Penetration Testing Services
Expert-led penetration testing that simulates real-world attacks against your network, applications, and people, finding vulnerabilities before attackers do.
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When Was Your Last Real Security Test?
Vulnerability scanners find known issues. Penetration testing finds the gaps that automated tools miss, the ones attackers actually exploit.
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Relying on Automated Scans Vulnerability scanners find known CVEs but cannot chain vulnerabilities, test business logic, or simulate attacker creativity. Real threats require real testing.
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Compliance Checkbox Mentality Your annual pen test is treated as a compliance formality rather than a genuine security exercise. The same vendor runs the same automated tests and produces the same generic report.
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No Social Engineering Testing Your technical defenses are tested but nobody tests whether your employees will click a phishing link, share credentials, or let someone tailgate into the server room.
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Generic Reports Without Priorities You receive a 200-page automated scan report with no context about which findings actually matter to your business. No prioritization, no attack narratives, no remediation guidance.
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No Remediation Support Your pen test vendor finds vulnerabilities and disappears. You are left to figure out how to fix them with no guidance, no retesting, and no verification that fixes work.
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Infrequent Testing You test once a year for compliance. In the eleven months between tests, new vulnerabilities are introduced with every change to your environment.
Our penetration testing team finds what scanners miss. Here is what a real security test looks like.
Expert-Led Penetration Testing
Penetration testing simulates real-world attacks against your organization to find vulnerabilities before attackers do. At BALANCED+, our pen testing team combines automated scanning with manual expert testing to deliver findings that are accurate, prioritized, and actionable, not a generic scan dump.
Network Penetration Testing
We test your external and internal network defenses using the same techniques real attackers use. External testing targets your public-facing infrastructure, firewalls, VPN endpoints, web applications, and DNS. Internal testing simulates what an attacker can achieve after gaining initial access, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and access to sensitive data. We identify misconfigurations, unpatched vulnerabilities, weak credentials, and network segmentation gaps that could be exploited in a real attack.
Web Application Testing
Our application testing follows OWASP methodology to identify SQL injection, cross-site scripting, authentication bypasses, authorization flaws, and business logic vulnerabilities in your web applications and APIs. This goes beyond automated scanning, our testers manually explore your applications to find the complex, chained vulnerabilities that scanners cannot detect.
Social Engineering
Your employees are often the weakest link in your security. We conduct phishing simulations, pretexting calls, and physical social engineering assessments to test your human defenses. Results are used to improve your security awareness training and identify departments or individuals who need additional education.
Actionable Reporting
Every penetration test delivers a detailed report with executive summary, technical findings, attack narratives showing exploitation chains, risk ratings mapped to business impact, and specific remediation guidance. We prioritize findings by actual exploitability and business risk, not just CVSS scores. After you remediate, we retest to verify fixes are effective.
What's Included
Network Penetration Testing
External perimeter testing and internal network assessment. Vulnerability identification, exploitation, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. Testing of firewalls, VPN, and network segmentation.
Application & API Testing
OWASP Top 10 methodology. Manual testing for SQL injection, XSS, authentication bypass, and business logic flaws. API security testing for REST and SOAP endpoints.
Social Engineering
Phishing simulations targeting employees. Pretexting and vishing campaigns. Physical security testing. Results used to improve security awareness training and identify risk areas.
The BALANCED+ pen test found a chain of three vulnerabilities that individually seemed low-risk but together gave full access to our client database. Our previous vendor's automated scan had rated all three as "informational." That finding alone was worth the investment.
How It Works
Scope & Plan
We define the scope, which systems, applications, and techniques are in play. Rules of engagement are documented and signed. Testing windows are scheduled to minimize business impact.
Test
Our team conducts the penetration test using a combination of automated scanning and manual expert techniques. Critical findings discovered during testing are reported immediately.
Report
You receive a detailed report with executive summary, technical findings, attack narratives, risk ratings, and specific remediation guidance. We walk your team through the findings in a debrief session.
Remediate & Retest
After you implement fixes, we retest to verify remediation is effective. A clean retest report provides the compliance evidence that auditors require.
Why Choose BALANCED+ for Pen Testing
Our penetration testing combines automated efficiency with human expertise for findings that are accurate, prioritized, and actionable.
Expert-Led Testing
Actionable Reports
Free Retesting
Full Remediation Support
Results That Speak for Themselves
Building a SaaS Business Management Platform from the Ground Up
A consultant-focused SaaS startup needed a full development partner to turn their platform vision into reality. BALANCED+ delivered end-to-end, from UX design to cloud architecture.
Rebuilding a Legacy Database for a Commercial Window Manufacturer
A 30-year fenestration manufacturer's outdated backend was slowing operations and driving up costs. BALANCED+ rebuilt their data access layer from the ground up, on time…
Securing a Global Mining Corporation’s Firewall Infrastructure
A publicly traded multinational mining company with operations across North America and Europe was drowning in unmanaged firewall policies. BALANCED+ centralized, rationalized, and took over…
Compliance & Certifications
Penetration testing is required or recommended by virtually every major compliance framework. Our testing methodology and reporting satisfy audit requirements across all major standards.
- SOC 2: Annual penetration testing requirement for security controls validation
- ISO 27001: Technical vulnerability management and security testing controls
- PCI DSS: Requirement 11.3 for annual penetration testing of cardholder data environments
- PIPEDA: Security safeguard testing for personal information protection
Coast to Coast IT & Cybersecurity
Headquartered in Mississauga. Rooted in Toronto. Expanding to Vancouver. Serving businesses across Canada with the same standard of excellence.
Toronto
Greater Toronto Area & Southern Ontario
3464 Semenyk Ct, Unit 101Mississauga, ON L5C 4P8
Canada
- Mississauga
- Toronto
- Vaughan
- Brampton
- Oakville
- Burlington
- Hamilton
- Markham
- Kitchener
- British Columbia
- Alberta
- Saskatchewan
- Manitoba
- Ontario
- Québec
- Atlantic Canada
Frequently Asked Questions
A vulnerability scan is an automated tool that identifies known vulnerabilities in your systems. A penetration test uses human expertise to actually exploit those vulnerabilities, chain them together, and demonstrate real-world impact. Pen testing finds complex attack paths, business logic flaws, and configuration weaknesses that automated scanners cannot detect.
At minimum, annually for compliance purposes. We recommend testing after major infrastructure changes, application deployments, or cloud migrations. Ongoing vulnerability scanning between annual pen tests provides continuous visibility into your security posture.
Testing is carefully scoped and scheduled to minimize impact. We define rules of engagement before testing begins, avoid destructive techniques, and schedule intensive testing during off-hours when possible. Critical findings are reported immediately so you can take action without waiting for the final report.
We offer external network testing, internal network testing, web application testing, API testing, social engineering (phishing, vishing, physical), wireless network testing, and cloud environment testing. Scope is customized to your environment and compliance requirements.
Yes. Retesting is included in our engagement. After you remediate identified vulnerabilities, we retest to verify fixes are effective and provide a clean report that demonstrates remediation for compliance purposes.
Our testing team holds industry-recognized certifications including OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker), and GPEN (GIAC Penetration Tester). More importantly, they have years of real-world testing experience across diverse environments and industries.
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