Enable your organisation to anticipate and defend against emerging cyberattacks, staying one step ahead of potential adversaries.

Penetration Testing

Independent, highly technical and quality penetration testing to enhance your cybersecurity posture and protect critical assets.

Our penetration testing services use the latest techniques:

  • Challenge your organisation’s existing security defences

  • Identify networks and systems unprotected against common threats and vulnerabilities

  • Validate and quantify the effectiveness of current security controls

  • Highlight areas for further improvement

Comprehensive

We provide testing for on premise systems, cloud, code, databases, desktop, firewalls, mobile, OT, IoT, physical sites and more.

Human Led

Our experts analyse your business environment and risk profile, finding unique and unknown vulnerabilities.

Thorough

Our range of inspection techniques and testing strategies ensure gaps are found quickly.

Complete

We assess your people, processes and procedures for complete confidence.

Our Pentesting Principles

At Cyconsol we’re really thorough. We can test all aspects of your systems no matter where they reside or what level of technical proficiency they require. We go beyond automated tools, to use human-led testing to identify the weaknesses in your systems.

Our testers come from diverse backgrounds and can help identify critical vulnerabilities in your systems.

Cyconsol’s Penetration Testing services are designed
to help Australian organisations
become more secure in these eight ways:

Identify Vulnerabilities
Pentesting helps uncover weaknesses in your systems, networks, or applications before malicious actors exploit them. This proactive approach reduces the risk of security breaches.

Strengthen Defences
By exposing potential entry points, you can implement stronger security measures and patch vulnerabilities, ensuring better protection against evolving threats.

Ensure Compliance
Many industries require regular security assessments to meet regulatory and legal requirements (e.g., PCI DSS, CPS 234, IRAP). Pentesting provides evidence of compliance.

Boost Stakeholder Confidence
Regular pentesting demonstrates your commitment to cybersecurity, reassuring your clients, customers, and stakeholders that their data and operations are secure.

Protect Critical Data
Pentesting helps safeguard sensitive information, including customer data, intellectual property, and financial records, by identifying areas prone to data breaches or unauthorised access.

Evaluate Incident Response
Our Red Team service simulates real-world attack scenarios, testing the effectiveness of your organisation’s incident response plans. We prepare your teams to react swiftly and mitigate damage during an actual attack.

Reduce Business Risks
By identifying and resolving vulnerabilities, pentesting reducing the risk of operational disruption, reputational damage, and financial losses associated with cyber incidents.

Prioritise Remediation
Pentesting provides actionable insights into the most critical vulnerabilities, helping you allocate resources effectively to address high-risk areas.

Helping you manage risk

Pentesting helps you identify and address vulnerabilities and weaknessses with your environment enabling you to manage your overall risk.

This can be achieved through:

  • Identification of security weaknesses

  • Quantification and qualification of vulnerabilities

  • Application of appropriate mitigating controls or fixes

  • Actionable insights to improve your security posture

Improve your cyber posture with Penetration Testing

FAQs

  • Organisations looking to strengthen their cyber defences use pentesting to assess their systems, networks and access methods. These include:

    • Businesses handling sensitive data: Companies dealing with financial information, medical records, or personally identifiable information (PII) benefit significantly from pen testing to ensure their systems are secure against potential breaches.

    • Compliance-driven industries: Industries such as finance, healthcare, or government often have strict regulatory requirements like PCI DSS, SOCI, or the Privacy Act. Pentesting helps meet these standards and demonstrate proactive security measures.

    • Organisations deploying new applications or systems: Before going live, pentesting can identify vulnerabilities in applications, networks, or systems and allow for fixes to be applied prior to release.

    • Companies aiming to boost customer trust: Businesses concerned about their reputation or customer trust perform pentests to show their commitment to protecting user data.

    • Critical infrastructure sectors: SoNS (Systems of National Significance) require regular vulnerability assessments to ensure compliance requirements.

  • Our testing methodology is based on industry-accepted standards and frameworks, such as the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) test guides, Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES), Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) System Hardening Guide, and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

    We utilise the industry standard Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) for rating findings. 

  • Our staff have been performing high-quality, high-impact security services in the industry for over 25 combined years of experience. We have worked on a vast range of high-profile engagements with household names, affecting millions of Australians. These engagements have required both technical excellence and a different mindset for successful outcomes.

    We are 100% Australian owned and are purely focused on helping to solve some of the most complex problems faced by Australians. We’ve performed pentesting services for:

    • Critical Infrastructure

    • Defence Partners

    • Private industry

    • Financial Regulators

    • Health Industry

    • State and Federal Governments

    We tailor our engagements to suit our client's needs, with a strong focus on delivering high-quality outcomes. Our staff have a proud reputation for quality work - this is core to our company values.

  • The frequency of penetration testing depends on several factors, but as a general guideline:

    • At least annually: Most organisations perform pen testing once a year to ensure their defences are up-to-date against evolving threats.

    • After major changes: Anytime there’s a significant update to your network, applications, or systems—such as introducing new software, implementing infrastructure changes, or modifying security measures—pen testing should follow.

    • When compliance requires it: Regulatory standards like PCI DSS mandate regular testing and sometimes specify the frequency, so organisations need to adhere to those requirements.

    • Whenever new vulnerabilities are discovered: If there’s evidence of a potential security weakness or after a cyberattack, immediate pen testing can help assess and fix the issues.

    • Data or service risk-based approach: High-risk industries or organisations with sensitive data might test quarterly or even monthly, while lower-risk entities might lean toward annual testing.

The Cyconsol Advantage

Independent advice based on the specific needs and requirements of our clients.

Top quality professionals with experience - we wont recommend unnecessary and expensive work.

Up to date with Cloud Services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google infrastructure and Microsoft Azure technologies.

Align your security priorities with your business need - some systems matter more than others.

Extensive understanding of E8, ISM and PSPF, among others, and an ability to uplift your cyber posture.

Knowledge of new and emerging threats and able to translate technical risks to the business context.