At PolarSec, we believe pentesting is more than just a checkbox for compliance, it’s a powerful tool to help organizations grow and mature their security posture. Whether you’re a small business building your first defenses or a larger enterprise ready for advanced red or purple teaming exercises, our tailored approach helps you strengthen security where it matters most.
Result and impact is what drives us. We believe that offensive security can be a great tool for continuous improvement. But pentesting is only as good as its scoping.
This is why our collaboration with new customers always begins with a short, no-cost, technical assessment: a two-day offensive review of the corporate network that highlights real risks. Unlike traditional scoping sessions, this assessment uncovers key exposures first, so that auditing efforts are concentrated where it matters most.
Moreover, finding vulnerabilities is only the beginning. Fixing them makes the real difference.
Hence, we do not stop at pentesting. We go beyond: we help you find solutions and implement them.
This program helps small to mid-sized businesses quickly strengthen their security posture through focused offensive testing, architecture auditing, and hands-on remediation support. It’s designed for teams that want results, not just reports.
Based on the analysis of previous work and business context, a customized testing plan is proposed. This may include internal and external network penetration testing, web and mobile assessments, Active Directory reviews, Wi-Fi security testing, source code audits, or configuration reviews, adapted to the customer’s environment and priorities.
Vulnerabilities aren’t just reported; they’re validated post-remediation. Direct collaboration with IT teams ensures security gaps are addressed and verified effectively. If needed, a STRIDE-based threat model is developed to guide future efforts and give leadership a clear understanding of technical risks.
Improve the technical security maturity of your product and reduce costs by embedding security throughout the development lifecycle. Our consulting services bring together security design, offensive security assessments and automation at each stage of the development process.
This à la carte offering is designed for development companies and engineering teams that need security to keep pace with delivery. By aligning with development milestones, this service reduces late-stage surprises and strengthens product resilience from the first commit to final release.
Security is introduced early, with support for secure architecture design, threat modeling, and the definition of clear security requirements aligned with IEC 62443. Combined black-box and white-box techniques are used to maximize coverage during assessments, and penetration testing is strategically performed at key development stages to detect regressions and emerging risks.
Secure coding guidance, CI/CD pipeline hardening, and integration of automated tools ensure that security becomes part of the workflow—not a bottleneck. Developer training is also available, helping teams improve their security practices internally.
Evaluate your Blue team with Red Teaming exercises. This type of exercise is designed to challenge detection and response capabilities. Red Teaming challenges the defenses end-to-end and at the same time evaluates the detection in realistic conditions.
Even fancy tools need to be well configured to be efficient.
Red Teaming are highly customized, stealthy assessments through realistic, business impact-oriented attacks that closely replicate the techniques used by Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) actors.
Red Team operations are conducted using custom tooling, malware, and dedicated attack infrastructures developed in-house to simulate advanced and persistent threats: breaching the perimeter, pivoting on the internal network, and targeting your crown jewels.
Contrary to pentesting exercises, Red Teaming is not meant to evaluate the security posture. Though vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited along the way, Red Teaming involves an opportunistic rather than exhaustive approach.
Offensive assessments allow to identify vulnerabilities and security design issues in your products before someone else does, avoiding reputational and commercial costs. By identifying new classes of bugs, development practices can be improved sustainably.
Assessments cover a wide range of technologies, from smart sensors to SCADA systems, heavy clients, protocolar stacks, kernel drivers, …
For all kinds of sectors, all with their constraints and specificity, whether for consumer market, industrial, transport, energy, medical, financial or even military.
A testing plan is built to test methodically the attack surface and security functions, leveraging your functional testing and source code if provided.
We adapt our testing effort to the product’s threat model (or can help you with designing one if needed) only on the attack surface and in the conditions that really make sense, targeting the most feared scenarios.
In addition to the interfaces, the efficiency of the security functions is evaluated, complementary to the work done as part of product certifications such as IEC62443.
Purple Teaming is the best way to evaluate and improve your detection methods and procedures. Purple Team engagements bridge the gap between offense and defense by aligning the Red and Blue teams around a common goal: improving your detection and response.
Purple Team engagements bring Red and Blue teams into the same room. While attacks are performed following the MITRE framework, detection capabilities are evaluated: has the attack been detected, what events have been triggered, is it possible to bypass this detection? Let’s see how to make things better.
