Offensive Security
Offensive security your customers, auditors, and board will trust.
Manual, tester-led penetration testing across infrastructure, web apps, cloud, and people, with Continuous Security Assurance and scenario-led adversary simulation alongside.
Why now
Your customers, auditors, and insurers want more than a yearly snapshot.
Procurement teams ask for a pen-test report before signing. Insurers ask before renewing. Auditors want evidence between annual reviews. Boards want to know what changed since the last test. A single annual report can't answer those questions, and an enterprise PTaaS retainer is rarely the right shape either. Pentiq exists for the gap between.
Got a compliance requirement?
Findings mapped to the framework you're audited against.
Scope your engagement against a compliance framework and Pentiq maps findings to the certification driving your audit calendar, including Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, DORA, and NIS2. You walk into your assessment knowing what needs attention, mapped to the specific controls your auditor is likely to review, not buried in a 60-page PDF the auditor has to translate.
Penetration Testing: Pentiq <> Acme (PTQ-2026-0451: 1)
ExternalConfirmed IDOR on /api/v2/orders/3198. Any session token returns the record. Marking critical, reporting via portal now.
Got it. Rotating tokens now. Middleware fix deploying in 15.
Also: stored XSS in user profile bio. Less urgent, logged for retest tomorrow.
Illustrative example.
Why Pentiq
Penetration testing,
without the layers.
Pentiq is a UK penetration testing company built around a single principle: testing should be delivered by the people doing the work, not the layers between you and them. That principle decides everything we do: manual delivery, in-house consultants, direct tester access, and reports your team can hand to customers and auditors as they are.
- Manual, tester-led delivery. In-house consultants, not scanner output dressed up as a report.
- Direct tester access. Once scoped, you talk directly to the consultant doing the work, not a delivery manager relaying messages.
- Findings during testing. Critical issues raised the day they're found.
- Reports your customers, auditors, and insurers can use without translation.
- A quote within two working days, with published subscription tiers.
- Every report peer-reviewed by a senior tester before it lands.
Penetration testing
Testing across the surfaces that matter.
A snapshot of Pentiq's most requested services: manual, peer-reviewed, and accompanied by a summary your customers and auditors can use.
External Infrastructure
Internet facing servers, services, and edge devices, tested the way attackers actually approach them. Manual exploitation paired with automated discovery.
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Internal Infrastructure
Post-breach simulation across your internal estate, mapping the lateral-movement and privilege-escalation paths real attackers use to reach the crown jewels.
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Web Application & API
Authenticated and unauthenticated testing across business critical web apps and APIs, including business logic abuse, session flaws, and OWASP coverage.
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Mobile App Testing
iOS, Android, and hybrid mobile app testing across binary, runtime, transport, and local storage, including the backend APIs the app trusts more than it should.
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Cloud Security
Configuration and exposure reviews across AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365, covering identity, permissions, network paths, and the data flows between them.
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Wireless
Site survey, encryption review, and rogue-AP detection across the network that bypasses your firewall. WPA2/WPA3, RADIUS/EAP, and guest-network isolation.
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Scenario-led assurance
Test what happens when someone really comes at you.
A pen test asks 'what's exploitable?' A red team asks 'if a real attacker came at us with a clear objective, would we notice, and would they succeed?' Pentiq runs objective driven adversary simulations that measure not just your technology but the people and processes that respond when something goes wrong.
Red Team Operations
Full scope, objective driven simulations testing how your people, processes, and tools actually hold up against a determined adversary.
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Social Engineering
Phishing, vishing, and physical vector testing measuring human-factor susceptibility under controlled conditions, and giving you data your awareness programme can actually use.
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Products
Subscriptions for the security work that doesn't fit a project.
A pen test answers a question once. Three Pentiq subscriptions answer it continuously, across exposure, exploitability, and adversary readiness. Pick one, stack two, or run all three.
“What's vulnerable?”
Vulnerability Scanning
Managed CVE-mapped scanning across external and internal IPs. Recurring exposure list, prioritised, with practical remediation.
See Vulnerability Scanning →“What's actually exploitable?”
CSAS
Continuous Security Assurance across three tiers: autonomous validation, consultant review, and programme-level governance.
See CSAS →“Would we notice an attack?”
Red Team Subscription
An adversary on retainer. Quarterly scenarios across phishing-led, assumed breach, and ransomware objective remits, each with defender side debriefs.
See Red Team Subscription →12-month minimum across all subscriptions.
Sector focus
Different sector, different pressures.
Your customers want assurance. Your auditors want evidence. Your insurers want proof of resilience. The shape of those questions shifts depending on what you do, and so does the testing that answers them best. Find yours below.
SaaS & Technology
Testing designed to support customer procurement reviews, for fast moving products, cloud-native estates, and IT teams without an internal security function.
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Financial Services
Resilient external security and credible reporting for challenger banks, asset managers, fintechs, and the wider finance ecosystem outside the largest banks.
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Legal & Professional Services
Confidentiality first testing for firms whose product is trust: law, accountancy, consulting, and partnerships.
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Business Services & Operations
Manufacturing, logistics, distribution, and PE backed business services where downtime is the breach.
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Insights
Practical security perspective for IT leaders.
Vulnerability Management
CVSS 4.0 Explained: How to Prioritise Vulnerabilities Properly
Why CVSS base scores create noise, what CVSS 4.0 changes, and how to combine CVSS with KEV and EPSS for defensible vulnerability prioritisation.
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Vulnerability Management
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: How to Patch What Matters
How the CISA KEV catalogue transforms vulnerability prioritisation, where it fits alongside EPSS and CVSS, and a simple defensible workflow.
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Penetration Testing
How Often Should You Perform Penetration Testing?
Understand the factors that determine how often to schedule penetration tests, including compliance requirements, organisational complexity and change frequency.
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Get started
Talk to Pentiq about your security testing.
Whether you need a one-off pen test, ongoing external validation, or help choosing the right starting point, book a 30-minute discovery call. Scoping is fast and transparent.