External Network Penetration Testing
We probe your internet-facing perimeter the way an outside attacker would, finding exposed services, weak configurations and forgotten assets before someone else does. The result is a clear picture of your true attack surface.
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What this means. An authorized Solvex administrator registered and approved this exact public identity. What it does not. Solvex has not inspected the account on the platform, and this is not the platform's own verification.
Solvex specialists never ask for your passwords, recovery phrases, one-time codes, or payments to a personal account. Work, scope and invoices are agreed in writing through the official channels on this site.
Signed authorization required. This engagement is performed only against systems you own or are contractually authorized to have tested, under an agreed scope. See the responsible testing policy.
What's covered
- External footprint and asset discovery for authorised ranges
- Service enumeration and vulnerability identification
- Exploitation of exposed services, VPNs and remote-access gateways
- Credential and authentication weaknesses on public services
- Misconfiguration and information-leakage review
- Validation of findings with safe, controlled exploitation
What you receive
- Technical report with confirmed findings and evidence
- Attack-surface inventory of discovered assets
- Executive summary and prioritised remediation plan
- Free retest of remediated issues
- Attestation letter
Evidence and reporting
How the work is kept honest- Evidence, frozen at issuanceFindings tie to something observed. When the report is issued, the evidence behind it is frozen in the same transaction and cannot be edited afterwards.
- A signed reportAn Ed25519 signature covers both the report content and the delivered file. Alter a byte of either and verification fails.
- Signed scope firstTesting starts only after written scope and signed authorization for systems you own or are entitled to have tested.
Anyone holding a Solvex report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents.
Our boundaries
What this engagement does not do, stated before it starts.
- Only IP ranges and hosts you own or are authorised to test
- No denial-of-service without written consent
- No pivoting into third-party or shared-hosting neighbours
- No data exfiltration beyond proof of impact
How this engagement runs
- 01
Intake
Tell us the system, the goal and the constraints. If the work is not a good fit, we say so before anyone is invoiced.
- 02
Scope and authorization
Written scope and signed authorization before anything is touched. Security testing runs only against systems you own or are contractually entitled to have tested.
- 03
Investigation or build
Specialists matched to the work. Findings are proven by hand — scanner output is a lead, never a finding.
- 04
Evidence
Every finding ties to something observed. When a report is issued, its evidence is frozen in the same transaction, so what backed the report cannot change afterwards.
- 05
Delivery
A signed report: an Ed25519 signature over both the content and the file, with a short verification reference you can read down a phone.
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Verification and retest
Anyone holding the report can verify it publicly without seeing its contents. Fixes are retested as part of the engagement — “fixed” means we confirmed it.
Questions we are asked
- How is this different from a vulnerability scan?
- A scan lists potential issues; a penetration test confirms which are truly exploitable, chains them together, and shows real business impact. We manually verify everything.
- What do you need to start?
- The IP ranges and domains in scope, a signed authorisation, and any testing-window constraints. We confirm ownership of ranges before any testing begins.
- Will this disrupt our services?
- We test carefully and avoid denial-of-service techniques unless explicitly authorised, coordinating any higher-risk checks with your team.
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