Testing and Assurance
At SquareVertex, our Testing & Assurance practice provides rigorous, holistic validation of your security posture. Leveraging automation, manual testing, and bespoke frameworks, we ensure your systems, apps, and infrastructure are resilient against evolving threats—and compliant with industry standards.
Our Testing Services
- Penetration Testing (Cloud & Network)
- Real-world adversary simulations to uncover critical vulnerabilities across networks, cloud environments, and hybrid infrastructures.
- Application & API Security Testing
- Comprehensive assessment including manual and automated SAST/DAST, 3rd-party library scanning, and API fuzzing.
- Red Team Exercise & Adversary Emulation
- Targeted scenarios replicating threat actor tactics and procedures, testing detection, response, and remediation capabilities.
- Configuration & Infrastructure Assurance
- Audit of IaC, cloud configurations, container setups, and OS hardening against benchmarks and CIS recommendations.
- Continuous Security Validation (CSV)
- Automated testing pipelines integrated into CI/CD, delivering real-time feedback on both code and environment changes.
Why It Matters
- Reduce your attack surface:
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- Identify unknown vulnerabilities across your codebase, open-source dependencies, and runtime environments. We use tools like Black Duck for deep Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and Oligo Security for runtime-aware OSS risk assessment—focusing on what’s exploitable in production, not just what’s present.
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- Validate controls with confidence:
- Our testing framework evaluates your security layers—encryption, IAM, monitoring—against real-world scenarios and BSIMM-aligned maturity models, ensuring that controls are both present and effective.
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- Test your people & processes:
- From targeted red team engagements to DevSecOps pipeline validation, we evaluate both human and technical readiness. We simulate advanced threat actor behaviors and validate how your teams detect, respond, and recover.
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- Meet regulatory and certification demands:
- Our assurance reports map directly to controls required by ISO 27001, NIS 2, SOC 2, and sector-specific regulations—accelerating your audit preparation and client trust-building efforts.
Our Approach
A comprehensive, outcome-driven testing methodology—designed to deliver clarity, confidence, and real-world assurance.
Scoping & Discovery
We begin with collaborative planning tailored to your risk profile, business objectives, and regulatory landscape.
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Outcome: A clear, actionable testing plan mapped to your environments, technologies, and compliance scope (ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, SOC 2, etc.).
Automated Scanning + Manual Testing
We combine advanced automation with deep manual expertise. While automated tools flag known issues quickly, our senior pentesters uncover business logic flaws, authentication bypasses, and chained vulnerabilities that scanners often miss.
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Outcome: High-fidelity results with low false positives—so your team acts on what matters.
Adversary Realism in Red Teaming
We simulate real-world threat actors using APT tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) aligned to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK. This includes social engineering, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and
Expertise and Talent
Our practice comprises globally recognized client-facing practitioners, with depth and breadth of knowledge at global, regional, and local industry and regulatory requirements.
Our subject matter practitioners have years of experience helping organizations implement integrated, programmatic frameworks for cybersecurity and risk management strategy using an automated, risk-based approach for cyber resilience and risk management.
Frameworks Used
For test and assurance we utilise industry standards and frameworks..
Innovation and Automation
Our offerings are underpinned by further incorporating Machine Learning (“ML”), AI and Generative AI (“GenAI”) to accelerate innovation, automate labor intensive tasks and bring additional value with intelligent workflows.
Offering Services
Consulting
Type
Cyber Security Strategy