Most penetration test reports get read once and filed. Ours are scoped around what would actually hurt your business, ranked so your IT team knows what to fix first, and followed by a retest to prove the fixes worked. Testing is delivered by certified testers; the governance wrapper around it is ours.
A vulnerability assessment maps the security weaknesses across your systems. A penetration test goes further and safely proves which of those weaknesses an attacker could actually exploit, and what they would reach if they did. The two are usually sold together as VAPT because a list of theoretical vulnerabilities without validation tells you very little about real risk.
Scope is agreed in writing before anything starts: which systems, which IP ranges and applications, what is explicitly out of bounds, the testing window, and who to call if something breaks. Common scopes are external infrastructure, your public web applications and customer portals, the internal network, Microsoft 365 and cloud configuration, and wireless.
Orbix scopes the engagement, manages delivery, and translates the output into something your management can act on. The hands-on testing is carried out by certified testers working to a recognised methodology, either in our delivery team or through vetted testing partners depending on the specialism required. We tell you which before you sign, because you are entitled to know who is on your network.
Attackers scan the whole Malaysian internet continuously and indiscriminately. They are not choosing you; they are finding whatever is exposed and unpatched. An old plugin on a marketing site, a forgotten test server, a management interface reachable from the internet, or a default credential on a network device is enough, and none of those require a targeted campaign to discover.
The commercial pressure is now just as strong as the technical one. Enterprise clients ask for a recent penetration test report during vendor due diligence, cyber insurers ask at renewal, and buyers in regulated sectors increasingly make it a contract condition. Organisations regularly come to us because a customer asked for a test report and they had none.
There is a regulatory angle too. The PDPA as amended requires organisations to take practical steps to protect personal data. If a breach occurs and the entry point was a vulnerability that had been publicly known and patchable for two years, the position in front of the Commissioner is considerably weaker than if testing and remediation were documented and ongoing.
Scope is built around your environment and your budget. Most SMEs start with external infrastructure and their main web application, which is where the exposure usually concentrates.
Everything reachable from the internet: firewalls, VPN gateways, mail servers, remote access, and the forgotten hosts nobody has an owner for. This is the attack surface that gets scanned automatically every day, so it is where most engagements begin.
Your customer portal, booking system, e-commerce checkout or internal web app, tested against the OWASP Top 10 and beyond: authentication and session handling, access control between accounts, injection, file upload handling and business logic flaws that automated scanners cannot find.
What an attacker could reach after getting a foothold, whether through a phished credential or a compromised laptop. Lateral movement, privilege escalation, weak internal segmentation and over-permissive shares. This is the test that shows whether one compromised workstation becomes one compromised company.
Misconfiguration is now a more common route in than software vulnerabilities. Covers identity, conditional access, privileged roles, storage exposure and tenant settings. See our dedicated Microsoft 365 security assessment if that is the primary concern.
Every finding carries a technical severity and a business impact rating, because a critical CVSS score on an isolated test box matters less than a medium on the system holding your customer database. The report leads with the handful of issues that actually change your risk position.
We walk your IT team or MSP through each finding, answer questions during remediation, then retest the fixed items and issue an updated report. A test without a retest tells you what was wrong, not whether it is right now.
The deliverable is not a vulnerability list. It is a prioritised, costed piece of work your IT team can execute and your board can see closed.
Almost every first engagement surfaces something the organisation did not know was reachable from the internet: a legacy server, a test environment with production data, or a service someone stood up years ago and forgot.
Raw scanner output runs to hundreds of rows and gets ignored. A validated, business-ranked report with a fix path for each item is something a two-person IT team can actually work through.
A current test report and evidence of remediation closes out the question that stalls enterprise deals and insurance renewals. For many clients this alone pays for the engagement.
Testing consistently shows risk is concentrated in a few systems. Knowing which lets you focus limited maintenance windows where they reduce real exposure.
Documented testing, ranked findings and evidence of remediation demonstrate practical steps to protect personal data, which is exactly what is examined after an incident.
