Manual Penetration Testing Services USA

Industries we served

Inditex
Dacia
Vueling Airlines
Iberia Airlines
Banca Transilvania
Eni
Repsol
Moncler
Kaufland
Dedeman
BBVA
Poste Italiane
Lidl
Telefonica
Pirelli
Ford Otosan
Men's Health Clinic
ParaMed
RH Insurance
SRJ CPA
Prasad & Company LLP
Negup
LowestRates.ca
Insurance-Canada.ca
Dharna CPA
CQL & Partners
CPA LLP
Cleveland Clinic Canada
Canada's Medical Clinic
Canada Clinics
Zemalt PVT LTD
Broadium
Utho

Why Your Business Needs Real Penetration Testing, Not Just a Scan

Automated scanners can tell you a port is open, but they cannot tell you what happens once an attacker walks through it. Real penetration testing services go further. Our certified ethical hackers think and act like real adversaries, chaining together small weaknesses into the kind of breach that ends up on the front page. If your business handles customer data, processes payments, or stores sensitive records, a one-time scan is not enough to protect it.

Manual exploitation by OSCP and GPEN certified testers, not automated tools alone

Testing aligned with OWASP, NIST SP 800-115, PTES, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks

Real-world attack scenarios built around how attackers actually target your industry

Zero false positives, every finding is validated and proven exploitable

What's at Stake if You Skip Penetration Testing

Proactive Vulnerability Discovery

Find the vulnerabilities attackers would find first, before they do

Simplified Compliance Validation

Meet compliance requirements for SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR with documented testing

Reduced Breach Risk and Financial Impact

Avoid the average $4.8 million cost of a data breach with proactive testing

Executive-Level Risk Visibility

Give your leadership and board a clear, evidence-based picture of your actual risk

Enhanced Cyber Insurance Readiness

Reduce insurance premiums and satisfy cyber insurance requirements with current pentest reports

Our Manual-First Penetration Testing Process

Every engagement follows a structured methodology built on years of hands-on offensive security work. We do not run a scan, copy the output into a template, and call it a report. Each step is performed by a human tester who understands your environment and adapts the attack path as new information surfaces.

Scoping and reconnaissance to map your attack surface and define rules of engagement

Threat modeling to identify the most likely attack paths for your specific business

Manual vulnerability discovery and exploitation across your in-scope systems

Privilege escalation and lateral movement testing to show real-world impact

Evidence collection and proof-of-concept documentation for every validated finding

Detailed reporting with risk ratings, business impact, and remediation guidance

Retesting after fixes are applied to confirm vulnerabilities are fully closed

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Penetration Testing Services We Provide

Network Penetration Testing

We test your internal and external network infrastructure for misconfigurations, weak protocols, and exploitable services that could give an attacker a foothold.

Cloud Penetration Testing

We assess AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments for misconfigured access controls, exposed storage, and identity weaknesses attackers commonly exploit.

External and Internal Infrastructure Testing

From perimeter defenses to internal segmentation, we simulate both outsider attacks and what happens once a threat actor is already inside your network.

Wireless and Physical Security Testing

We evaluate your wireless networks and physical access controls to identify gaps that digital defenses alone cannot cover.

Pluto Security Penetration Testing Services

Built by Testers Who Think Like Attackers

Most cyber security companies in the USA lean heavily on automated scanners and present the results as a penetration test. We do not. Our team holds OSCP, CISSP, GIAC, and GPEN credentials, and every engagement is led by certified professionals who manually probe your systems the way a real attacker would. The result is a report with zero noise, findings that matter, and recommendations your team can act on the same day they receive it. When auditors, boards, or cyber insurers ask for proof, our reports hold up because the work behind them is real.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Get answers to common questions about our cybersecurity services and how we can protect your business.

1.What makes Pluto Security's penetration testing different from an automated vulnerability scan?

A scanner checks your systems against a list of known issues and moves on. Our testers go further. Certified professionals holding OSCP and GPEN credentials manually attack your web apps, networks, APIs, and cloud infrastructure the way a real adversary would, chaining smaller issues into serious exploit paths that a tool would never connect on its own. That is why our reports come back with zero false positives instead of a long list of things your team has to manually verify.

2.How much does a penetration test cost with Pluto Security?

Pricing depends on scope: how many applications, IPs, or cloud accounts are in play, and whether you need black box, gray box, or white box testing. Most US engagements we scope land in the same general range the market sees for manual testing, typically several thousand dollars for a focused web app test up to well into five figures for a full network and cloud assessment. We will give you a fixed quote after a short scoping call, not a guess.

3.How often should my business run a penetration test?

At minimum, once a year, and PCI DSS actually requires it annually if you handle card data. If you are shipping code frequently, migrating to the cloud, or sit in a regulated space like healthcare or finance, we usually recommend testing twice a year or after any major infrastructure change. A test that is a year old tells you almost nothing about the environment you are running today.

4.Will penetration testing disrupt my business operations?

No. We schedule testing windows around your operations, and for production environments we use controlled techniques that avoid taking systems down. If a client wants us to stress a system harder, we agree on that in writing beforehand and monitor closely throughout. You get real findings without the downtime.