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Offensive Security

That's what we do.

Trafford Security has been running offensive security engagements since 2006. Penetration testing, red team operations, purple team exercises, vulnerability assessments, web application and API testing, LLM security assessments. We work nationally across federal agencies, health systems, financial institutions, higher education, and enterprise technology.

We find out what an attacker could do in your environment, demonstrate it with evidence, and advise you on how to best address it.

Practitioner-led, every time
Every engagement is run by experienced practitioners who tailor their approach to the specifics of your environment. Manual, evidence-based, and built to drive real decisions.
Impact, not just exposure
We demonstrate what is exploitable and what the real-world consequence would be. Not a CVE list. Not a scanner report. Actual impact.
Compliance-framework fluency
We tailor every engagement to your regulatory environment. PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP drive real pen testing requirements, and we know what that means in practice.
Sector-specific experience
Federal agencies. Major health systems. Financial institutions. Environments where security failures have real consequences. We've been there repeatedly.

What We Do

Offensive security services

Manual, practitioner-led. Select any service to see full scope and methodology.

Automated vulnerability scanners find known weaknesses. Our network penetration tests find what an experienced attacker does with those weaknesses, and the ones the scanner missed entirely.

We conduct manual, scope-defined engagements against your external perimeter, internal network, Active Directory environment, wireless infrastructure, or all of the above. Each phase builds on the last: reconnaissance, enumeration, vulnerability identification, exploitation, and post-exploitation to demonstrate real-world impact.

Methodology
Draws from PTES (Penetration Testing Execution Standard), NIST SP 800-115, and OSSTMM as foundational frameworks, layered with tradecraft refined through 20 years of real-world engagements. Industry standards are a floor. We extend well beyond them based on the specific environment and threat profile.

What's Included

  • External network testing: identify and exploit weaknesses accessible from the internet
  • Internal network testing: simulate an attacker with a foothold inside the perimeter
  • Active Directory assessment: domain compromise paths, privilege escalation, lateral movement
  • Wireless security testing: rogue APs, WPA weaknesses, segmentation gaps
  • Cloud infrastructure review: AWS, GCP, and Azure environments assessed for exposed assets, misconfigured services, and overpermissioned identities
Deliverable Detailed findings report with exploitation evidence, prioritized remediation matrix, executive summary, and post-engagement debrief.

A red team engagement is a full-scope adversary simulation. We operate as a sophisticated threat actor, not bound to a defined vulnerability list, designed to achieve specific objectives the way a real attacker would pursue them.

Red teaming tests your technology, your people, and your processes simultaneously. Does your SOC detect lateral movement? Do your security controls hold when someone with time and intent is actively trying to circumvent them?

Methodology
Planned and executed using the MITRE ATT&CK framework as the primary operational reference. TTPs are selected based on documented adversary behavior in your sector. Every technique is chosen deliberately. Post-engagement reporting maps the full attack path back to ATT&CK tactics and techniques so your team can operationalize the findings.

What's Included

  • Objective-based engagement design aligned to your specific threat model
  • Multi-vector simulation: network, web application, social engineering, physical (if in scope)
  • Custom tooling and tradecraft designed to test real detection capabilities
  • Full attack narrative documenting every step, decision, and outcome
  • Complete ATT&CK mapping of every technique used throughout the engagement
  • Findings debrief with security operations and leadership
Deliverable Full attack narrative report, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, detection and response gap analysis, and a prioritized improvement roadmap.

Purple teaming bridges the gap between offensive findings and your defensive team's ability to act on them. We execute attack scenarios in coordination with your security operations team, with continuous feedback that improves detection and response in the same session.

Your defenders see exactly what each attack looks like in your SIEM, EDR, and network telemetry while we generate it. We adjust technique, tune detection rules, identify blind spots, and walk away with documented improvements rather than a gap list on a shelf.

Methodology
Attack scenarios are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques before execution, giving your team a shared industry-standard reference. The ATT&CK coverage heatmap produced at engagement close shows which techniques your environment detects reliably, which generate noise without triggering alerts, and which are blind spots.

What's Included

  • Pre-engagement review of detection logic, SIEM rules, and EDR coverage
  • Attack scenarios pre-mapped to MITRE ATT&CK before execution begins
  • Coordinated execution with real-time feedback to your SOC
  • Detection rule tuning and blind spot identification during the engagement
  • MITRE ATT&CK coverage heatmap: detect vs. miss vs. noisy, by technique
  • Documentation of improvements made and gaps remaining
Deliverable Attack scenario runbook, detection gap analysis, detection rule documentation, and MITRE ATT&CK coverage heatmap.

Vulnerability assessments provide a structured inventory of security weaknesses across your environment, focused on comprehensive identification and risk classification: what's present, how severe, and how to prioritize remediation.

We combine automated scanning with manual validation to eliminate false positives and add context that scanners can't provide. Every finding is verified before it enters the report. Commonly used to satisfy compliance requirements, support audit cycles, or establish a baseline before more advanced testing.

Methodology
Findings scored using CVSS with business context applied alongside technical severity. Risk prioritization accounts for exploitability, asset criticality, and operational impact. Assessment structure aligns to NIST SP 800-53 and maps to the relevant compliance framework governing your environment.

