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Network Penetration Testing
Uncover exploitable vulnerabilities, points of compromise and hidden attack paths across your internal and external networks.
Network Security Assurance
OnDefend network penetration testing simulates how attackers move inside your environment, escalate privileges, access sensitive systems, and bypass controls. This gives your team validated evidence of risk and clear steps to strengthen resilience across internal and external network layers, as well as supporting compliance requirements for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and other regulatory frameworks.
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Network Environments Tested for Real-World Risk
External Network Penetration Testing
External network penetration testing identifies vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposed services in internet-facing systems. This assessment helps organizations understand their external attack surface and validates the effectiveness of perimeter security controls against real-world cyber threats.
Internal Network Penetration Testing
Internal network penetration testing evaluates vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and excessive privileges within internal networks after initial compromise. This testing assesses lateral movement risk and confirms that internal network security controls effectively protect critical systems and sensitive data.
Wireless, VPN, and Remote Access Penetration Testing
Wireless, VPN, and remote access penetration testing identifies weaknesses in Wi-Fi security, remote access services, authentication mechanisms, and network segmentation. This testing validates secure remote connectivity and ensures access controls prevent unauthorized entry into the enterprise network.
Active Directory Penetration Testing
Active directory penetration testing assesses domain configurations, authentication of workflows, privilege relationships, and trust boundaries. This testing identifies paths for privilege escalation and lateral movement while validating the security of identity and access management controls across the network.
AI-powered adversaries don’t exploit vulnerabilities.
They exploit attack paths.
AI-powered adversaries exploit more than vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. They chain together hidden risks like exploitable designs, security control failures, and novel attack techniques to reach critical assets. The goal is no longer finding every weakness, but breaking attack paths with the fewest high-impact fixes.
Reconnaissance
Attack Surface Mapped
Exploit
Initial Access
Misconfiguration Exploited
PIVOT
Privilege Escalation
Exploitable Design Abused
Chain
Exploitation
Low-Severity Finding Chained
exploit
Lateral Movement
Novel Technique Executed
bypass
Defense Evasion
Security Controls Defeated
Lateral
Impact
Critical Asset Compromised
Traditional pen tests and vulnerability scanners find these
What AI-powered adversaries find and chain into attack paths
Giving You The Competitive Advantage
OnDefend gives you a decisive advantage over adversaries by combining elite offensive operators, deep enterprise network expertise, and intelligence-driven security validation that reflects real-world attacker behavior.
Elite Offensive Operators
Our testing is led by deeply experienced network offensive security practitioners with advanced certifications in network penetration testing and offensive security. Our team specializes in acting like a persistent adversary to protect your organization from a real one.
Intelligence-Driven Testing
Testing is guided by a blend of external and proprietary threat intelligence, focusing on the most relevant attacker techniques, emerging threats, and high-impact paths to compromise.
AI- and Automation Enhanced Coverage
AI-driven automation and advanced analytics extend coverage across complex enterprise networks, expanding discovery of exposed services, trust relationships, segmentation failures, and lateral movement paths at scale.
Continuous Testing Capabilities
Automation and analytics enable ongoing validation as networks evolve, our team is able to gain efficiencies with every assessment. Maintaining visibility into new exposures introduced by infrastructure changes, device additions, or configuration drift.
Executive and Technical Reporting
Clear reporting delivers prioritized, actionable findings for security teams while translating technical risk into business-level insights, aligning remediation efforts to both operational impact and business risk.
Beyond Compliance Validation
Testing aligns with NIST 800-115, PTES, and relevant network security guidance while validating real-world exploitability, demonstrating whether network controls actually prevent compromise beyond compliance requirements.
Our Team
Partners with Yours
Our team partners with yours to gain a deep understanding of your environment and objectives so you receive clear communication, expert guidance, and actionable insight that ensures outcomes align with your security and business goals.
Network Penetration Testing FAQs
What’s the difference between a vulnerability scan and a penetration test?
A vulnerability scan identifies potential weaknesses. A penetration test validates exploitability and demonstrates real attacker impact.
What is the difference between network penetration testing and the OnDefend’s CSI program?
Network penetration testing is a point-in-time assessment that finds exploitable weaknesses in your internal and external network.
The OnDefend Continuous Security Inspector (CSI) program provides continuous adversarial validation that uncovers hidden risks traditional testing misses, including covert backdoors, insecure configurations, lateral movement paths, and emerging supply-chain exposure. Penetration testing shows current vulnerabilities. OnDefend CSI shows ongoing real-world exposure.
How often should network penetration testing be performed?
Most organizations test annually or after major infrastructure changes, deployments, or security incidents.
Do you test both on premises and cloud hosted networks?
Yes. We test physical, virtual, hybrid, and cloud connected networks including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and other third-party cloud providers.
Will penetration testing disrupt operations?
No. Testing is coordinated with your team and executed safely within defined rules of engagement.
Can you retest to confirm vulnerabilities were fixed?
Yes. Optional retesting verifies that issues have been resolved and that risk is fully addressed.
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