Your external perimeter is under continuous reconnaissance by automated threat scanners and targeted threat actors. Riptide Cybersecurity’s External Penetration Testing delivers an adversary’s perspective on your organization’s internet-facing footprint.
Comprehensive Reconnaissance & Attack Surface Mapping
Our external assessments combine active and passive intelligence gathering techniques:
- OSINT & Leaked Credential Discovery: Intelligence gathering across breached credential databases (DeHashed, Flare) to identify leaked employee passwords and credential stuffing exposure.
- Passive & Active Subdomain Enumeration: Surface mapping across DNS engines, certificate transparency logs, and discovery tools (knockpy, sublist3r).
- Internet Exposure & Asset Fingerprinting: Global reconnaissance using Shodan and Censys to identify shadow IT, forgotten cloud instances, and misconfigured firewall rules.
- Visual Perimeter Reconnaissance: High-throughput screenshot analysis using Gowitness and Aquatone to rapidly spot exposed administrative consoles, dev portals, and login interfaces.
- Perimeter Service Exploitation: Safe, controlled exploitation of unpatched CVEs, SSL-VPN endpoints, exposed Remote Desktop Gateways, and unauthenticated management panels.
Deliverables
- External Attack Surface Map: Complete inventory of all discovered public IP ranges, hostnames, and exposed services.
- Proof-of-Concept Verification: Documented, reproducible evidence of perimeter vulnerabilities with zero disruption to production uptime.
- Edge Hardening Guidance: Step-by-step instructions to disable obsolete protocols, close exposed administrative panels, and enforce modern zero-trust ingress controls.
