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Atlan Digital Research and Development Limited
86-90 Paul Street
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EC2A 4NE

Offensive Security

Consulting Services

We provide a range of top flight security consulting services, focused on bespoke vulnerability identification and security penetration testing across the technology, people and process layers.

Services Index

Key service offerings

We help organisations validate real-world resilience, reduce time-to-detection, and ship safer systems through high-fidelity security testing and targeted engineering support.

Use the services index above to jump into the specific engagement type you need, from adversary simulation to LLM security evaluation.

All of our methodologies are AI-enabled: every engagement pairs senior operators with machine learning and automation built in-house, extending coverage and pace without diluting rigour.

Adversary simulation & Red Team

Adversary simulation and red team

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Full-spectrum red team engagements, methodologies, and controls assessed.

Metric-Centric, Repeatable Approach

Our consultants have experience delivering on regulated adversary simulation engagements under the CBEST, TBEST, TIBER-EU and other frameworks, so we understand threat intelligence led security testing.

Our adversary simulation capabilities are designed for organizations with extremely high threat profiles, where realism, control and repeatability are non-negotiable.

What We Test

We can mount attacks against the People, Process and Technology layers in full spectrum threat actor simulations where the following controls are assessed:

Perimeter Controls

  • Employee Security Awareness and Phishing resilience
  • Email Filtering
  • Email Anti-Spoofing Mechanisms
  • DNS Filtering
  • Web (HTTP / HTTPS) Filtering
  • Network Filtering

Workstation Controls

  • Workstation Hardening
  • Antivirus / Anti-Malware
  • Application Whitelisting
  • Protection of Privileged Accounts - Local Administrators
  • Application Security Settings
  • Employee Laptop Protection

Internal Controls

  • Malicious Network Activity Detection
  • Monitoring and Incident Response
  • Protection of Privileged Accounts - Domain Administrators
  • Protection of Privileged Accounts
  • Protection of Service Accounts
  • Domain Security Policy
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Patch Management Policy
  • Weak Password Policy
  • Network Segregation

Cyber High-Level Methodology

Our methodologies are mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. We typically follow a six step model working our way from out to in, to fully assess operational impact.

1. Recon

Profiling, SharpInfo Pretexts, OSINT

2. Exploitation

Phishing, EDR Evasion, Command Execution and C2 Callback

3. Privilege Escalation

Active Directory Enumeration, Workstation & Network Share Enumeration – patch levels, password policy, file shares, ADCS

4. Lateral movement

SharpHound, AzureHound, Certify, WinRM, RDP, AdXplorer, SharpML, SharpSniper.

5. Persistence

Registry, WMI, VPN, Scheduled Tasks, COM, ‘Living off the land’, DMZ Web Shells.

6. Operational impact

Comprehensive Reporting and Presentation around business and operational impact.

Identity-Based Red Teaming (2025/2026)

Identity control planes now define blast radius. We test how attackers chain identity, SaaS, and cloud trust to move laterally without noisy infrastructure compromise.

IdP & SaaS Control Plane

IdP & SaaS Control Plane

Assess identity provider configurations, SaaS admin surfaces, and governance gaps that enable persistence.

Privilege & Trust Pathing

Privilege & Trust Pathing

Map trust relationships, service principals, and role sprawl across hybrid estates to expose escalation paths.

Token & Session Security

Token & Session Security

Test session lifecycle controls, conditional access, and token hygiene to reduce identity-driven lateral movement.

Operator Tooling & R&D

Our R&D is embedded in this work: we operate our own Turul GAN and Turul C2 stack, and we build bespoke tooling for mission-specific tradecraft. Explore our R&D program.

Physical Intrusion Methodology

When performing Red Team assessments in the United States, or where our client requires a physical component, our methodology is outlined below.

1. Recon

Planning, Long and Short Range Reconnaissance

2. Preparation

Operational Planning, Intelligence Review, Resourcing

3. Mobilisation & Staging

Suit Up, Test equipment, Comms, Deploy

4. Manoeuvre Operations

Environmental Conditions, Observation, Cover & Concealment, Signaling

5. Strike and Penetrate

Character Change, Movement, Establish Position, Execution, SITREP, Mission Standing.

6. Operational impact

Comprehensive Reporting and Presentation around business and operational impact.

Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Infrastructure penetration testing

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Network, infrastructure, and cloud testing with a four-phase approach.

Network, Infrastructure & Cloud

Whether you are a digital asset provider with some Azure cloud infrastructure, or an international telecoms organisation with hundreds of thousands of public IPs, we can thoroughly assess your network infrastructure (on-prem or cloud) with expert level attack coverage.

We cover hybrid estates across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focusing on exposed services, identity pathways, segmentation gaps, and cloud control-plane misconfigurations that drive real-world risk.

On-Prem Infrastructure

On-Prem Infrastructure

Assess routing, segmentation, legacy services, and internal attack paths across critical systems.

Cloud Environments

Cloud Environments

Test cloud posture, identity controls, storage exposure, and control-plane security in AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Hybrid Attack Surface

Hybrid Attack Surface

Validate cross-environment pivots, VPN and SD-WAN boundaries, and shared identity trust.

  1. Scope

    Atlan Digital R&D works with you to develop a detailed scope of the penetration testing to be undertaken.

  2. Recon

    In the first phase Atlan Digital R&D will perform OSINT, analysing the routing mechanisms, and then all your systems will be scanned for all active TCP and UDP ports and we will establish the security rule-base.

  3. Exploit

    In the exploitation phase Atlan Digital R&D will iteratively identify and exploit vulnerable systems using public vulnerability information, and configuration & design errors. A scenario analysis over the entire network is conducted.

  4. Report

    In the final phase Atlan Digital R&D will perform comprehensive reporting of the issues identified. The risks will be rated according to numeric CVSS scores alongside an internal qualitative risk grading.

Web Application Penetration Testing

Web application penetration testing

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OWASP/PTES-informed testing across application layers and controls.

360° Coverage on Web Application Pen Tests

Enterprise applications, e-commerce platforms, trading systems, SaaS platforms and other web first components dominate the corporate landscape. We work to comprehensively assess their security posture for known and unknown security vulnerabilities.

Methodology

Our methodology is built upon the PTES and the OWASP TOP 10 Framework, also informed by our team’s experience of conducting 100s of application tests.

Fingerprinting

Mapping web app, hosts, content scripts and files. Source code analysis, developer commands, client side validation, applet and class decompilation.

Platform Enumeration

Exploit known OS and application vulnerabilities. Attempt to use default insecure configurations.

Application Functionality

Circumvent application normal processing through parameter poisoning, directory traversal, XXE, HTML form modification, SQL command insertions, unauthorized database access and database corruptions.

Authentication

Cookie examination, session re-use, sensitive cached information. Intrusive account testing including brute forcing user accounts and password attacks.

Reporting

Comprehensive reporting risk rated by both CVSS3 and Atlan.

LLM Penetration Testing

LLM penetration testing

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Security testing for LLM applications and frontier model risks.

Application Security & Frontier Model Safety

We provide dedicated security testing for LLM applications and frontier models, combining red teaming methodologies with application security review to identify model misuse, data exposure and control failures.

LLM Application Security Testing

Prompt injection, data exfiltration, tool abuse, retrieval risks, agent workflow manipulation and guardrail bypass testing for production LLM applications.

LLM AppSec Review

Threat modelling, access control verification, RAG pipeline review, prompt and system message analysis, and evaluation of output filtering and monitoring.

Frontier Model Testing

Safety red teaming, misuse pathway discovery and evaluation of jailbreak resilience, autonomy risks and high-impact capability safeguards.

Model Evaluation & Governance

Evaluation harness design, red team scenario planning, policy testing and reporting aligned to organisational risk governance.

Mobile Penetration Testing

Mobile penetration testing

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Android and iOS testing methodology from planning to dynamic analysis.

Mobile Application – Android & iOS

As an extension of web applications, mobile applications can allow extended functionality, whether as a transaction signing mechanism, custom 2 factor authentication solution, or thick client providing business critical functions, we inspect these applications at the deepest levels.

Penetration Testing Mobile Application Android and iOS

OWASP Top 10 – Mobile

While specific techniques exist for individual platforms, a general mobile threat model is used by Atlan Digital R&D when creating a mobile security testing methodology for any platform.

Prerequisites/Planning

Tasks and requirements before conducting the mobile security assessment.

