Services

Five things, done properly.

We would rather do a short list well than list everything and subcontract the parts we do not do. If you need something that is not here, say so and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people.

Penetration Testing

A penetration test finds and proves the exploitable weaknesses in an application or network before an attacker does. APT tests web, mobile, network and cloud targets, and every finding is reproduced and confirmed by a practitioner before it goes in your report.

Red Team Assessment

Red & Purple Team

A red team engagement tests whether your detection and response actually work by emulating a real adversary against a defined objective. A purple team exercise does the same work with your defenders in the room, tuning detection as it happens.

Security Advisory

Fractional CISO / CIO

A fractional CISO gives you security program leadership without a full-time executive hire. APT reviews your network and your program together, maps every obligation you actually answer to, and closes the gaps in priority order rather than handing you a template.

Compliance Advisory

CMMC Readiness

CMMC Phase 2 was suspended in July 2026, but DFARS 252.204-7012 and 252.204-7021 remain in force. You still owe a NIST SP 800-171 self-assessment, a System Security Plan, a POA&M, an SPRS score and an annual affirmation. APT does that work.

Managed Security Service

Managed Security

Managed security means someone else runs the tools that defend you. APT is vendor-neutral, so we recommend what fits rather than what we are quota-bound to sell, and we can be the reseller, the managed partner, or neither if you would rather own it.

How these fit together

Most people need them in a particular order.

Testing before adversary work

A penetration test asks whether a weakness exists. Red team work asks whether you would notice someone using it. The second question is only worth paying for once the first has stopped returning surprises, which is why we turn down red team engagements for organizations that have never been tested.

Compliance is a deadline, not a goal

CMMC readiness gets you through an assessment. Managed security is what produces the evidence next year without anyone reconstructing it from memory. The first is a project and the second is a habit, and a programme that only ever does the project repeats it forever.

Someone has to own the decisions

Fractional CISO work is the one people buy last and wish they had bought first. Testing tells you what is wrong. Somebody still has to decide what gets fixed, in what order, with what budget, and defend that to a board or an underwriter.

Where the industry changes the answer

The same test means different things depending on who is asking. For defense contractors the driver is DFARS flow-down and an SPRS score. For SaaS companies it is usually a customer security review holding up a contract.

Still not sure? The frequently asked questions cover scoping, timelines and what we will not do, and how we work explains the part that is different.

If you run into this work and do not do it yourself, we pay for referrals. See the partner program.

Not sure which of these you need?

That is a normal place to start. Tell us what triggered the search and we will point you at the right one, including if it is nothing.

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