Services
ELX Security Consulting helps organizations understand where they are exposed, how an attacker could take advantage of that exposure, and what needs to change to reduce risk.
Our services are organized into two clear tracks: penetration testing for attacker-perspective validation, and software assurance testing for code, build, dependency, and runtime security. Vulnerability Research and Exploitability Validation supports both tracks where deeper proof is required.
Penetration Testing
Penetration testing helps you see your environment the way an attacker would. ELX validates whether weaknesses can be discovered, exploited, chained, and used to create meaningful business or mission impact.
Identify exploitable weaknesses across internal and external infrastructure, including exposed services, insecure configurations, credential risk, privilege escalation, lateral movement, Active Directory exposure, and post-exploitation impact.
Uncover application weaknesses that threaten user accounts, sensitive data, workflows, and business logic, including authentication, authorization, input handling, session management, file handling, and client-side trust assumptions.
Validate whether APIs enforce authorization, schema controls, token handling, rate limits, object ownership, and backend trust boundaries across REST, GraphQL, SOAP, JSON, and XML interfaces.
Evaluate wireless exposure, encryption strength, enterprise authentication, rogue AP and evil twin risk, client isolation, segmentation, captive portals, and credential capture exposure.
Assess cloud-hosted attack paths involving exposed services, identity and access controls, storage permissions, network boundaries, secrets exposure, deployment configuration, and provider-approved testing constraints.
Model realistic attacker paths from inside or outside the environment to validate detection gaps, privilege paths, sensitive data exposure, and risk to business or mission-critical systems.
Software Assurance Testing
Software assurance helps engineering and security teams understand whether software is designed, implemented, built, and maintained securely. ELX connects code behavior, architecture, dependencies, memory safety, input handling, runtime behavior, and patch effectiveness to practical remediation decisions.
Review architecture, entry points, trust boundaries, source-to-sink paths, authentication, authorization, input validation, unsafe APIs, cryptography, logging, secrets, and resource management.
Analyze source code, bytecode, binaries, configuration, dependencies, infrastructure-as-code, and build settings to surface risky patterns that need expert review and validation.
Exercise running applications with live testing, instrumentation, debugging, traffic inspection, tracing, and exploitability analysis to confirm reachability and impact.
Stress parsers, protocols, APIs, file formats, and handlers with malformed and unexpected inputs to uncover crashes, memory-safety issues, input-handling defects, and unstable execution paths.
Develop targeted harnesses that isolate critical functions, reproduce defects, triage crashes, drive controlled inputs, and validate fixes under instrumented conditions.
Reduce third-party and build-chain risk by reviewing vulnerable packages, transitive dependencies, abandoned libraries, secrets exposure, CI/CD workflows, and supply-chain controls.
Assess compiler hardening, debug exposure, deployment settings, container configuration, cloud/IaC definitions, runtime permissions, and insecure defaults.
Re-run original test cases, crash reproducers, fuzz harnesses, and dynamic validation steps to confirm the fix works and does not introduce new risk.
Deliver executive summaries, technical findings, CWE/CVE/CVSS mapping, business impact, remediation plans, retest evidence, and final risk disposition.
Cross-Cutting Capability
This is not a standalone test category. It is the deeper validation discipline ELX applies across penetration testing and software assurance when clients need to know whether a weakness is reachable, exploitable, business-relevant, and tied to a correctable root cause.