Essential Eight Penetration Testing
Prove Your Controls Actually Work.
CREST-accredited penetration testing that validates your Essential Eight controls by attempting to bypass application whitelisting, exploit unpatched systems, escalate privileges, and circumvent MFA to prove real-world effectiveness.
- Penetration testing that validates your Essential Eight controls under real attack conditions, from ML1 through ML3.
- Exploit-driven evidence showing exactly where your mitigation strategies fail and how to fix them.
- Fixed-price scoping with zero hidden fees.
What You're Getting
Transparent methodology. Tangible deliverables. No surprises.
Exploit-Driven Strategy Testing
Active penetration testing across all eight strategies: bypassing application whitelisting, exploiting unpatched systems, escalating admin privileges, and circumventing MFA to prove where your controls fail.
Maturity-Mapped Reporting
Findings tied to specific maturity levels (ML1–ML3) with proof-of-concept evidence, risk scoring, and a prioritised remediation roadmap showing exactly what's needed to reach your target maturity.
Macro, Hardening & Backup Testing
Dedicated testing of Office macro restrictions, user application hardening effectiveness, and backup integrity, validating that your defensive controls hold up against real-world attacker techniques.
Why Stratus Security
Senior-Led. Locally Based. Battle-Tested.
When you engage Stratus, you get a 100% local, senior-led team of certified penetration testers, not junior interns learning on the job at your expense. Every assessment is personally overseen by CREST-certified consultants with years of hands-on security testing experience.
We're small enough to give you dedicated, named engineers on every engagement, but experienced enough to have completed hundreds of penetration tests across regulated industries including financial services, government, healthcare, and SaaS. Your environment deserves the same level of scrutiny we'd apply to our own.
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