Find it before they do.

Penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, disaster recovery planning, advanced persistent threat simulation, and whitebox security review for the AI-native and vibe-coded stack. SA-based, compliance-aware, no offshore handoffs.

A long black wall of blocks; a small figure shines a torch on the one orange gap nobody else has noticed.
Services
Five, one team
Based in
Johannesburg, no offshore handoffs
Engagements
3 days to 12 weeks
Pentest retest
Free within 30 days

A pentest tests whether you can be broken into. An APT simulation tests whether anyone would notice.

Five services cover the ground between those two questions, from a vulnerability scan measured in days to a red team measured in weeks. The same Johannesburg team runs all of them.

What each engagement covers.

  1. A row of black doors; a figure tries each handle and finds the orange one standing open. 01 · Black-box, grey-box, or white-box

    Penetration Testing.

    A structured attempt to break in. We pick the same paths a real attacker would: exposed endpoints, weak auth, leaked secrets, misconfigured cloud. You get a report ranked by exploitability and business impact, plus working proofs-of-concept for every finding above informational.

    Per engagement

    Scoped per scope, 1 to 3 weeks

    • Web app, mobile app, API, or cloud-infra scope
    • OWASP Top 10 + business-logic abuse cases
    • Manual exploitation, not just a Nessus dump
    • Findings ranked by exploitability and impact
    • Working PoCs for every High and Critical
    • Remediation guidance + free retest within 30 days
    Scope a pentest
  2. An orange scan line sweeps across a wall of black tiles, flagging three in orange, while a figure with a clipboard follows. 02 · Continuous or point-in-time

    Vulnerability Assessment.

    Less surgical than a pentest, much broader. Authenticated and unauthenticated scanning across your infrastructure, applications, and cloud workloads. We tune scanners to your stack, triage findings by hand to cut the false positives, and tell you what to fix first.

    Point in time

    Scoped per environment, 3 to 5 days

    • Network, external attack surface, and cloud-config scan
    • Manual triage on every High and Critical
    • Prioritised remediation list
    • Executive summary for the board pack

    Continuous

    Monthly retainer

    • Weekly scans across all assets
    • Authenticated scanning with credentials we manage
    • SLA-driven triage and ticket creation in your tracker
    • Monthly trend report: are you closing faster than you open
    • Quarterly review with engineering and risk
  3. A figure pulls a lever to move the load from a dark black server cabinet to a lit orange one, under a clock near two. 03 · Plan, document, rehearse

    Disaster Recovery Planning.

    Most companies have a backup. Almost none have ever restored from it under pressure. We define your RTO and RPO targets, design backup and failover architecture against those targets, write the runbooks, and then run tabletop exercises with the team that would actually push the buttons at 02:00.

    Per build

    Scoped per environment, 2 to 6 weeks

    • Business impact analysis (what costs us money when it's down)
    • RTO and RPO targets per system, signed off by stakeholders
    • Backup architecture: immutable, geo-redundant, tested
    • Failover runbooks written in plain English
    • Tabletop exercise with the on-call team
    • Live failover rehearsal where the architecture supports it
  4. A cross-section of an office: an orange figure crawls through the ducts between rooms while the people at their desks carry on, unaware. 04 · Red team · Real adversary playbooks

    Advanced Persistent Threat Simulation.

    We emulate the playbooks of real adversary groups (initial access, persistence, lateral movement, exfiltration), live alongside your environment for weeks, and report on what your detection and response actually caught versus what walked past untouched.

    Focused engagement

    Scoped per goal, 2 to 4 weeks

    • Single objective: e.g. exfiltrate customer PII
    • Realistic initial-access path (phishing, exposed cred, supply chain)
    • Persistence, lateral movement, privilege escalation
    • Post-engagement debrief with SOC and engineering

    Full red team

    Scoped per environment, 6 to 12 weeks

    • Multi-objective campaign across the org
    • Emulation of specific threat actors (e.g. FIN7, APT29)
    • Purple-team handoff: every TTP mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
    • Detection and response gap report
    • Rebuild engagement after defenders patch the gaps
  5. A hastily stacked tower of black blocks; under a magnifying glass one block shows an orange crack, and a figure on a ladder fixes it with a wrench. 05 · For AI-generated and prototyped apps

    Vibe-Coded Whitebox Review.

    If your app was built mostly by an LLM, in a weekend, or by someone who "didn't think about auth yet," this is for you. We do a full whitebox review of the codebase, the deployed environment, and the AI-specific failure modes: prompt injection, secrets in prompts, agentic action sprawl, unscoped tool use. We don't just tell you what's wrong, we fix it.

    Review only

    Scoped per codebase, 1 to 2 weeks

    • Auth, authz, session handling, password and key storage
    • Injection paths (SQL, command, prompt, template)
    • Secret management, API keys, env handling
    • Cloud configuration: buckets, IAM, network exposure
    • AI-specific: prompt injection, tool sprawl, jailbreak surface
    • Findings report with severity, exploitability, and fixes

    Review + remediate

    Scoped per codebase, 2 to 6 weeks

    • Everything in Review only
    • We write the patches, you ship them
    • Hardening of CI/CD, dependency hygiene, SBOM
    • Add or fix the eval harness for AI components
    • 30-day rebuild check after remediation lands
    • Hand-off doc so your team can run this themselves next time

Need compliance, KYC, or audit-grade logging built in?

Our AI services practice ships document agents and decision systems for FICA, KYC, and AML workflows. If security and compliance are the same project, we'll scope them together.

Not sure which one applies?

Most engagements start with a 30-minute scoping call. We'll tell you which of the five services actually applies and which would just be theatre.