Offensive Assurance

Catalyst conducts realistic, multi-phase attack simulations that mirror real-world adversary tradecraft to rigorously test your organisation's detection and response capabilities end-to-end. Our red team engagements are designed assess the effectiveness of security controls, incident response procedures, and defensive team readiness through sophisticated attack scenarios that challenge every layer of your organisation's security capability. These advanced engagements provide critical insights into gaps that attackers could exploit and help mature your security operations through practical testing under realistic conditions.

Our purple team engagements bring offensive and defensive teams together in collaborative attack-and-defend scenarios designed to rapidly improve detection capabilities, identify blind spots, and sharpen incident response procedures. We work alongside your security operations team to execute controlled attack techniques while observing your detection and response capability in real-time. This collaborative approach helps accelerates your security maturity by providing immediate feedback, validating detection rules, and highlighting gaps in monitoring coverage that traditional testing methods might miss.

Catalyst's physical security assessments test the effectiveness of your organisation's physical controls through social engineering, control bypass attempts, and facility breach scenarios to identify weaknesses in human and physical defences. We evaluate access control systems, security awareness, visitor management procedures, and physical perimeter protections to uncover vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorised access to facilities, sensitive areas, or critical systems. Our physical security assessments provide insight into real-world physical security risks that complement digital defences, ensuring you can accurately risk-assess this key attack vector.

Our network infrastructure assessments target both external perimeters and internal digital ecosystems to identify viable attack paths, expose sensitive data, and reveal lateral movement opportunities that attackers could exploit. Catalyst examines network segmentation, firewall configurations, routing security, exposed services, and authentication mechanisms across your digital ecosystem. Catalyst's offensive team combines manual testing techniques with automated reconnaissance to uncover misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to establish persistent access or move laterally through your environment. Our specialists apply practical experience and human insight to identify complex attack chains that automated tools alone would miss.

Catalyst delivers comprehensive security assessments of web applications and APIs through rigorous testing of authentication mechanisms, business logic, and data handling across the entire attack surface. Our team identify vulnerabilities in both common web platforms and custom-built applications, examining authentication flaws, injection vulnerabilities, authorization bypasses, session management issues, and API security weaknesses. We follow industry frameworks while applying decades of operational testing experience and source code analysis to uncover complex logic flaws and chained vulnerabilities that could compromise your applications and the data they protect.

Our cloud security assessments aren't configuration reviews - Catalyst attacks cloud environments from an adversary's perspective, targeting weaknesses in identity and access management, exploiting resource misconfigurations, and attempting to escalate privileges across cloud-native architectures including containers and serverless implementations. Our team manually identify and chain together vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to compromise your cloud infrastructure and exfiltrate sensitive data.

Catalyst performs offensive evaluation of standard operating environments and system builds against security best practices and industry hardening benchmarks to identify configuration weaknesses before deployment. We assess Windows, Linux, and macOS builds, examining security baselines, unnecessary services, patch management procedures, local security policies, and compliance with frameworks like CIS Benchmarks and NIST guidelines. Our platform testing helps you deploy secure, hardened systems that reduce attack surface and meet compliance requirements while maintaining operational functionality.

Our secure code review service provides deep human-led source code analysis to identify security vulnerabilities, coding flaws, and logic errors that traditional testing methods and automated tools fail to detect. Catalyst's experienced consultants examine application source code across multiple languages and frameworks, identifying issues like injection vulnerabilities, authentication flaws, cryptographic weaknesses, race conditions, and business logic errors. This proactive approach catches vulnerabilities during development before they reach production, reducing your remediation costs and improving overall application security posture.

Catalyst conducts comprehensive vulnerability assessments combining automated scanning with manual validation to identify known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security weaknesses across your systems and applications. Our consultants perform thorough vulnerability scans of network infrastructure, web applications, databases, and supporting systems, then manually verify findings to eliminate false positives and provide accurate risk assessments. Our team deliver prioritised remediation guidance based on exploitability, business impact, and compliance requirements to help you address vulnerabilities efficiently and effectively.

Our wireless infrastructure assessments evaluate WiFi networks for security weaknesses including rogue access points, weak encryption, segmentation issues, and flaws that could result in unauthorised network access. Catalyst examines wireless network configurations, authentication mechanisms, encryption standards, guest network isolation, and wireless intrusion prevention systems to identify vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to gain network access. We test for both external and internal wireless threats to help you secure your wireless infrastructure against modern attack techniques.