Network & Infrastructure Penetration Testing
Perimeter, segmentation, lateral movement. We find the path an attacker would take before they do.
Networks fail at their boundaries
The weak point in a network is rarely a single unpatched box — it's the seam where two things that were never designed together meet. Cloud meets on-prem. One acquired subsidiary meets another. A firewall rule from three years ago meets a network that's grown well past what it was written for. CyberMindX engagements are built around finding those seams and showing, concretely, what happens if someone stands on the wrong side of them.
An external engagement asks what's visible and exploitable from outside your walls, nothing more. An internal one starts from the assumption that someone's already past the front door — a phished employee, a stolen laptop, an insider — and asks how far that gets them toward the systems that actually matter. Either way, you get a picture of the route taken, host-by-host findings along it, and a fix list ordered by what your compliance framework will actually ask about.
How we run a network engagement
Scope & Rules of Engagement
Which IP ranges and hosts are fair game, when we're allowed to test, how aggressive we can be, and what makes us stop immediately — all agreed and signed before anything starts.
External Enumeration
We start with what's publicly visible — certificate records, DNS, search-engine footprints — then move to actively scanning for open ports, live services, and the specific edge devices sitting on your perimeter.
Internal Pivot & Lateral Movement
Starting from a low-privilege foothold, we work out the shortest realistic route through your internal network to the systems that would actually hurt if they were compromised.
Privilege Escalation & Impact
We chain access-control weaknesses and misconfigurations together and show, read-only, exactly how far they'd take a real intruder — proving access without ever putting a system at risk.
Reporting & Free Retest
You get a diagram of exactly how far we got and how, findings broken out per host, and once fixes are in place, we verify them again at no extra cost.
Scope of testing
- External perimeter — exposed services, edge devices, VPN gateways
- Internal lateral movement and network segmentation review
- Active Directory abuse paths and privilege escalation
- Cloud network fabric — VPCs, peering, security groups, IAM
- Wireless networks and rogue device detection
- Assumed-breach engagements from a low-privilege seed
- Privileged access workstation and jump-host hardening
What we find most often
A quiet route to domain admin
A weak service-account password, an account that skipped pre-authentication, or one overlooked permission grant is often all it takes to climb from a single compromised login to full domain control.
Secrets sitting on a file share
It isn't glamorous, but an open share holding old deployment scripts or a forgotten password file is a genuinely common way into an otherwise well-defended network.
Networks that don't actually stay separate
The guest Wi-Fi that can somehow reach the corporate LAN, or the staging environment with a live path into production — the kind of thing that only becomes obvious once someone tries to move through it.
Management consoles left facing the internet
Internal dashboards and admin tools that were never meant to be public, sitting on the open internet anyway, often still on default credentials.
Sector-aware testing
What you get
01 · Attack-Path Graph
A visual map of the exploitation path from initial foothold to business-critical impact.
02 · Per-Host Findings
Reproduction steps and remediation guidance for every affected host.
03 · Framework Mapping
Findings mapped to the technique frameworks your audit or compliance process requires.
04 · Free Retest
Retest pass on critical and high findings once remediation is complete.
Typical Duration
5–10 working days, depending on IP range size and internal complexity.
What We Need From You
IP ranges, a network diagram if available, and agreed rules of engagement.
Pricing & Retest
[Add your starting price] · free retest included
Buyer questions, answered honestly
External pen-test, internal pen-test, or both?
Most organizations benefit from both — external to see what an internet-based attacker can reach, internal to see what happens after a foothold. We'll recommend a starting point during scoping.
Do you need network access for an internal pen-test?
Yes — typically a network jack, VPN credential, or a provisioned test machine inside the environment being assessed.
What is the risk of disruption?
Low. We agree stop conditions and testing windows in advance, and impact is always demonstrated read-only.
Is Active Directory testing included?
Yes, for internal and assumed-breach engagements where AD is in scope.
Do you test cloud infrastructure?
Yes — VPC design, peering, security groups, and IAM boundaries are covered as part of network testing, with deeper cloud configuration review available separately.
Ready to scope this engagement?
We'll align on goals, rules of engagement, and timeline within one working day.