Information Gathering

The steps and considerations in the early reconnaissance and mapping phases of testing.

Static Analysis

Analyzing raw mobile source code, decompiled or disassembled code.

Dynamic Analysis

Executing an application either on the device or within a simulator/emulator and interacting with the remote services. Includes local inter-process communication surface, forensic analysis of the local filesystem, and remote service dependencies.

ICS Penetration Testing

ICS and SCADA penetration testing

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SCADA and critical infrastructure assessments with staged testing.

Industrial Control Systems (SCADA)

Critical infrastructure provides much of the backbone of a city’s, or even a country’s successful operational ability. In troubling times, these systems can be high priority targets for nation states or advanced cyber criminal groups. We can apply our methodologies to help identify weak points and security risks to allow you to mitigate them.

  1. Scope

    • Define business purpose of engagement
    • Determine sensitivity of business functions and processes
    • Create and agree ICS business process model
    • Confirm specific systems, devices and infrastructure in scope
    • Confirm composition of testing team
  2. Assess

    • Gather threat intelligence
    • Conduct threat modelling exercise
    • Determine major vulnerabilities
    • Assess risks and priorities
    • Agree risk-based approach to testing
  3. Discovery

    • Conduct ICS device discovery exercise
    • Determine network topology
    • Gather and review ICS network and device configuration information
    • Create and agree ICS technical infrastructure model
  4. Test Plan

    • Create test scenarios
    • Determine offline and online tests
    • Determine resource requirements
    • Create and agree progressive test schedule
  5. Live Testing

    • Undertake and document offline and online tests
    • Analyse test results and consolidate findings
    • Document ICS environment remediation recommendations
    • Review findings with key stakeholders

Secure Code Review

Secure code review

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Manual and automated review across modern stacks and SDLC guidance.

JavaScript, Ruby, Infra as code, NodeJS, Python, .NET, C/C++

Finding security vulnerabilities before applications reach deployment stage is critical. We can work with your developers collaboratively to bake in security or even help you develop a Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Secure code review

Secure Code Review:

Reviews are performed in alignment with industry proven best practices, guidelines and standards from organisations such as OWASP, MITRE, CERT and NIST.

Prerequisites/Planning

Evaluating tasks and requirements for conducting the code review, as well as assessing the application’s magnitude and scope of effort required.

Static Analysis

Analysing raw source code, using manual techniques and automated scanners that highlight code hotspots.

Developer & Architect Interviews

We work closely with developers to expedite understanding of the code and architecture, and provide knowledge transfer.

Information Gathering

Review of the application’s supporting documentation and development guidelines, identifying intended purpose, functionality and development approach.

Dynamic Analysis

Working in combination with static analysis; we perform dynamic analysis of the code where it is unreachable statically or where efficiency is improved dynamically.

Software Development

Security software development

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Custom security tooling, ML-enabled capabilities, and bespoke development.

Custom Software, Machine Learning & Tooling

With many of our consultants having contributed to the security community, or having been full time developers themselves, we can respond to requests to develop programmatic solutions where cyber security domain knowledge is essential.

SharpML

Example Capability – SharpML:

SharpML employs C# to mine Active Directory file shares, while bundling a resource file. This resource file is a custom Machine Learning algorithm written in Python (compiled with Pyinstaller) whose logic uses Clustering and Classification to evaluate the likelihood of User / Password combinations and subsequently automatically test these against a Domain Controller to assist operators in identifying passwords littered on fileshares.

A version of this tool had been open sourced by the consultants when at Hunnic Cyber, but Version 2, wherein further developments have been made internally by Atlan Digital R&D, can be requested. The write up can be viewed here. Our research outline around building a Generative Adversarial Network for Malware Development can be viewed here.

Penetration Testing

We can develop solutions to complement our manual testing activities to enable a client to be tested 24/7, 365 days of the year.

Red Team & Malware Development

We can assist clients or other consultancies in developing tooling to enhance security testing activities.

Machine Learning & Automation

As part of our consulting efforts we can develop solutions to help automate security tasks, continuous security scanning tools, or apply machine learning to security problem solving.

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Whether you represent a corporate, a consultancy, a government or an MSSP, we’d love to hear from you. To discover just how our offensive security contractors could help, get in touch.