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ISO 27001 Penetration Testing Requirements
CompliancePenetration Testing

ISO 27001 Penetration Testing Requirements

ISO 27001:2022 never names penetration testing, yet it is how you evidence Annex A 8.8 and 8.29 at a surveillance audit. The honest read on required vs expected, with the 2013 lineage and the Oct 2025 deadline.

May 20, 20268 min
PCI DSS Penetration Testing Requirements
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CompliancePenetration Testing

PCI DSS Penetration Testing Requirements

PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4 is the rare standard that names penetration testing outright: internal and external annually plus after change, segmentation at 12 or 6 months, mandatory since 31 Mar 2025.

May 5, 20267 min
HIPAA Penetration Testing Requirements
CompliancePenetration Testing

HIPAA Penetration Testing Requirements

HIPAA never says "penetration test," but the Security Rule's risk analysis and its REQUIRED evaluation standard expect technical testing of every system touching ePHI. Here is the precise read.

Apr 20, 20267 min
SOC 2 Penetration Testing Requirements
CompliancePenetration Testing

SOC 2 Penetration Testing Requirements

SOC 2 never names penetration testing in any criterion, yet auditors treat it as the load-bearing evidence for CC4.1 and CC7.x. Here is the gap between the letter and the audit.

Apr 5, 20267 min
AI Harness for Offensive Security - Strobes blog cover showing multi-agent architecture concept
Offensive SecurityPenetration Testing

Building an AI Harness for Offensive Security: What It Takes to Turn LLMs Into Reliable Pentest and Validation Operators

The model is 20% of the problem. Here is the engineering story behind the orchestration, tooling, middleware, and infrastructure that turns a capable LLM into a reliable penetration testing operator.

Mar 22, 202614 min
Social Engineering Penetration Testing Guide
Offensive Security

Social Engineering Penetration Testing Guide

A social engineering penetration testing field guide: building an OSINT pretext, running an authorized GoPhish campaign, mapping to MITRE ATT&CK T1566, and the metrics that prove resilience.

Dec 21, 20258 min
IoT Penetration Testing Guide
Offensive Security

IoT Penetration Testing Guide

An IoT penetration testing field guide: binwalk firmware extraction, cracking /etc/shadow with hashcat, dropping to a U-Boot root shell, flashrom SPI dumps, and open MQTT brokers.

Dec 6, 20259 min
Thick Client Penetration Testing Guide
Offensive SecurityApplication Security

Thick Client Penetration Testing Guide

A field guide to thick client penetration testing: decompiling .NET with dnSpy, Frida auth hooks, named-pipe DACL abuse, and the report-grade findings that come out of it.

Nov 21, 20259 min
VoIP Penetration Testing and Reconnaissance Guide
Network Pentesting

VoIP Penetration Testing and Reconnaissance Guide

Toll fraud cost businesses billions last year, and most of it traces to a misconfigured PBX. Here is how VoIP penetration testing finds the SIP, RTP, and dial-plan holes before an attacker does.

Oct 22, 20257 min
Wireless Penetration Testing Guide
Network PentestingPenetration Testing

Wireless Penetration Testing Guide

A weak Wi-Fi key cracked from the parking lot can undo every firewall you own. Here is the wireless penetration testing workflow, with real hcxdumptool and hashcat output and the EAP-TLS fix that ends it.

Oct 7, 20257 min
How Application Penetration Testing Prevents Real-World Breaches
Application Security

How Application Penetration Testing Prevents Real-World Breaches

Applications are prime targets for attackers, and breaches often start with a single vulnerability. Application penetration testing identifies, validates, and helps remediate these weaknesses before they are exploited. Modern PTaaS integrates with DevSecOps and CTEM, providing continuous validation,

Sep 24, 20258 min
Active Directory Penetration Testing Checklist
Network PentestingOffensive Security

Active Directory Penetration Testing Checklist

Most domains fall without a single CVE. This Active Directory penetration testing checklist walks the phases with real Kerberoast and Certipy output, a findings table, and the controls that actually break each path.

Sep 22, 20257 min