Real-world adversary simulation by certified ethical hackers — finding and exploiting your vulnerabilities before threat actors do. PTES-aligned, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped, with clear evidence of impact and a prioritized remediation roadmap. Serving DC businesses, federal contractors, and regulated organizations across the DMV.
Every engagement is tailored to DC market realities — regulatory complexity, competitive density, and client expectations.
An adversary-perspective attack against your internet-facing infrastructure — identifying what an external attacker can reach, exploit, and pivot from without any prior access to your environment.
Simulates an insider threat or post-breach attacker scenario — assuming initial foothold inside your network and testing how far an attacker can move, escalate privileges, and reach critical assets.
Manual, OWASP-aligned testing of your web applications and APIs — going beyond automated scanners to find business logic flaws, authentication bypasses, and injection vulnerabilities that tools routinely miss.
Full adversary emulation engagements that test your people, processes, and technology simultaneously — measuring not just whether you can be compromised, but whether your detection and response capabilities would catch it.
Human-layer attack testing — phishing campaigns, vishing calls, and physical intrusion attempts that measure whether your employees and physical controls hold up under realistic attack scenarios.
Specialized testing for mobile applications (iOS and Android) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) — addressing the attack surfaces most frequently overlooked in traditional assessments.
We're based at 1717 N Street NW in DC. We understand local compliance, federal contracting nuance, and what DC clients expect — and we've built our process around it.
Our pentesters hold OSCP, CRTO, GPEN, CEH, and GWAPT certifications — and more importantly, have real-world attack and defense experience, not just exam credentials.
Automated tools find the obvious. Our testers find the business logic flaws, misconfigurations, and chained vulnerabilities that scanners always miss — because those are what real attackers exploit.
Every report includes an executive summary with business risk narrative, a technical findings section with reproduction steps, and a remediation roadmap — clearly separated so each audience gets what they need.
Reports are formatted to satisfy NIST CSF, CMMC, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and FedRAMP requirements for penetration testing evidence — reducing friction with your next audit.
After remediation, we retest all critical and high findings at no additional charge — confirming fixes actually work before you report remediation to auditors or clients.
We define clear rules of engagement before any testing begins. No production disruption, no out-of-scope systems touched, with an emergency contact process and real-time communication throughout.
Numbers that reflect real business impact — not vanity metrics.
A transparent, milestone-driven engagement from first call to launch.
We define exactly what's in scope (IP ranges, domains, applications, user roles), what's explicitly out of scope, testing windows, emergency contacts, and acceptable techniques. You sign off before any testing begins. No ambiguity, no surprises.
We map your attack surface using passive and active reconnaissance — OSINT, DNS enumeration, certificate transparency, port scanning, service fingerprinting, and technology identification. This phase often surfaces forgotten assets, shadow IT, and exposed credentials before we've even launched an attack.
Our testers actively exploit discovered vulnerabilities, chain weaknesses together to maximize impact, and demonstrate exactly what an attacker could achieve. Every finding is documented with step-by-step reproduction evidence, screenshots, and payload examples.
We deliver a full findings report within 48–72 hours of testing completion — executive summary, technical findings with CVSS scores and MITRE ATT&CK mappings, and a prioritized remediation roadmap. We then walk through every finding in a live debrief session and retest critical issues after remediation.
Common questions from DC businesses considering Penetration Testing.
Schedule a free 30-minute scoping call. We'll define exactly what a penetration test looks like for your environment, what it costs, and what you'll receive — before you commit to anything.
Based at 1717 N Street NW, Washington, DC · hello@thoriumdc.com · (301) 337-7268