Converged
Penetration Testing
Network, facility, and people, tested as one attack surface in one engagement. Our testers chain external scanning, physical intrusion, and social engineering the way real adversaries do, then show you exactly which links broke.
External Network
Reconnaissance and exploitation of your internet-facing footprint: exposed services, stale DNS, forgotten subdomains, leaked credentials. Attackers map your perimeter continuously; we map it for you instead.
Physical Intrusion
Unannounced entry attempts against locks, readers, tailgating exposure, and after-hours controls. Every successful entry is photographed, timestamped, and tied to the control that failed.
Social Engineering
Pretext calls, phishing, and in-person approaches, scoped to your tolerance. We test the process around your people, never to humiliate them. Blame kills reporting; process fixes prevent repeats.
How an Engagement Runs
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Rules of Engagement
Scope, schedule, off-limits systems, and emergency stop authority, signed before anything begins.
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Reconnaissance
Open-source intelligence and external scanning build the same picture of your organization an adversary would assemble.
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Exploitation
Authorized attempts against the agreed scope: network footholds, physical entry, social pretexts, and the chains between them.
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Evidence & Readout
A findings report with proof for every claim, risk-ranked remediation with cost context, and an executive briefing in plain language.
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Retest
After remediation, we verify the fixes hold. The retest is included in Axe Tactical engagements.
Why test at all? Start with the business case for penetration testing, then see how attackers already view you in our external attack surface guide. For aerial threat surfaces, we also run drone penetration testing.
Common Questions
What is converged penetration testing?
A single engagement that tests your network, your facility, and your people as one attack surface, because that is how adversaries treat them. A cloned badge defeats a firewall; a phished credential defeats a fence. Testing them separately leaves the seams untested, and the seams are where breaches happen.
Is this safe and authorized?
Every engagement runs under a signed rules-of-engagement document defining scope, timing, off-limits systems, and emergency contacts. Testers carry authorization letters. Nothing is destroyed, exfiltrated data is synthetic or hashed, and findings stay under NDA.
How is this different from a vulnerability scan?
A scan lists possible weaknesses; a penetration test proves which ones an attacker can chain into actual access. Scans are included in our work, but the deliverable is demonstrated impact: here is the door we opened, here is the host we reached, here is the photo.
How often should we test?
Annually at minimum, plus after major changes: new facility, new access control system, merger, or significant network changes. Compliance frameworks and cyber insurance underwriters increasingly expect documented testing on that cadence.