Remediation often stalls halfway. A scheduled retest creates a deadline and produces the evidence that the work was completed rather than merely assigned.
Four to six weeks from scoping to the retest report, with the testing window itself usually one to two weeks depending on scope.
We agree exactly what is in scope, what is out, the testing window, the intensity, and the escalation contact if something goes wrong at two in the morning. You sign a written authorisation, and where systems are hosted by a third party we help you obtain their permission too, which is a step organisations frequently miss.
Mapping the real attack surface, which is routinely larger than the asset list you supply. Subdomains, exposed services, forgotten hosts and shadow IT surface here, and the discovery output is a useful deliverable in itself.
Broad coverage across the scope to catch known vulnerabilities, missing patches and weak configuration. This is the fast, cheap layer. It produces false positives, which is precisely why the next stage exists.
Certified testers verify what the scanners found, discard false positives, and probe for what tooling cannot see: broken access control between accounts, business logic flaws, chained weaknesses that are individually minor and jointly serious. Anything critical is reported to you immediately rather than held for the report.
Two documents. A technical report with reproduction steps and fix guidance for your IT team or MSP, and a short management summary stating the risk position in business terms, without a CVSS score in sight.
We support your team through remediation, then retest the fixed items and issue an updated report suitable for showing a client or an insurer. Most organisations then move to an annual cycle, or test again after any significant system change.
Reports are written to be handed onward, to your MSP, your auditor, your insurer or your enterprise client, without further translation.
Every validated finding with evidence, reproduction steps, technical and business severity, and specific remediation guidance.
Two pages for leadership: the risk position, what could realistically happen, and the handful of actions that would change it most.
The internet-facing assets discovered during reconnaissance, including anything not on your asset register.
Findings sequenced by risk reduction per unit of effort, so a small IT team knows exactly what to do first.
An updated report after remediation confirming which findings are closed, suitable for sharing with clients and insurers.
A summary letter confirming testing was carried out, its scope and its date, for vendor due diligence questionnaires where the full report is too sensitive to share.
Any organisation with an internet presence holding data worth stealing. The trigger is usually a client questionnaire, an insurance renewal, a compliance requirement or a near miss.
Sectors with customer-facing systems or regulatory obligations get the strongest case, but the exposure is broadly universal.
Scope scales with environment size rather than headcount, so a small company with one critical application can be tested affordably.
The engagement is run with IT, but the findings belong to management, because most of the decisions are about budget and priority.
Plenty of firms will run a scan and send you the export. The value is in what happens between the raw findings and a closed remediation plan.
We run VAPT as a governance engagement with a technical core. Findings land on your risk register with owners, target dates and a retest deadline, and the management summary is written for the audience that has to release the budget. That is a different deliverable from a scanner report with a logo on it.
Every finding carries a fix path sized to your resources, and we rank by risk reduction per unit of effort so a two-person IT team knows exactly where to start. Where the honest answer is that a finding is not worth fixing, we say so and record the accepted risk rather than padding the report.
Our consultants have run compliance, data protection and security functions inside Malaysian organisations, not only advised on them from outside. That shows up in the advice: we know what a lean IT team can absorb in a quarter, and we know which recommendations get quietly shelved.
Scenarios use Malaysian references your staff will recognise, from DuitNow payment requests and e-invoice notices to LHDN and EPF correspondence. Reporting is framed against the obligations your regulators and auditors actually cite, including the 72-hour personal data breach notification duty introduced by the 2024 amendments to the PDPA.
Where testing reveals that the underlying issue is behavioural rather than technical, for example credentials shared across a team, the follow-up training can be delivered as an HRD Corp claimable programme for levy-contributing employers. See HRD Corp claimable cybersecurity training.
Tell us your headcount, your industry and what triggered the interest, whether that is an audit finding, a near miss, a board question or a regulator letter. We will come back with scope, timeline and a fixed quotation. No obligation, and we will say so if you do not need us yet.
