Appurity’s approach
Appurity delivers continuous, attacker-led security validation that reflects how breaches actually happen.
Expose
Expose
Expose how attackers
would move through your environment
Test
Test
Test credential, directory, and ransomware risk in organisations
Validate
Validate
Validate whether detection
and response controls perform under real conditions
Guidance
Guidance
Provide clear,
prioritised remediation guidance
This gives security teams and auditors evidence of how controls perform in the real world.
The challenge: Traditional penetration testing provides a snapshot in time, but passwords are leaked daily, ransomware evolves constantly, and attackers exploit misconfigurations and trust relationships that change as environments grow.
By the time the next annual pen test arrives, the environment is already different.
Static Snapshots
Traditional annual tests become obsolete the moment your users, apps, or configurations change.
Assumed Safety
Organizations often rely on the assumption that controls work rather than proving they can stop a live attack.
What we test
How it’s delivered
Baseline Exposure Assessment
We begin by identifying your true attack surface, which often extends far beyond the official asset register. This phase involves:
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Asset Discovery: Mapping every endpoint, server, and cloud instance, including “shadow IT” and forgotten legacy systems.
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Identity Mapping: Identifying high-privileged accounts, service accounts, and weak authentication points that serve as primary entry vectors.
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Path Analysis: Visualizing the connections between users, devices, and data to see where a single compromised credential could lead.
Automated Simulation & Targeted Testing
Rather than a manual, one-off test, we deploy continuous Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) to stress-test your environment:
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Scenario-Based Testing: Running simulated ransomware, data exfiltration, and lateral movement attacks in a safe, controlled manner.
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Detection Validation: Checking if your existing security tools (EDR, SIEM, SOC) actually fire alerts when they should.
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High-Risk Focus: Deep-diving into the areas identified in the baseline—such as Active Directory or SaaS access—where the potential for damage is highest.
Reporting & Remediation Tracking
We move beyond generic “severity scores” to provide intelligence-led prioritisation:
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Exploitability vs. Severity: We rank findings based on how easy they are to exploit in your specific environment, not just their theoretical CVSS score.
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Kill Chain Disruption: We identify the “choke points” where a single fix can break multiple potential attack paths.
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Remediation Guidance: Providing clear, technical instructions for IT teams to close gaps quickly, with trackable progress for stakeholders.
Ongoing Assurance
In a modern estate, security is not a “state” you reach, but a habit you maintain. This final layer ensures:
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Drift Detection: Alerting you the moment a new configuration or user permission deviates from your secure baseline.
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Environmental Revalidation: Automatically re-testing your environment whenever a major change occurs—such as onboarding a new SaaS platform or merging network segments.
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Audit Readiness: Maintaining a continuous log of security validation evidence to prove compliance with DORA, NIS2, and other frameworks.
The Golden Era of Zero Trust Segmentation
Unlike prevention and detection technologies, Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) contains the spread of breaches and ransomware across the hybrid attack surface by continually visualizing how workloads and devices are communicating, creating granular policies that only allow wanted and necessary communication, and automatically isolating breaches by restricting lateral movement proactively or during an active attack. ZTS is a foundational and strategic pillar of any Zero Trust architecture.
