Penetration Testing in Drexel, NC
Manual, exploit-driven security testing for organizations in Drexel. Fixed price, audit-ready reports mapped to PCI DSS 4.0, and a free remediation retest.
What you actually get from a penetration test
CyberFortify runs manual web, API, network and cloud penetration tests for Drexel organizations, with findings mapped to PCI DSS 4.0 and the other frameworks North Carolina businesses answer to.
A penetration test answers one question a scan cannot: what could an attacker actually reach, and how far could they get once inside. Organizations in Drexel across Burke County operate within North Carolina’s economy of banking and finance, biotech and pharma and technology, and the systems that run that work — customer-facing applications, the APIs beneath them and the networks they sit on — are exactly what CyberFortify is engaged to test.
The findings that change a roadmap are almost never the ones a tool ranks highest. In Drexel engagements they are the quiet ones: a session that survives a password reset, a role that can read another tenant, a bucket reachable without the app in front of it. Those take a person to find.
The threats facing Drexel organizations
North Carolina’s economy is not one thing, and neither is its risk. These are the sectors we most often test for Drexel organizations, and what an attacker goes after in each.
Financial services
Banks, credit unions, insurers, fintechs and payment companies are the most directly targeted sector there is, because the payoff is immediate. Attackers pursue account-takeover, business email compromise and wire fraud, and the systems in scope — online banking, payment APIs, lending platforms — sit under GLBA, the FTC Safeguards Rule and PCI DSS at once.
We test authentication and transaction logic for account-takeover and authorization flaws, payment and API flows for business-logic abuse, and the internal paths a fraudster or compromised employee would take toward money movement and customer data.
Life sciences and pharma
Biotech, pharmaceutical and medical-device organizations run on intellectual property — research data, trial results, formulations and device firmware — that is valuable to competitors and nation-state actors alike. Regulated environments add data-integrity obligations under 21 CFR Part 11, where an unauthorized change to a record is as serious as its theft.
We test the applications and cloud environments holding research and trial data, the identity boundaries between research and corporate networks, and, where relevant, the device-to-backend paths that carry regulated data, with data integrity assessed alongside confidentiality.
Penetration testing services for Drexel
Most engagements combine two or three of these, scoped to where a compromise would cost Drexel the most.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Broken access control, cross-tenant authorization and business logic, tested by hand.
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Device-side controls and the server they are supposed to protect.
API Penetration Testing
The BOLA, token-lifetime and rate-limit flaws that break APIs in production.
Network Penetration Testing
Perimeter exposure and internal domain compromise paths, mapped end to end.
OT & ICS Penetration Testing
The IT/OT boundary, tested without putting operations at risk.
Cloud Penetration Testing
Configuration and identity review across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Evidence for the frameworks North Carolina businesses answer to
Given North Carolina’s banking, biotech and pharma, technology and manufacturing, these are the frameworks a Drexel engagement most often produces evidence for. One test, evidence for all of them.
PCI DSS 4.0
The annual and post-change testing the standard requires, scoped correctly.
HIPAA
Testing the portals, APIs and systems that hold protected health information.
SOC 2
Independent evidence for the Common Criteria and the vendor reviews that gate deals.
How a Drexel engagement runs
The same sequence every time, so the result is defensible.
Testing aligns to PTES and NIST SP 800-115, application work follows OWASP, and exploitation maps to MITRE ATT&CK. Automated tooling enumerates the surface; a named tester confirms every finding by hand.
Findings your team can fix and your auditor accepts
Every finding is reproducible, scored in context, and tied to the control it defeats.
The example alongside is illustrative — not from a client engagement — to show how each issue is documented and mapped to PCI DSS 4.0 and the standards North Carolina organizations answer to.
| Ref | Finding | Severity | CVSS |
|---|---|---|---|
| F-01 | IDOR exposes cross-tenant records | Critical | 9.1 |
| F-02 | Over-privileged service account | High | 8.2 |
| F-03 | Session persists after reset | Medium | 5.4 |
| F-04 | Verbose error disclosure | Low | 3.1 |
What sets a Drexel engagement with us apart
A scan-and-report vendor
Automated output rebadged as a test. Severities the tool assigned, findings you cannot reproduce, no real attempt at authorization logic or privilege escalation — and a report your assessor hands back. The retest is a new invoice.
CyberFortify
A named tester who works the target by hand, chains findings to prove real impact, and writes them so a Drexel engineer can fix them and an auditor can accept them. Fixed price, same-day critical escalation, retest included.
Penetration testing in Drexel, answered
Is testing done on-site in Drexel or remotely?
Usually not. Web, API, cloud, mobile and external network testing is delivered remotely from our US-based team, which is how most Drexel engagements run. Internal network, wireless and physical assessments are the cases where we come on-site, and travel is quoted up front.
How is pricing set for a Drexel engagement?
It depends on scope rather than where you are. We count applications, cloud accounts, hosts and distinct roles, then quote one fixed price after a short scoping call — typically within the hour, with no hourly meter afterward.
Can we hand the report straight to our assessor?
Yes. Every finding carries reproduction steps, CVSS v3.1 scoring and a control mapping, so an assessor can trace a requirement to the test that exercised it. For North Carolina organizations that most often means PCI DSS 4.0, and we scope to the evidence your assessor expects.
What do you focus on for Financial services organizations?
We test authentication and transaction logic for account-takeover and authorization flaws, payment and API flows for business-logic abuse, and the internal paths a fraudster or compromised employee would take toward money movement and customer data. In a Drexel engagement that usually starts with account-takeover and mfa bypass and works outward from there.
Can you sign our vendor security questionnaire?
Yes. We complete SIG, CAIQ and custom questionnaires and can join the vendor review call. For Drexel companies selling into larger enterprises, a current test plus a completed questionnaire is usually what unblocks the deal.
How quickly can you begin in Drexel?
Lead time is usually one to two weeks once scope is set, less if an audit or customer deadline is pressing. The scoping call is where we lock the price and the date.
Penetration testing near Drexel
We work across North Carolina. See nearby cities or the full state overview.
Test your Drexel systems before someone else does.
A 30-minute scoping call gets you a fixed price and a start date, usually within the hour.