What's Included

  • Network and host vulnerability scanning with manual validation
  • Web application vulnerability identification
  • Risk classification using CVSS with business context applied
  • False positive review and elimination
  • Remediation guidance with clear prioritization
  • Compliance framework mapping: PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP
Deliverable Validated findings report with risk ratings, remediation guidance, and executive summary.

Web applications and APIs are among the most commonly exploited entry points into an organization. Most have security issues that automated scanners simply don't find: business logic flaws, chained exploits, authorization gaps, and misconfigurations buried in application behavior.

We conduct manual assessments grounded in the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG), benchmarked against the OWASP Top 10 (2025) and OWASP API Security Top 10. Applicable to custom applications, SaaS platforms, REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and mobile backends.

Methodology
Primary reference: OWASP WSTG. Benchmarked against OWASP Top 10 (2025) and OWASP API Security Top 10. These are a floor, not a ceiling. Manual analysis and practitioner judgment surface the chained exploits and logic flaws that checklist-based testing consistently misses.

What's Included

  • Authentication and authorization testing
  • Session management and token security
  • Input validation: SQLi, XSS, XXE, SSRF, command injection, and variants
  • Business logic and access control testing
  • API endpoint enumeration and security assessment
  • OAuth, JWT, and API authentication review
  • Full OWASP Top 10 (2025) and API Security Top 10 coverage
Deliverable Findings with reproduction steps and exploitation evidence, OWASP mapping, severity ratings, and remediation guidance.

As large language models get embedded into products, workflows, and decision-making processes, they introduce a class of vulnerabilities that traditional security testing doesn't address. Prompt injection. Jailbreaking. Data exfiltration through model output. Indirect prompt injection via retrieval-augmented generation systems.

These aren't theoretical. They're being exploited against production systems now, and most organizations building with AI don't have a clear picture of their exposure.

Methodology
Structured around the OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications and OWASP GenAI Security Guidelines, extended where the threat landscape has evolved faster than published guidance. Our approach is actively updated as new attack techniques and model behaviors emerge.

What's Included

  • Direct and indirect prompt injection testing
  • System prompt and configuration extraction attempts
  • Jailbreak and safety bypass testing
  • Sensitive data leakage via model output
  • RAG and retrieval system attack vectors
  • Adversarial input and model behavior manipulation
  • Findings mapped to OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
Deliverable Technical findings report with attack narratives, risk ratings, and remediation guidance specific to LLM-integrated systems.

Where We Work

We know your environments.

Our experience is concentrated in environments with high regulatory complexity, high-value targets, and real consequences when security fails.

Compliance Frameworks
PCI DSS SOC 2 ISO 27001 FedRAMP
Federal / Government
FedRAMP-aligned engagements across civilian agency environments. We understand the constraints of authorized testing in controlled and sensitive environments.
Healthcare
Assessments of clinical and administrative systems, including EMR access paths, PHI exposure risk, and network segmentation across complex healthcare environments.
Financial Services
PCI DSS-scoped testing of payment infrastructure, cardholder data environments, and the systems that touch them.
Higher Education
Complex distributed networks, a mix of enterprise and student-facing systems, and high-value research environments across large campuses.
Technology & SaaS
Web application depth, API security, LLM testing, developer-fluent reporting. Peer-to-peer engagement with technical teams.
Data Centers & Infrastructure
Network segmentation, physical and logical access, high-availability environment testing with availability as a primary constraint.

How We Work

From first call to closed findings.

Every engagement follows the same disciplined path: scoped in writing, tested by hand, and delivered with evidence your team can act on.

  1. 01

    Scope & rules of engagement

    We agree in writing what's in scope, who is authorized, when testing happens, and how we communicate. Nothing is touched until that's settled.

  2. 02

    Reconnaissance & mapping

    We map your real attack surface the way an attacker would: hosts, applications, endpoints, identities, and the paths between them.

  3. 03

    Testing & exploitation

    Tooling sweeps for the known issues. Our testers do the rest by hand: authorization gaps, business logic, chained weaknesses, and how far a foothold really goes.

  4. 04

    Reporting

    Every finding documented with severity, business impact, reproduction steps, and evidence. Technical detail for engineers, an executive summary for leadership.

  5. 05

    Debrief & retest

    We walk your team through the results and agree on priorities, then retest remediated findings to confirm they're closed.

About Trafford Security

20 years of offensive security.

The experience behind Trafford Security goes back to 2006. Offensive security has been our practice since the beginning.

We focus on the work we know how to do at the highest level: finding out how an attacker would get into your environment, how far they'd get, and what they'd do when they got there.

What sets us apart

Offense forward
Offensive security is our practice, our expertise, and our entire professional identity.
Impact-first deliverables
Our reports drive decisions. We show what's exploitable and what the real-world consequence would be, not just what exists on a scan.
Framework fluency
PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP each carry real pen testing requirements. We know what auditors expect and what actually matters for your environment.
Cloud-native ready
Whether you're running on AWS, GCP, or Azure, we assess your configurations, deployments, and identity architecture the same way we'd approach any high-value environment.

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