technical Report
• Threat Intelligence Report
• Risk-Based Recommendations
• Executive Briefing Presentation.
A successful engagement results in actionable findings and analysis. We will collaborate with you throughout the process to ensure this. We take great pride in our deliverables and will provide you with the following:
Summarizes the scope of the assessment, primary strengths, major areas for improvement, and notable recommendations.
Highlights the strengths your organization exhibited during testing and includes a graphical overview of our attack paths and discovered root causes.
The detailed section of the report also contains actionable recommendations for closing observations.
“We used Echelon Risk + Cyber for the first time to do our penetration testing this year. The experience was great as the team worked with our tight timelines and provided a thorough breakdown of what they would be doing and how long it would take. Any questions we had were answered promptly and there were no delays in the process. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a partner to perform their penetration testing.”
“Echelon Risk + Cyber has been an incredible partner from our very first implementation of a comprehensive security program to our recurring penetration test. From the start, the team has engendered trust, professionalism, and most importantly a spirit of true partnership to always help enhance our security posture. Absolutely recommend these folks for your needs!”
The right tools depend on the environment and the goal of the assessment. Vulnerability assessments often use scanners to identify known weaknesses, while penetration testing uses additional tools to validate exploitability and business impact. No single tool does it all. Strong penetration testing depends more on methodology and tester experience than any one platform.
Automated tools can help identify common vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, but they do not replace penetration testing. A real penetration test requires human validation to determine exploitability, severity, and business impact. Automated tools support the process, but experienced testers are what turn findings into meaningful risk analysis.
Ask to see a sample report, understand their methodology, and confirm what happens after the report is delivered. A strong penetration testing partner should validate findings, explain business risk, and provide actionable remediation guidance. The best firms do more than deliver a PDF. They help your team understand what matters and what to do next.
Because these systems support sensitive processes, testing must balance security with safety and uptime. Effective ICS testing depends more on controlled methodology, fundamental networking knowledge and operational awareness than any single tool.
Cloud security testing often uses tools like ScoutSuite, RoadTools, RoadRecon, and Pacu to identify misconfigurations, exposed services, and privilege escalation paths. These tools are useful for identifying common cloud risks, but tools alone are not enough. Effective cloud penetration testing depends on validating findings and tying them to real business risk.
A penetration test is a point-in-time engagement, but what happens after the test is where most firms fall short. Echelon's difference is our people. Our testers take the time to make sure your team walks away from the readout with a real understanding of what was found, why it matters, and a clear path to fixing it. Any firm can run a test and hand over a PDF. Echelon makes sure the findings actually lead somewhere, with practical remediation guidance and experts you can call when the way forward isn't obvious.
Active Directory testing often uses tools like NetExec, Impacket, Certipy, Rubeus, Bloodhound and Responder to evaluate identity exposures and attack paths. Each tool supports a specific part of testing, from password attacks to privilege escalation. Strong Active Directory testing comes from using the right tools with the right methodology.
A vulnerability assessment identifies known weaknesses like missing patches, outdated software, and common misconfigurations. A penetration test goes further by actively chaining together vulnerabilities into exploits to validate real risk, and business impact. Vulnerability assessments show what might be wrong. Penetration testing proves what actually matters.
Modern penetration testing is increasingly focused on cloud environments, identity-based attacks, SaaS abuse, and AI-related risks. Organizations are placing more value on testing real attack paths instead of isolated vulnerabilities. The focus has shifted from simply finding issues to validating impact and improving resilience.
A cloud penetration test typically focuses on misconfigurations, access control weaknesses, exposed services, and identity risk. Depending on scope, testing may include Identity management related tests, storage review, credential attacks, and detection validation. The goal is to identify real weaknesses and provide clear, actionable remediation guidance.