External Network Penetration Testing
Comprehensive External Network Pentesting
Organizations face opportunistic and targeted attacks against their external facing assets, network systems, web applications, and cloud environments. It’s an always expanding attack surface. NetSPI’s approach to external network penetration testing enumerates your exposures, identifies critical vulnerabilities, and exploits them using the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by real-world threat actors.
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Reduce Risk & Improve Network Security
- Define potential entry points into your external network systems
- Uncover attack surfaces exposed by cloud services
- Visibility of confidential data exposure on public resources
- Discover patch, configuration, permission, and code issues
- Actionable guidance to remediate verified vulnerabilities
- Remove false positives with verification by human experts
What do NetSPI External Network Assessments test for?
Scanning internet-facing resources is a high priority, but a complete assessment of the hardness of your external network requires more. NetSPI’s expert network security testing probes external networks to identify vulnerabilities in protected systems across your cloud, network, application, and embedded systems.
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Cross-site scripting (XSS)
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Broken authentication & access control
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Sensitive data exposure
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Insecure deserialization
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XML external entities (XXE)
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Insufficient logging and monitoring
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Components with known vulnerabilities
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Security misconfiguration
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Injection
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Continuous External Pentesting Service
NetSPI delivers continuous discovery, exposure identification, and testing of an organization’s external attack surface. Our modern pentesting platform, combines expert human insights, AI-driven testing, and 20 years of experience to deliver faster, more accurate results. By integrating ongoing testing, our skilled researchers, and agentic MCP integrations, NetSPI uncovers vulnerabilities as your systems change, addressing risk in real time to keep your security one step ahead.
- Identifies all internet-facing assets that could serve as entry points and keeps visibility current as environments evolve.
- Detects misconfigurations, open services, vulnerabilities, and exposed data across internet-facing systems and web applications.
- Confirms real risk through human validation, removes false positives, and demonstrates how vulnerabilities can be combined.
- Delivers findings through a centralized platform with clear, actionable recommendations for remediation.
Continuous Pentesting Services Powered by NetSPI’s AI-Accelerated Platform
Each deployment brings the potential for new risks, making it harder for teams to maintain a clear view of security without continuous, automated insights. Automation only isn’t enough. AI-only solutions like Mythos overwhelm security teams with thousands of raw vulnerabilities and lack the context and prioritization needed to take action, creating more chaos than clarity.
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Agentic MCP Platform Integrations
- By tapping into validated vulnerability data and engagement context, your agentic systems can utilize our MCP service to automate risk-based decisions and workflows.
- Integrate NetSPI data into broader security and IT workflows, allowing agents to automatically create tickets, enrich alerts, or update systems of record.
- Extend the reach of your security team by enabling your agents to handle repetitive analysis and coordination tasks across large volumes of NetSPI findings.
NetSPI AI Powers Continuous Pentesting
- Unlike generic AI solutions, NetSPI’s AI is specifically designed to address the unique challenges of modern cybersecurity testing.
- AI accelerates data processing, reconnaissance, and pattern recognition. It allows us to continuously map your attack surface with incredible speed, freeing human experts to focus on high-impact strategic analysis.
- Each test expands our knowledge base. Every vulnerability discovered helps refine how we approach the next environment. And every new testing scenario strengthens our AI, making future engagements smarter, faster, and more comprehensive.
NetSPI doesn’t bolt AI onto existing scanners. Its systems are built around how LLMs actually reason, providing unprecedented depth and fidelity. It chains attacks, adapts mid-test, confirms findings and is grounded in decades of real-world pentesting data.
The New NetSPI Platform Experience
- Get answers to critical security questions faster, aligned to role and priorities
- Manage integrations, scans, and agents in one centralized workflow
- Accelerate detection, prioritization, and remediation across the attack surface
- Clearly demonstrate security outcomes to technical and executive stakeholders
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You Deserve The NetSPI Advantage
Human-Led
- 350+ pentesters
- Employed, not outsourced
- Wide domain expertise
AI-Accelerated
- Consistent quality
- Deep visibility
- Transparent results
Modern Pentesting
- Use case driven
- Friction-free
- Built for today’s threats