02 / Test · Penetration testing
Understand how an attacker could reach your critical systems—and give your team evidence to act on.
Karhu scopes testing around your environment, investigates attack paths, and turns findings into practical priorities for your technical team and leadership.
Choose the right scope
An engagement can focus on one area or combine several. We match the testing to the questions your organization needs answered.
What you receive
The report should help your team understand the evidence, the impact, and the work ahead. Deliverables and review sessions are defined in your engagement.
A clear summary of significant findings, potential business impact, and the priorities leadership needs to understand.
Documented weaknesses and supporting evidence, with affected systems, risk context, and practical remediation guidance.
A findings review with your team to discuss the results, answer questions, and agree on remediation priorities.
What a useful finding explains
How the engagement works
Agree on objectives, systems, access, testing windows, permitted activities, and communication contacts.
Evaluate the agreed environment and investigate how weaknesses can be exploited or connected into attack paths.
Discuss the evidence, operational implications, and remediation priorities with your technical team and leadership.
Identify remediation owners and discuss engineering support or retesting where included in the agreed scope.
Bring the systems you want tested, your main concerns, any deadlines, and the constraints we should plan around. We’ll help turn those details into a workable scope.
Discuss your testing scopeFrom a penetration-testing client
“For any organization serious about security, Karhu Cyber is a trusted partner that will challenge assumptions, expose weaknesses, and provide the clarity needed to strengthen defenses.”
The people behind the work
Selected credentials held across our team in network, application, and wireless testing.
Before you get started
A scan helps identify potential weaknesses across systems. A penetration test investigates whether and how weaknesses can be exploited within an agreed scope, including how several issues may combine into an attack path. The two approaches support different parts of a security program.
Start with the decision you need to make. External testing examines internet-facing exposure; internal testing examines what could happen from an internal foothold. Application, wireless, social engineering, and physical testing address different entry points. We help define a scope around your priorities and environment.
Testing is planned around your operating constraints. Before work begins, we agree on testing windows, permitted techniques, exclusions, emergency contacts, and escalation procedures. Tell us about critical services, sensitive systems, and third-party restrictions during scoping.
Identify a technical contact, the systems or locations in scope, relevant business priorities, and any restrictions. Depending on the engagement, we may also need test accounts, access arrangements, network information, or documentation. Written authorization and the rules of engagement are established before testing.
Timing and cost depend on the size and complexity of the environment, the testing objectives, access requirements, and reporting needs. We establish the scope, schedule, and commercial terms with you before the engagement.
We can discuss engineering support for addressing findings and follow-up testing to validate changes. Remediation assistance and retesting are agreed as part of the engagement scope or a separate next step.
A penetration test provides evidence about the systems, techniques, and period covered by the engagement. It cannot establish that every weakness has been found or prevent future vulnerabilities. Use the results alongside ongoing vulnerability management, monitoring, and security improvements.
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