Instead of just reviewing logs after the fact, your analysts get to see the threat unfold live and learn to distinguish signal from noise, recognize attacker behaviors, and validate that alerts are firing, when and where they should.
This isn’t a test, it’s a training ground, where each missed detection becomes a lesson and each successful alert becomes a reference. Together, we identify gaps, fine-tune alerting logic, and elevate your detection engineering game.
As threats are getting more ubiquitous, companies start to worry about the cyber impacts of targeted attacks and ransomware threats. We can either intervene before production, assessing the security of your OT network in depth, or in production, leveraging less intrusive ways to audit your network without disruption.
Security of industrial control systems has been forgotten or put aside for a long time.
When it comes to ICS security, the best possible solution remains in our opinion to perform offensive assessments pre-production (or even better, in laboratory environments), allowing to identify and to remediate major issues before production.
Testing OT systems in production cannot be performed the same way, without risking unacceptable disruptions. In those circumstances, we leverage configuration auditing and architecture auditing. Focus is put on the interconnections with OT networks (e.g. IT), through pentesting, and evaluation of the zero-trust models.
Technologies such as Active Directory are more and more common in OT infrastructures, with all the benefits and risks associated with it.
Every situation is different. Let’s talk and see how we can help.
Internal and External Pentesting exercises aim at identifying weaknesses exposed by the organization respectively on the internal and external attack surface. These are the most efficient tools to evaluate the security posture of the organizations’ infrastructures. As such, external and internal pentests are often required as part of SOC2 compliance.
External pentesting engagements mimics the strategies and techniques employed by malicious actors attempting to breach an organization’s network from the outside.
The external attack surface evaluated in these assessments is the assets owned and exposed by the organization directly on internet, whether it is self or externally hosted. Such assessments mimic the techniques and strategies used by malicious opportunistic actors.
Internal pentest exercises aim at simulating an attacker with internal access to the client’s network, in a situation where the external security perimeter has been breached. In these circumstances, attackers with or without credentials could try to compromise internal assets and elevate their privileges to access sensitive information or cause damage.
Internal pentesting engagements are the continuity of external ones.
Identify vulnerabilities in your web based applications before attackers do. Web, API and mobile pentesting assessments allow to identify a wide range of vulnerabilities. A very cost efficient way to evaluate the security stance of your applications and to put it to the test against realistic threats. You might be surprised.
The security of web applications is evaluated through simulated attacks that mimic real-world threat scenarios. The pre-authenticated as well as the authenticated features of the application are evaluated, considering the different roles offered.
Using a combination of manual and semi-automated testing, applications are thoroughly tested to identify potential weaknesses and vulnerabilities, covering all categories of the OWASP and more.
Mobile applications and backend APIs are audited to uncover security issues related to the way data is transmitted, handled, and accessed between systems. The objective is to reveal flaws that could affect the reliability, confidentiality, or proper functioning of mobile services in real-world conditions.
Humans are often described as the weakest link in the security of organizations. Until they’re trained. Our tailored phishing campaigns and social engineering simulations test your team’s awareness and readiness, providing insight and education without compromising morale.
We propose a couple of scenarios and choose one together, each tailored to your environment and threat profile.
Campaigns can be launched in one wave or gradually over time, simulating real-world phishing campaigns.
Users are tested against different types of traps at multiple levels: clicking on a link, entering credentials into a fake login page, downloading an attachment, or even executing a payload.
These aren’t just canned emails. Each campaign is crafted to reflect usual attacker tradecraft by leveraging pretexts, urgency, and familiarity to test how your team reacts.
Once the campaign concludes, we deliver a detailed breakdown of user behavior, success rates, and engagement patterns, backed by clear, actionable metrics. Our goal isn’t to shame, but to inform and train.
Our approach to code review is that it should generally not cost you more than a black-box pentest, but it should provide better results. Code review allows to find vulnerabilities much more rapidly and sometimes that may not be detectable during black-box testing.
Reviewing directly the source code instead of the response of the application, allows security issues to be found directly within the logic and structure of the code.
Moreover, code review is sometimes the only available option to evaluate the quality of a code base in specific constrained systems that cannot be easily tested.
In our experience, code review works the best when associated with pentesting. This dual approach (top-down and bottom-up) allows us to audit the code and trigger the response of the application at the same time.