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Penetration Testing

We attack your business before someone else does.

Automated scans find what a scanner knows to look for. Our testers find what an adversary would — the chained misconfiguration, the forgotten subdomain, the trust between systems nobody diagrammed. Scoped, executed, and reported to a standard your insurer will accept.

Lead-to-quote. Scoped to your environment on a call — never bought from a checkout page.

Engagement snapshotGMAN IT
Scope → Exploit → ReportEvery engagement, the same rigour
EnquireScoped engagement, ex-GST
Written + verbalFindings delivered both ways
Lead-to-quoteScoped before it's priced
Why a scanner isn't enough

A vulnerability scan tells you what’s exposed. Not what’s exploitable.

Automated tools flag missing patches and known CVEs. They don't chain a low-severity misconfiguration in your VPN to a forgotten admin account to your finance server, the way an adversary actually would. That chain is what a penetration test is built to find.

How GMAN protects

A discipline, not a checklist.

Every engagement runs to the same standard, whether it's a web application, your network, or your cloud tenancy.

  1. 01

    We scope to your real environment

    Every test starts with a scoping call: what's in bounds, what's off-limits, and what result matters to your business — not a generic checklist.

  2. 02

    We test the way an adversary would

    Manual exploitation and chaining of findings, not just automated signature-matching against known CVEs.

  3. 03

    We stop before we break anything live

    Exploitation is controlled and agreed in advance. We prove access is possible without taking down production.

  4. 04

    We report so your board can act

    Findings are ranked by real-world impact with a verbal walkthrough, not a document that gets filed and forgotten.

What’s deployed

6 controls. One accountable partner.

Every line below is deployed, monitored, and maintained by us — not a part-time attention split across your other vendors.

Deployed and maintained by us

Penetration Testing — Inclusions Ledger

  1. Scoping call & signed rules of engagementEvery engagement is defined before any testing begins — no surprises on what's in or out of bounds.
  2. External & internal attack-surface mappingWe map what's reachable the way an adversary would, before ever attempting exploitation.
  3. Manual exploitation & finding-chainingNot a scanner report — a demonstrated path from a low-severity gap to real business impact.
  4. Written report ranked by real-world impactFindings ordered by what actually matters to your business, not by a generic severity score.
  5. Verbal walkthrough with your teamWe explain what we found and why it matters, in language your team and your board can use.
  6. One retest once remediation is completeWe confirm the fix held — the same standard your insurer or your auditor will expect.
Engagement methodology
The signature peak

The rigour behind every engagement.

Four phases, the same on every test. Open a phase to see exactly what it delivers.

Operational security excellence

We don't describe the work. We show it.

Case file · Manufacturing · Regional Victoria · redacted

One forgotten test server. Full domain compromise.

  • A forgotten staging server, still reachable from the internet, ran six-month-old software.
  • A default credential on that server led to a service account with domain-admin rights.
  • From there, every file server and the production-control network were reachable.

The finding was closed within 48 hours of the report landing. The client's insurer required proof of remediation — we provided the retest.

Read the full file

The complete teardown — every gap found and closed — sent to your inbox. No call required.

One email, the file, nothing else. We don't sell lists — discretion is the work.

Know what an adversary would find — before one goes looking.

A Cyber Risk Assessment shows exactly where you stand, and what it takes to close it. Credited toward your first year of protection.