EXPLOITSTATION LABS — INDEPENDENT OFFENSIVE SECURITY RESEARCH
Every engagement is staffed by engineers who have shipped public exploit research on Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux kernel. Adversary emulation, not compliance theatre. Measured by the artifacts we hand back, not the hours we bill.
Engagements run under NDA from intake to delivery. Initial scoping call within 5 business days.
METHODOLOGY — FILE REF RT-M.0
A red team operation is not a checklist. Each phase has a defined exit criterion, a written artifact, and a named coordinator on both sides. We treat the engagement like a research paper: scoped, peer-reviewed, reproducible.
Two-week pre-engagement. We map the attack surface you actually care about — production cloud, identity plane, build pipeline, OT segments, third-party integrations — and agree on rules of engagement, deconfliction contacts, and an explicit out-of-scope list. Deliverable: a signed scoping document and threat model your AppSec team can circulate internally.
Operators work from adversary playbooks drawn from our own incident-response corpus and MITRE ATT&CK — not a generic vulnerability scan. We emulate named threat actors where the intel justifies it, and novel tradecraft where it doesn't. Every finding is reproduced, not just observed.
Real-time Slack channel and 24/7 disclosure hotline for critical findings. We do not wait until the final report to tell you a domain admin is compromised — that conversation happens the same business day, with a documented PoC and a recommended containment step your IR team can act on.
Engineering-grade write-ups: full reproduction steps, detection signatures (Sigma, YARA, Snort), remediation guidance with code-level diffs where useful, and an executive threat narrative your CISO can read in seven minutes. A 30-day remediation window with async review is standard.
DELIVERABLES — WHAT YOU RECEIVE
Three written outputs at the close of every engagement. The same write-up quality as our public CVE advisories — because the same engineers write both.
A 6–10 page narrative read by your CISO and board. Translates the technical findings into business risk — what an attacker could actually do, what data is exposed, what the blast radius looks like, and what it costs to remediate. No jargon without translation.
One dossier per exploited chain — the same format we use for our CVE advisories on Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux kernel. Engineers read these, not just security teams.
A tracked remediation tracker with ownership columns, severity, and SLA targets. We stay engaged through patch and re-test — median 11 days from finding to fix across our last 24 months of retained work.
POSTURE — 24-MONTH OPERATIONAL TELEMETRY
Telemetry from the last 24 months of red team and pentest work. This is the data procurement teams ask for after the first call.
Vulnerability-to-patch turnaround
11days
ExploitStation median across retained clients, 2024.
Industry median
74days
Gartner 2024 benchmark for enterprise patch cadence.
ENGAGEMENT TYPES
Pick by intensity and time horizon, not by marketing category. Most clients start with a targeted pentest and graduate to a multi-quarter red team.
RETAINER · 6–18 MONTHS
Continuous adversary emulation against a defined crown-jewel target set. Quarterly objectives, weekly operator reporting, real-time critical-finding escalation. The default for security leaders who want a sustained adversary in the environment, not a point-in-time test.
FIXED SCOPE · 3–6 WEEKS
Time-boxed assessment of a defined scope — a new product, a recent acquisition, a pre-launch service. Designed to find what automated scanners miss before an attacker does.
FIXED SCOPE · 4–8 WEEKS
We start inside the perimeter — assume a workstation is compromised — and measure how far an adversary gets. Tests detection, response, and lateral movement controls against a defined set of objectives.
COLLABORATIVE · 4–12 WEEKS
Joint exercise with your SOC and detection engineers. We run the attack; your team runs the detection; we tune signatures and runbooks in real time. Best fit when detection coverage is the actual gap.
RESEARCH · ANNUAL
Embedded research capacity for product teams shipping security-sensitive code — browsers, kernels, hypervisors, identity systems. Engineers who write our public CVE advisories sit alongside your team to find and disclose vulnerabilities before release.
PROCUREMENT & LEGAL
Addressed here so a security leader can route the page internally without a discovery call just to validate vendor hygiene.
Mutual NDA executed before any scoping call. Scoping documents, threat models, and findings stay under NDA from intake to delivery. Standard NDA turnaround: 48 hours.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, and CREST-accredited penetration testing across US, UK, and Singapore operations. Audit reports available under NDA on request.
Professional liability and cyber-liability coverage sized for Fortune 500 engagements. Certificates of insurance available with the MSA.
Operations in Austin (HQ), Tel Aviv, Singapore, and Berlin (Wilmersdorf). Export compliance reviewed per engagement; jurisdiction and data-residency requirements honored at scoping.
180+ engineering teams engaged under NDA, including two FAANG cloud providers, three sovereign defense agencies, and twelve Fortune 500 financial institutions. Median tenure on retained engagements: 2.7 years; 2024 gross retention 94%.
Direct line for procurement: [email protected] · +1 (512) 555-0117
