Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT)
Move beyond automated vulnerability lists. Our VAPT engagements combine disciplined vulnerability discovery with manual penetration testing to demonstrate real-world exploitability and business impact.
What We Examine
Automated vulnerability scanners generate thousands of uncontextualized alerts while frequently missing business-logic flaws, chained misconfigurations, and privilege escalation paths. Conversely, purely ad-hoc testing can overlook systematic patching gaps across broad infrastructure.
Elegant Infosec integrates structured Vulnerability Assessment (VA) with manual Penetration Testing (PT). Under formal authorization and strict rules of engagement, our security consultants identify weaknesses across your external perimeter, internal networks, and application endpoints—validating which vulnerabilities can actually be exploited and how they could be chained to compromise critical assets.
Why Organizations Engage Us
Scanner noise vs. real exploitability
Engineering teams waste cycles triaging false positives or low-risk alerts while chained lateral-movement pathways remain unaddressed.
Evolving attack surfaces
Continuous software releases, cloud migrations, and perimeter changes introduce new exposures between annual check-the-box tests.
Enterprise client & contractual mandates
B2B enterprise customers and financial counterparties routinely require evidence of recent, independent VAPT assessments and closure reports.
Verifying defense-in-depth efficacy
Organizations need empirical assurance that firewalls, segmentation controls, and endpoint detections actually impede an active attacker.
Technical Boundaries & Control Layers
External Perimeter Assessment
- Public-facing IP ranges, perimeter routers, VPN concentrators, and mail gateways
- Exposed management interfaces, TLS/cryptographic weaknesses, and DNS hygiene
- Perimeter breach simulation and credential exposure analysis
Internal Network Penetration Testing
- Assumed-breach internal network testing and lateral movement evaluation
- Active Directory / identity privilege escalation paths and Kerberos/NTLM weaknesses
- Network segmentation bypass testing between user, server, and restricted VLANs
Application & Service Layer Testing
- Web portals, REST/GraphQL APIs, and microservice endpoints within VAPT scope
- Authentication bypass, session flaws, and privilege boundary testing
- Unpatched CVE exploitation validation under safe rules of engagement
Examination Protocol
Enumerate the authorized attack surface
Map live hosts, open ports, running services, protocol banners, and application entry points across all designated targets.
Identify candidate weaknesses and false-positive filtering
Correlate service versions, configuration anomalies, and known advisories while manually validating scanner output to remove false positives.
Validate exploitability and attack chaining
Safely attempt exploitation of identified weaknesses to determine achievable access levels, lateral movement potential, and data exposure risk.
Deliver reproduction evidence and verify fixes
Provide step-by-step proof-of-concept documentation, architectural remediation advice, and post-remediation re-testing.
Evidence & Reporting Outputs
Executive VAPT Assurance Summary
High-level risk overview, attack-path narratives, and severity distribution designed for leadership and enterprise stakeholder sharing.
Comprehensive Technical VAPT Report
Full technical breakdown including affected assets, CVSS v3.1/v4.0 scores, contextual business risk ratings, step-by-step PoC evidence, and remediation instructions.
Remediation Re-Testing & Closure Certificate/Addendum
Updated assessment report issued after re-testing remediated findings, documenting closed, partially mitigated, or accepted risks.
Referenced Security Frameworks
Guides engagement scoping, intelligence gathering, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and reporting.
Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment methodology alignment.
Used to map adversary tactics, techniques, and application-layer exploitation vectors.
Common Procurement Questions
What is the difference between black-box, grey-box, and white-box VAPT?
Black-box testing simulates an unauthenticated external attacker with minimal prior knowledge. Grey-box testing provides standard user credentials or internal network access to simulate an assumed breach or insider threat—often delivering the highest return on time. White-box testing includes full architecture documentation, configurations, or source access for maximum depth.
Is penetration testing safe for production environments?
We design our Rules of Engagement specifically to protect system availability. Destructive payloads, denial-of-service (DoS) testing, and automated brute-forcing against production authentication stores are excluded unless explicitly requested in an isolated staging environment.
Is a re-test included in VAPT engagements?
Yes. Every standard VAPT engagement includes a structured remediation validation window so your team can verify that applied patches and configuration changes have fully resolved the reported findings.
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WHAT ARE YOU MISSING?
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