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Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Servers, virtualisation, containers and management planes.

Assessment of the platforms your applications run on: operating systems, virtualisation, containers, orchestration and management interfaces.

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Typical timeline
Typically 2–3 weeks
Business benefit
Harden the layer where a single weakness compromises every hosted workload.
Industries
Banking & Financial ServicesHealthcareE-CommerceIT & Cloud ServicesGovernmentManufacturing

Overview

What Infrastructure Penetration Testing covers

Infrastructure weaknesses are systemic. A weak hypervisor console or over-permissive orchestration role affects every application it hosts.

We review build standards, then verify them adversarially against running systems.

The problem we solve

Build hardening drifts over time, and management interfaces accumulate exceptions that quietly become the easiest path in.

Scope & outcomes

What we test and what you receive

Scope coverage

  • Operating system build and hardening review
  • Virtualisation and hypervisor exposure
  • Container images, runtime and registry security
  • Kubernetes RBAC, secrets and workload isolation
  • CI/CD pipeline and artefact trust
  • Backup, storage and recovery exposure
  • Monitoring, logging and management planes
  • Patch and configuration drift

Key benefits

  • Consistent, verified hardening baselines
  • Reduced container and orchestration escape risk
  • Protected management and recovery paths
  • Evidence for platform compliance requirements

Deliverables

  • Executive summary written for business stakeholders
  • Technical findings with severity, CVSS and reproduction steps
  • Evidence: requests, responses, screenshots and payloads
  • Prioritised remediation roadmap
  • Remediation support session with your engineers
  • Re-test report and closure statement

Methodology

Our assessment process

  1. 01

    Scoping and rules of engagement

  2. 02

    Reconnaissance and asset mapping

  3. 03

    Threat modeling against business context

  4. 04

    Automated scanning and coverage checks

  5. 05

    Manual exploitation and chained attack paths

  6. 06

    Impact validation and evidence capture

  7. 07

    Risk analysis and prioritisation

  8. 08

    Reporting, debrief and remediation support

  9. 09

    Re-testing of fixed findings

Tooling

Tools and techniques

Tooling supports expert manual testing — it never replaces it.

Configuration benchmark analysis
Container and image inspection tooling
Kubernetes RBAC and manifest review
Manual privilege escalation testing

FAQ

Infrastructure Penetration Testing questions

Yes — RBAC, admission control, secrets handling, network policy and workload isolation are all in scope.

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Ready to scope Infrastructure Penetration Testing?

Talk to our offensive security team about scoping an assessment around your actual risk, stack and timelines.

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