PHASES
- External reconnaissance: DNS enumeration, cloud infrastructure mapping, dark web monitoring
- Technical assessment: Network topology analysis, wireless spectrum scanning, API endpoint discovery
- Asset inventory: Mobile application analysis, IoT device fingerprinting, third-party dependency mapping
- Threat context: Industry-specific threat intelligence integration and adversary profiling
- Automated scanning: Custom vulnerability detection, SAST, and software composition analysis
- Manual expert testing: Business logic flaws, authentication bypass, and API security
- AI-assisted discovery: Pattern recognition, risk prediction, and proof-of-concept development
- Specialized assessments: Mobile, cloud, wireless, and hardware security testing
- Initial compromise: Custom payload development, social engineering execution, multi-vector exploit chains
- Persistence & escalation: Advanced persistence mechanisms, privilege escalation, cloud identity compromise
- Lateral movement: Network pivoting, application-level traversal, cross-account access exploitation
- Impact demonstration: Data exfiltration simulation, business disruption testing, defense evasion validation
- Technical reporting: Detailed attack chain documentation, artifact evidence, custom detection rules
- Executive briefing: Business impact analysis, threat actor TTP alignment, security maturity assessment
- Operational support: Remediation workshops, detection engineering, retesting validation
- Strategic roadmap: Prioritized 3-6-12 month remediation planning with measurable success metrics
