Product · Penetration Testing & Offensive Security
AI-Driven Penetration Testing with Expert Validation
CyberRecon™ is Cyber Defense Advisors' AI-driven penetration testing service. Autonomous agents explore attack paths and attempt exploitation at machine speed; CDA security experts validate every finding, chain attack paths and translate them into business risk. Reporting supports SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP and cyber insurance, and one remediation retest is included.
CyberRecon pairs autonomous offensive security — AI agents that explore attack paths and attempt exploitation at machine speed — with CDA security experts who validate every finding, chain the attack paths and translate them into business risk.
The output is proof of exploitation rather than a scanner's list of theoretical vulnerabilities, in reporting built to satisfy SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP and cyber insurance requirements — with one remediation retest included.
Scope
Scoped individually or run continuously. Most clients start with external or authenticated testing and expand into continuous coverage.
External attack surface, public web applications, APIs, internet-facing infrastructure and authentication portals. Baseline validation and compliance evidence.
Credentialed application and API testing, role-based access validation, business logic abuse and privilege escalation. Built for SaaS and customer portals.
Continuous attack surface discovery and exploit validation, rapid retesting after remediation, testing before production releases.
REST and GraphQL: authentication bypass, broken object level authorization, injection and data exposure.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud: IAM privilege escalation, insecure storage exposure, container and serverless weaknesses.
CI/CD pipeline security validation, automated pre-release testing and rapid retesting after code changes.
Deliverables
Business risk and impact, written for leadership, auditors and underwriters.
Findings with exploit reproduction steps and remediation guidance.
Deterministic confirmation that a vulnerability is actually exploitable.
How privilege escalation and lateral movement would unfold.
Ordered by real-world impact, not by raw severity score.
Included, within 60 days of the initial assessment report.
Delivery approach
Discover domains, subdomains and exposed assets; enumerate services; fingerprint technology; define scope against real-world threat.
Step 1
AI-driven discovery across attack paths; injection, authentication, access control, API and business logic abuse testing.
Step 2
Practitioners confirm exploitability, analyze escalation and lateral movement, identify multi-step chains, assess business impact.
Step 3
Executive and technical reporting, prioritized guidance, remediation support and clarification.
Step 4
One included retest within 60 days; optional continuous testing with quarterly executive risk reviews.
Elective
Timeline. Engagements are expected to conclude within 90 days of kickoff, subject to timely access, credentials and authorization. The included retest runs within 60 days of the initial report.
| Standard / authority | Applied to |
|---|---|
| SOC 2 and ISO 27001 | Satisfying the annual penetration testing requirement on record |
| PCI DSS | Cardholder data environment testing evidence |
| HIPAA | Technical evaluation evidence for the Security Rule |
| FedRAMP | Testing evidence within an authorization program |
| Cyber insurance | Underwriter and renewal evidence of independent testing |
| Customer security reviews | Vendor due diligence, questionnaires and contractual testing clauses |
Responsible AI
Experts validate every result. Attack chain analysis, business impact and sign-off are human. Client environments and data are not used to train external models.
Why CDA
Autonomous testing validates exploits with deterministic evidence. A scanner reports what might be exploitable; CyberRecon demonstrates what is.
AI provides the coverage and the volume; practitioners provide the attack chain analysis and the risk narrative a board will accept.
Point-in-time testing ages badly in an environment that ships weekly. Continuous validation tests every release.
One remediation validation is part of the engagement, so fixes are proven rather than assumed.
SaaS platforms, customer portals and enterprise applications with meaningful internet-facing exposure or a contractual testing requirement — technology, financial services, healthcare, logistics and government contractors — including DevOps-led teams deploying frequently and PE portfolio companies being diligenced or integrated.
Testing begins only with written authorization, test accounts and agreed roles, allowlisting and named contacts. Production testing may generate alerts, logging and temporary performance effects; critical findings are escalated immediately. Internal network, wireless, physical, social engineering, source code review, mobile and DoS testing are out of scope unless added to the SOW. Results are point-in-time.
Related
Managed Cybersecurity Compliance — Operated End to End
Learn moreIndependent Cyber Risk Assessment
Learn moreOur Penetration Testing offering is a comprehensive solution designed to help organizations identify and address vulnerabilities in their networks,…
Learn moreFixed-fee, scoped to your environment · 833-54-CYBER (833-542-9237)