Expose exploitable vulnerabilities across critical systems
What Is Penetration Testing?
Proactive Security Validation
Penetration testing, or “pen testing”, is a controlled, ethical hacking exercise that simulates how attackers attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in your systems, applications, and workforce.
By mimicking real-world attack techniques, pen testing not only identifies weaknesses, but demonstrates how they could be used to gain unauthorized access, disrupt operations, or expose sensitive data.
BENEFITS
High-Impact Security Insights
Find Vulnerabilities Before Attackers Do
Identify gaps across networks, cloud environments, applications, API endpoints, and user controls.
Prioritized Remediation Guidance
We translate technical findings into business risk so your team can act with clarity and focus.
Strengthen Trust & Compliance
Support regulatory, contractual, and audit requirements by providing you test defenses regularly.
Improve Security Resilience
Testing reinforces your security strategy: hardening defenses and reducing exposure to real threats.
SERVICES
Our Penetration Testing Services
Network & Infrastructure Penetration Testing
Reveal weaknesses in your internal and external network infrastructure, firewalls, routers, servers, and segmentation controls that attackers could exploit to move laterally or gain privilege escalation.
Cloud Penetration Testing
Security assurance for modern environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, container platforms, and cloud-hosted services, identifying misconfigurations, broken access controls, insecure APIs, and lateral attack paths.
Mobile App Penetration Testing
Assess iOS and Android applications for insecure data storage, authentication issues, business logic flaws, insecure transport, and third-party component vulnerabilities that could be abused in the wild.
Web & API Application Penetration Testing
Deep testing of web applications and APIs to find injection flaws, broken authentication, insecure direct object references, server misconfigurations, logic flaws, and other OWASP-class risks.
Social Engineering & Phishing Assessments
Evaluate your people and processes with controlled social engineering exercises, including phishing simulation, vishing, and impersonation testing, to measure human risk and response readiness.
Red Team Security Assessments
Simulate advanced, multi-vector adversary behavior spanning technical, physical, and social attack surfaces, designed to test defenses, detection, and response controls in realistic threat scenarios.
Compliance-Aligned Penetration Testing
Strengthen Compliance Across Key Frameworks
Penetration testing is more than a security best practice, it is required or strongly recommended across many regulatory and assurance frameworks. IS Partners aligns penetration testing engagements with your broader compliance objectives to ensure results support audit and certification requirements
Our penetration testing services help support:
✔ PCI DSS
✔ ISO 27001
✔ SOC 1 & SOC 2
✔ HIPAA
✔ FTC Safeguards Rule
✔ GDPR
✔ And other regulatory frameworks
Because we also perform many of these audits and advisory engagements, we understand what assessors look for and how penetration testing findings impact your compliance posture.
Pricing
Flexible Penetration Testing Pricing
Pricing varies depending on scope, asset count, testing depth, and environment complexity. We offer transparent, scoped proposals that map testing objectives to deliverables and risk impact.
Common pricing factors include:
- Number of IPs and hosts
- Web and mobile application complexity
- Cloud environment scale
- Social engineering breadth
- Red team engagement depth
Timeframe & Frequency
How Long Does Testing Take?
Typical engagement timelines:
- Network & Infrastructure: 1–3 weeks
- Web & API: 2–4 weeks
- Mobile Apps: 2–4 weeks
- Cloud Assessments: 2–6 weeks
- Social Engineering: 1–3 weeks
- Red Team: 4–8+ weeks
Time varies by scope and target complexity.
How Often Should You Test?
Most organizations conduct penetration testing:
- Annually or bi-annually (minimum)
- After major releases, migrations, or architecture changes
- As required by compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC)
WHY CHOOSE US
Your Trusted SOC 2 Audit Firm
Choose IS Partners for unparalleled expertise in navigating SOC 2 compliance, ensuring your organization meets the highest security standards. Our dedicated team provides customized solutions that protect your data and prove to customers, partners and vendors that you are serious about protecting their data.
Full U.S.-based team
Ensures a better understanding of the local business nuances and regulations.
No Outsourcing
Work with the same dedicated team throughout the entire process.
One-stop shop
Saves time and effort by offering all requisite services under one roof.
Over 20 years of experience
Gives you access to our deep industry insights and tried-and-tested methods.
Compatibility with your compliance software
Offers the flexibility to integrate with existing software like Drata, Vanta, or any other.
Software Included (FREE!)
Benefit from our proprietary software at no additional cost.
PROCESS
Our Proven Approach
1. Scope & Planning. Define targets, rules of engagement, and risk objectives.
2. Information Gathering. Collect data about targets through active and passive discovery.
3. Vulnerability Identification. Map attack surface and detect weaknesses.
4. Exploitation. Attempt safe, controlled exploitation to validate impact
5. Reporting & Recommendations. Deliver risk-rated findings, remediation guidance, and retest options.
WHO WE SERVE
Penetration Testing for All Industries
We work with:
- SaaS & cloud service providers
- Healthcare & regulated sectors
- Financial services
- Enterprise infrastructure
- Tech platforms & apps
- Startups building secure products
Penetration testing is essential for any organization that relies on digital infrastructure and must manage risk, compliance, and trust.
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