Pen testing

Attack your platform before someone else does

Kubernetes and cloud native penetration testing, with red, blue and purple team formats to make your systems safer.

Generic pentests miss cloud native attack paths

The attack surface of a cloud native platform is not a list of hosts and ports. It is workload identities, cluster APIs, CI/CD pipelines, registries and cloud IAM, chained together in ways a conventional test is not designed to explore or exploit. A clean report from a generic pentest does not help identify a platform that falls to one well understood escalation chain. To successfully test a cloud native platform you need testers who work in them daily. Our penetration testing reflects how these platforms are actually compromised, and gives you a report that translates what the test finds into what your team can defend.

Pentest reports seem clean while cluster escalation paths go untested
Findings arrive without the engineering context to fix them
Detection and response have never been exercised against a realistic adversary
Security spend produces reports rather than sharper defenders

Test like the adversary, teach like a partner

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We test the paths that matter in cloud native estates, including workload escape and lateral movement, cluster API and identity abuse, pipeline and registry compromise, and the cloud boundaries of your environment. Our penetration testing engagements can be fixed-price or time-based and are scoped to meet your specific requirements.

Where it makes the most impact, we run purple team formats. Your defenders watch the attack unfold as it happens, tune detections in real time, and finish the engagement with defensive instincts that no report can deliver.

What you get

An executive summary with a clear risk narrative
Reproducible findings with the full attack path documented
Engineering-ready remediation, prioritised by real-world exploitability
Detection and response observations from purple team formats
A retest of the findings that mattered most

What good looks like

How a pen testing engagement works

Every engagement is authorised, scoped and controlled, and run with your team rather than at them. It moves through five stages, from agreeing the targets and rules of engagement to retesting the fixes that mattered most, and in purple team formats your defenders work alongside our testers throughout.

Agree targets, rules of engagement and the adversary behaviours worth simulating.
Execute the engagement across workload, cluster, pipeline and cloud boundaries.
In purple formats, attack and defence work side by side, tuning detections as the paths unfold.
Findings with full attack paths, prioritised remediation and an executive narrative.
Verify that the fixes that mattered most actually closed the paths.

The offensive research is public

Our founder co-wrote Hacking Kubernetes, the O'Reilly guide to threat-driven cloud native defence, and our consultants run capture-the-flag platforms at the industry's largest conferences.

Financial institutions use our purple team formats to sharpen detection and response around their container platforms.

Read the purple teaming case study