Offensive security
There's always a way in.
Rarely a missing patch. Usually a workflow nobody thought to question, an approval that trusts the wrong field, a boundary that holds everywhere except here.
The difference
A scanner has never asked a question.
- Which workflow stops the company if it breaks?
- Nothing in the code says which one matters.
- How is authorisation supposed to behave?
- A tool can only see how it does behave.
- Where does a new system still trust an old one?
- Trust is a decision somebody made, not a header.
How an engagement runs
Machines for breadth. People for depth.
- 01Outsider reconMap what an unauthenticated attacker sees before they have any help from you.
- 02Context alignmentStop enumerating technology and start modelling business risk.
- 03Deep-context exploitationWeaponise that context against the gap between design and reality.
Phase two is the one most firms skip. It is a working session with your engineers, and it is why phase three finds anything a scanner could not.
OWASP · PTES · NIST SP 800-115 · MITRE ATT&CK · CVSS
Capabilities
Five ways to find out where you stand.
Executive Adversary Briefing
A private session with your leadership on how someone would actually come after you: who targets your sector, what your public footprint already gives away, and the three routes in we would try first. We give away the thinking, not a scan.
- Threat actors credibly targeting your sector
- What your public footprint already discloses
- The three routes in we would try first
- Straight answers, in the room, no report to chase
Managed Red Team
A standing adversary for your organisation. Continuous offensive testing across your technology and your people, with executive reporting every month.
- Baseline assessment in month one
- Weekly external testing & OSINT monitoring
- Three social engineering campaigns monthly
- Executive reporting with trend analysis
Red Team Assessment
Not a list of vulnerabilities — a single question, answered honestly. Can a capable adversary reach the thing you cannot afford to lose? Technology, people and process are all in scope, because they are all in scope for the people who mean it.
- A defined objective, not a coverage checklist
- Technology, people and physical in one engagement
- Detection and response measured as you go
- Full attack narrative, start to objective
Penetration Testing
Real-world attack simulation across applications, networks, cloud and devices — executed by hand, reported in plain language, prioritised by genuine business risk.
- Web applications & APIs
- External & internal networks
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Mobile & IoT devices
The practitioner
Daniel Scragg
Founder & Principal Consultant
A principal leads every engagement, reviews every finding, and is the person you speak to from first call to retest. A larger firm will sell you more people. It will not sell you more attention.
Every one earned by compromising live systems under examination conditions.
→Next step
Find out what an attacker already knows.
Every engagement starts with a conversation and a mutual NDA — not a sales pipeline. Tell me what you are worried about and I will tell you honestly whether I can help.
daniel@theosec.com · +27 63 484 1051