Penetration Testing Services Toronto
Penetration testing for Toronto businesses. Find exploitable gaps in networks, web apps, and cloud before an attacker does. Call (416) 623-9677.
A penetration test is a scheduled attempt to break in, with your written permission, so you learn the path before someone else does. It is not a vulnerability scan that emails you a spreadsheet of version numbers. Group 4 Networks scopes the test from 18 King Street East, agrees the targets and the hours, and stops if a system starts to fail. The office has done this kind of work with Toronto and GTA firms since 2008.
The usual scope for a small or mid size firm is the external network, the website or web app customers use, and the Microsoft 365 tenant. Internal testing, from a laptop on your office network, is a second decision. We do not wander into a plant floor or a clinic network we were not asked to touch. Production hours are avoided unless you have a reason to see what happens during the day, and even then we pick a window with the person who owns the system.
What you get at the end is a short report, not a novel. Each finding says what we did, what it reached, and what we would change first. Proof is a screenshot or a log line, not a claim that the whole company is unsafe. The order is the useful part: the mailbox that can be taken over, the admin account with no second factor, the web form that trusts whatever you send it. Cosmetic items go to the bottom.
A test is a point in time. If you change the firewall the next week, the result ages. We say that in the readout. Firms use the report for a cyber insurance renewal, a customer questionnaire, or a board that asked whether anyone has actually tried. We will not tell you the test makes you compliant with PIPEDA or PHIPA. Those are ongoing duties. The test shows whether a specific door was open on the days we looked.
How is this different from the monitoring and endpoint work? Monitoring watches for something that is happening. A penetration test tries a door on purpose and then writes down that it opened. You can buy one without the other. Many firms do the test once, fix the top items, and then keep endpoint detection and mail filtering running so the next attempt is not the first time anyone is looking. An active incident still uses the 15 minute P1 response target, which means we start within that window, including after hours. The test itself is booked work.
What we need from you is an owner who can approve the scope, a contact who can stop us if a user reports something odd, and a list of systems that must not be touched. What you do not need is to explain TCP to us. Call (416) 623-9677 and we will say which of your systems we would put in the first scope and which we would leave out. We will not quote a count of vulnerabilities before we have looked.
If the test finds something that is already being used, we treat that as an incident and tell you the same day. We do not save it for the closing meeting so the report looks orderly. You can hire us to fix the list or hand the list to someone else. The findings stay yours.