Penetration Testing Services in Australia

External network penetration testing evaluates your organisation’s attack surface from the perspective of an external threat actor with no prior access or knowledge of your environment. CyberPulse consultants test all externally exposed services, including firewalls, VPNs, remote access gateways, web portals, and cloud-hosted infrastructure, to identify vulnerabilities exploitable without authentication. Common findings include exposed management interfaces, weak TLS configurations, unpatched public-facing services, and subdomain takeover opportunities. External testing aligns with PCI-DSS Requirement 11.3, ISO 27001 Annex A controls for network security, and APRA CPS 234 obligations around information asset protection. Results are delivered in a prioritised report with clear remediation guidance, and CyberPulse offers retest engagements to validate that identified vulnerabilities have been effectively addressed.

Mobile application penetration testing evaluates the security of your iOS and Android applications against the OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG), the industry standard for mobile security assessment. CyberPulse consultants test client-side storage, network communications, authentication mechanisms, session handling, and inter-process communication to identify vulnerabilities across both the application and its backend API connections. Mobile applications that handle sensitive user data, financial transactions, or regulated personal information require rigorous security testing to meet Privacy Act 1988 obligations and satisfy enterprise procurement requirements. Testing covers both static analysis of application code and dynamic analysis of runtime behaviour, with findings presented in a report that prioritises issues by exploitability and business impact for your development and security teams.

Web application penetration testing assesses the security of your customer-facing and internal web applications against the OWASP Top 10 and beyond. CyberPulse consultants perform manual testing across authentication, session management, access controls, input validation, and business logic, identifying vulnerabilities that automated scanners consistently miss. This includes injection flaws, broken access control, insecure direct object references, and privilege escalation paths specific to your application architecture. Web application testing is a requirement under PCI-DSS for organisations that process payment card data, and is recommended for any application handling sensitive customer or regulated data under the Privacy Act 1988. Testing is available in black box, grey box, and white box configurations, with scope tailored to your application’s complexity, number of dynamic endpoints, and regulatory obligations.

API penetration testing assesses the security of your REST, GraphQL, and SOAP interfaces, targeting the authentication, authorisation, and data exposure vulnerabilities that are increasingly exploited in modern application attacks. CyberPulse consultants test for broken object level authorisation, excessive data exposure, rate limiting failures, injection vulnerabilities, and mass assignment flaws aligned to the OWASP API Security Top 10. As organisations shift toward microservices and third-party integrations, APIs represent one of the fastest-growing attack surfaces in the Australian threat landscape. API testing is relevant for any organisation whose applications communicate via exposed interfaces, including SaaS providers, fintech platforms, health technology companies, and government digital services. Engagements are scoped based on the number of endpoints, authentication mechanisms in use, and the sensitivity of data processed by each interface.

Wireless and VoIP penetration testing assesses the security of your organisation’s WiFi networks and voice infrastructure against attack scenarios that exploit misconfigured access points, weak encryption protocols, rogue device insertion, and eavesdropping vulnerabilities. CyberPulse consultants test corporate wireless networks, guest network segmentation, WPA2 and WPA3 configurations, and the controls that prevent wireless access from being used as an entry point into your internal network. VoIP testing evaluates call interception risks, authentication weaknesses in SIP implementations, and the segmentation controls that protect voice infrastructure from network-level attacks. Wireless testing is required as part of PCI-DSS compliance for organisations with WiFi networks in scope for cardholder data environments, and is recommended as part of a comprehensive penetration testing programme covering all network access paths.

Secure code review provides a structured assessment of your application’s source code to identify security vulnerabilities introduced during development, before they reach production and become exploitable in the wild. CyberPulse consultants combine automated static analysis tooling with manual review to identify injection vulnerabilities, insecure cryptographic implementations, hardcoded credentials, insecure deserialisation, and access control flaws that are invisible to black box testing alone. Reviews are aligned to OWASP secure coding guidelines and can be scoped to specific modules, recent code changes, or full application codebases. Secure code review is particularly valuable ahead of major releases, infrastructure migrations, or third-party audits where application security evidence is required. Findings are delivered with developer-focused remediation guidance and severity ratings based on exploitability in your specific deployment context.

Active Directory password audits assess the strength and hygiene of credentials across your Windows environment, identifying accounts with weak, reused, or compromised passwords that represent a primary pathway for lateral movement and privilege escalation following an initial breach. CyberPulse consultants extract and analyse password hashes from your Active Directory environment in a controlled, authorised engagement, comparing results against known breach databases and testing against common attack patterns including credential spraying and pass-the-hash techniques. Findings identify specific accounts requiring immediate remediation, systemic policy weaknesses, and configuration changes that reduce your exposure to credential-based attacks. AD password audits are recommended as part of ASD Essential Eight Maturity Level 2 and above for organisations implementing multi-factor authentication and privileged access management controls across their Windows environments.

Cloud and Kubernetes penetration testing assesses the security of your AWS, Azure, GCP, and containerised environments against misconfigurations, identity and access management weaknesses, and workload isolation failures that are specific to cloud-native architectures. CyberPulse consultants test IAM policy misconfigurations, overly permissive service accounts, exposed storage buckets, insecure Kubernetes RBAC configurations, container escape pathways, and lateral movement opportunities between workloads and cloud services. Cloud penetration testing is increasingly required as part of IRAP assessments for government and regulated organisations hosting workloads in Australian cloud environments, and supports ISO 27001 Annex A controls for cloud security governance. Engagements are available for single cloud environments or multi-cloud architectures, with testing aligned to the CIS Cloud Security Benchmarks and your organisation’s specific cloud provider configurations.

Red team engagements simulate a sophisticated, goal-oriented adversary targeting your organisation over an extended period, testing not just your technical controls but your detection, response, and containment capabilities under realistic attack conditions. CyberPulse red team consultants use the MITRE ATT&CK framework to replicate the tactics, techniques, and procedures of threat actors relevant to your industry, including financially motivated attackers and state-aligned groups active in the Australian threat landscape. Purple team engagements extend this model by running attack simulations collaboratively with your internal security team, building detection capability and improving SIEM and SOC response playbooks in real time. Both engagement types are suited to organisations with mature security programmes seeking to validate their investment in detection and response controls beyond what standard penetration testing can assess.