Penetration Testing Atlanta, GA
Safe, real-world testing of your network the way an attacker would approach it, delivered with prioritized findings and remediation guidance you can act on.
UniVirtual Solutions performs penetration testing for businesses in Atlanta and across Georgia. A vulnerability scan lists known weaknesses; a penetration test attempts the exploitation, and establishes what an attacker actually reaches and how far they can move afterwards. You receive prioritized findings and remediation guidance, not a severity list.
A Vulnerability Scan Is Not A Penetration Test
The distinction matters commercially, because the two are frequently sold as though they were the same thing. A vulnerability scan enumerates known weaknesses and produces a list, often a long one, sorted by a severity score that has no knowledge of your environment. It tells you what might be exploitable in theory.
A penetration test attempts the exploitation. It establishes whether a weakness can actually be used, what an attacker reaches once they use it, and how far they can move afterwards. That is a different question, and it is the one your insurer and your clients are really asking.
The practical difference shows up in the report. A scan tells you that a service is out of date. A test tells you that the out-of-date service allowed a foothold, that the foothold reached a credential store, and that the credential store opened the finance share. One is a list. The other is a story you can prioritize against.
How A Test Runs, Safely
Testing is conducted so that it proves exposure without creating it. Nothing is left behind and nothing goes down.
We agree what is in scope, what is explicitly out, and the window in which testing runs. Surprises are the one thing a test should never produce.
Internal and external network penetration testing with real exploitation, informed by vulnerability context taken from your own environment.
Credential, privilege-escalation and lateral-movement testing establishes how far an initial foothold actually reaches.
Prioritized findings with clear remediation guidance, in both executive and technical formats, plus a portal for results and on-demand retesting.
What You Receive
A clean, documented test is increasingly a condition of cyber insurance coverage rather than a nice-to-have.
- Internal and external network penetration testing with real exploitation, not just scanning
- Credential, privilege-escalation and lateral-movement testing
- Vulnerability context from your environment feeding the test rather than a generic template
- Prioritized findings ordered by real risk to your business, not by raw severity score
- Clear remediation guidance written for the person who has to implement it
- An executive report your board, insurer or client can read
- A technical report your engineers can work from directly
- A client portal for results and scheduling, with on-demand retesting inside your license
What This Covers And What It Does Not
This engagement covers automated internal and external network penetration testing with genuine exploitation. That is the test most businesses need and the one most insurers ask about.
Manual web-application testing, PCI manual testing and full red-team engagements are quoted separately. They are different disciplines with different timescales, and bundling them into a network test would misrepresent what you are getting.
What This Means Where You Work
Law Firms
Corporate clients increasingly ask whether their firm has been tested. Having a current, clean report answers a procurement question that would otherwise stall an engagement.
Distribution & Logistics
Retail and healthcare customers push testing requirements down the supply chain, and a current report is often a condition of renewal.
Manufacturing
Defense and aerospace supply chains ask for evidence rather than assurance, and testing is the evidence that carries weight.
The Remediation Matters More Than The Report
Plenty of firms will sell you a test and hand over a document. The finding that never gets fixed is worth nothing, and a year later you buy another test that finds the same thing.
Because we also run the environment for most clients, remediation is not somebody else’s problem. Findings go into the same roadmap we already manage, and retesting confirms the fix rather than assuming it.
Questions We Get Asked
What clients ask before booking their first penetration test. Scoping question not covered here? Our engineers will discuss it with you at 678-374-4352.
No. Testing is conducted inside an agreed window and designed to prove exposure without creating an outage. Scope and timing are agreed before anything begins.
Annually for most businesses, and after any significant change to your network, identity platform or perimeter. Some insurers and clients specify their own frequency.
A scan lists what might be exploitable. A test attempts the exploitation and tells you what an attacker would actually reach. Our engagement includes real exploitation.
Yes. On-demand retesting is included within your license, so a finding can be verified as closed rather than assumed.
Automated network testing is included. Manual web-application testing, PCI manual testing and red-team engagements are scoped and quoted separately.
Almost always yes. Carriers are asking whether an independent, exploitation-based test has been run against your network within the last twelve months, and whether the findings were remediated. This engagement produces exactly that evidence, in a format an underwriter accepts, and the retest confirms the remediation actually landed.
We stop and tell you immediately rather than saving it for the report. A critical finding that gives an attacker a route into finance or client data is an immediate phone call, with containment guidance attached, because a report delivered two weeks later would be negligent.
Certified Engineers Across Georgia
Penetration tests are scoped and run for businesses across metro Atlanta and Georgia, including Marietta, Alpharetta, Macon, Columbus, Augusta and Savannah. Most of the work is done remotely, with an engineer on site only when a finding or a fix needs someone in the room. We also test for clients in Tampa, Orlando and Fort Myers.
Penetration Testing Atlanta: What To Look For
Judge a penetration testing provider by the commitments it will put in the scope document, not by the sales pitch. Ask whether the test attempts real exploitation, or simply runs a vulnerability scan and calls it a penetration test.
Ask what is in scope, what is explicitly out, and when testing runs. Ask for findings ranked by real risk, in executive and technical formats, with retesting to confirm each fix. Each finding is referenced to NIST CSF, CISA guidance and CIS v8, as each applies, so the report doubles as evidence for an auditor or a cyber insurance renewal.
Our own bar for the penetration testing Atlanta clients buy from us is simple: a safe test that proves exposure without creating it, and remediation that goes into a roadmap somebody actually manages. We scope each test around the systems that would actually hurt you.
Find Out Whether Your Defenses Actually Hold
A real test, a prioritized report, and remediation guidance you can act on. Book a conversation with an engineer to scope your test. Penetration testing in Atlanta is only useful if somebody fixes what it finds.