Traditional Penetration Testing
Penetration testing services that deliver more than a branded scanner report.
Network penetration testing yields the best results when pentesters think clearly, test deeply, and explain what they find in words that matter to you.
BHIS penetration testers know that the value is not in the screenshot but in the interpretation. We bring unmatched security expertise to every vulnerability assessment, so you’ll receive ethical hacking services backed by human data analysis and interpretations that you can understand and act on in real time.
The Problem
Network penetration testing generates a ton of vulnerability scanner output. Cyber attackers and threat actors know what all that data means and what to do with it. So do we.
Annual penetration testing services typically follow a pattern: Run a scanner. Dump the findings. Add a severity score. Ship the report.
Between the time you receive, read, interpret, and report your own findings to the right people, your organization could already be cooked. Your company needs prevention strategies. Your pentest needs to serve your immediate needs, which go beyond a data printout and list of vulnerabilities.
Your security team requires a clear understanding of how your organization is at risk and what to do about it.
Your executives need an accurate synthesis and actionable interpretations.
- Which pentest findings are exploitable?
- Which network security weaknesses pose the most immediate cyber risk?
- Which vulnerabilities can be chained together by threat actors?
If you’re wondering how to read a penetration test or you want to learn about the benefits of pentesting, keep reading here or check out some stats from our 2025 pentest findings.
The BHIS Approach
We pentest like hackers (because we are ethical hackers), and we report like cybersecurity educators.
BHIS offensive operators build our penetration tests around real threat attacker methodology and known ATP attack paths.
Vulnerability scans are only the first step in pentesting. BHIS red teamers manually confirm our findings before exploring how those vulnerabilities connect to your unique cybersecurity environment.
That means:
- Verifying which security weaknesses and system exposures can truly be exploited
- Identifying likely attack paths that cyber attackers like to compromise
- Explaining our security testing steps and vulnerability findings—reporting and communicating as we go—so that your cybersecurity team can replicate our red team processes
- Prioritizing what matters most to your organization and offering breach prevention strategies in both boots-on-the-ground and board-level cybersecurity reporting
Your team gets smarter. Your organization gets safer.
What We Actually Do
The secret ingredients are mastery, experience, intuition, understanding, and communication.
First, we use our mastery of tools to generate the findings. Then we use our experience and expertise to understand the risk in an intuitive way. We communicate our understandings with you through a series of meetings, from the ROE call to the mid-engagement dailies to the hyper personalized pentest report deliverable.
Discover
We map your environment using the same techniques attackers use. External recon, service discovery, cloud and identity exposure.
Validate
We manually verify vulnerabilities. No blind trust in scanner output.
Exploit
Where appropriate, we demonstrate real impact. Not just theoretical risk.
Chain
We identify how issues connect. Because attackers don’t exploit one thing at a time.
Explain
We deliver clear, practical reporting that shows what matters and why.
Built By Practitioners
BHIS was built by practitioners who believe security knowledge should be shared
For more than fifteen years, John Strand and the BHIS team have taught, tested, researched, and collaborated with the broader security community. Along the way, we’ve helped train tens of thousands of professionals and contributed to the techniques, tools, and conversations that shape modern penetration testing.
We’re drawing on decades of collective experience gained from doing the work and teaching others how to do it.
We’ve grown organically into a culture of seasoned security professionals who enjoy the freedom to build and release tools used by offensive operators and defensive practioners across the industry. We teach thousands of infosecurity students through webcasts and training. We broadcast infosec discussions on how we think, and we openly share how we break things and how we pentest. Cultivating likeminded cybersecurity community is kind of our thing.
Help yourself to any of the following:
- Open-source tools for cloud breaches, identity theft, and network security attacks
- Public research on real-world cyber attack techniques
- Security training used by red teamers and defenders alike
- Ways to prepare for your first pentest
Our foundation is personal and human, and we are committed to the highest standards of security, confidentiality, and professionalism throughout our pentesting process. We carefully research and choose—and even build—the tools we use for vulnerability scans, network infrastructure investigations, social engineering engagements, and pentest reporting.
Even when leveraging select AI tools to improve our human bandwidth and maximize each tester’s unique capacities, we vet and master the most cutting edge technologies, putting them to work in a way that serves your organization. BHIS penetration testers rely on creativity, curiosity, persistence, and the ability to think like an cyber attacker, and every tool they select is used to extend those qualities and bolster pentesting outcomes.
You’re getting a team that actively tests, researches, teaches, builds tools, and continuously sharpens how offensive security is done.
Real-World Expertise
Modern environments require modern pentesting.
ATPS and threat actors move through cloud services, identity systems, and exposed network infrastructure.
Our testing reflects that reality:
- Microsoft 365 and cloud identity attacks
- Password spraying and credential abuse
- Email and data exposure
- Internal network pivoting
- Wireless and edge cases
BHIS ethical hackers test the way threat actors operate today.
Here is what we know about why companies have gotten hacked recently.
Reporting That Matters
The penetration test report matters because thinking matters.
A good pentest report should go beyond listing problems. It should provide detailed breach prevention strategies rooted in vulnerability findings analysis and interpretation.
We focus on:
- Clear explanations of cybersecurity risk
- Realistic hacker attack scenarios
- Prioritized cyber exposure and network vulnerability remediation guidance
- Findings you can act on immediately
BHIS pentesters report in a way that is understandable and actionable.
Know what matters. Fix what matters.
A penetration test should give you clarity, not confusion.
BHIS delivers tested, validated, real-world results so you can focus on what actually puts your organization at risk.