External Penetration Testing

External penetration testing simulates an attack from outside the organization's network perimeter. The tester starts with no internal access — just like a real attacker — and attempts to find and exploit vulnerabilities in externally-facing systems: websites, APIs, email servers, VPNs, cloud services, and any other internet-accessible infrastructure.

Why It Matters

Your external attack surface is what every attacker in the world can see and target. External pentesting identifies the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be found and exploited by opportunistic attackers, nation-state actors, and automated botnets.

How Redsight Helps

Redsight specializes in external penetration testing. Our agent starts from scratch — just a domain name — and discovers, maps, and tests your entire external attack surface autonomously.

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