No surprises, from first call to final report.
Every engagement follows the same disciplined path. You know what is being tested, when, and by whom, and you finish with findings your team can act on.
Scoping & Rules of Engagement
We agree in writing what is in scope, who is authorized, when testing happens, and how we communicate. Nothing is touched before this is settled.
Reconnaissance & Mapping
We map the real attack surface: routes, parameters, API endpoints, authentication flows, roles, and third-party integrations.
Automated & AI-Assisted Analysis
Tooling and AI-assisted review sweep the mapped surface for known issue classes and anomalies, producing leads for hands-on work.
Manual Testing & Exploitation
Testing by hand: authorization boundaries, business logic, chained weaknesses, and everything the tooling flagged but could not confirm.
Reporting
Findings documented with severity, business impact, reproduction steps, evidence, and prioritized remediation guidance.
Debrief & Retest
We walk your team through the results, answer engineering questions, and retest fixes to confirm they hold.
What you can expect
- A written scope and rules of engagement agreed before any testing begins
- Direct communication with the tester doing the work, with urgent findings raised as they are found
- A report written for both engineering teams and decision-makers
- Manual validation of every finding, so you are not triaging scanner noise
Testing That Fits Your Compliance Requirements
Many organizations commission a penetration test because a framework requires one. Carrara Security scopes each engagement around what your auditors and assessors will expect to see, then documents findings and retesting in a form you can hand over as evidence.
- Scoping aligned to frameworks such as PCI DSS, FedRAMP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001
- Reports written for both engineering teams and auditors
- Retesting to verify fixes and close out findings