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X-Force Red Penetration Testing Services

Testing AI models, applications, networks, hardware, and personnel to uncover and fix vulnerabilities

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Identify and fix critical vulnerabilities across your enterprise

X-Force Red delivers penetration testing services for your applications, networks, cloud assets, AI models, mainframes, hardware, personnel and more to uncover vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that could lead to unauthorized access to systems or sensitive data. With decades of experience breaking into organizations using the same tools, techniques, practices, and mindsets as criminals, X-Force Red offers the skills, scale, and scope to help find and fix your most dangerous weaknesses.

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Capabilities AI testing

Uncover and address security vulnerabilities across Foundation Models and Large Language Models (FM/LLMs), MLSecOps Pipelines, AI Platforms, and Generative AI (GenAI) applications.

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Application testing

Test your applications for security weaknesses that could be abused by threat actors. X-Force Red provides manual penetration testing, secure code review, binary analysis and vulnerability assessments of any platform including web, mobile, APIs, and thick-clients.

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Cloud security testing

We perform cloud penetration testing to find critical misconfigurations that can lead to privilege escalation or unauthorized access to sensitive data. X-Force Red hackers can uncover potential attack paths and insecure DevOps practices such as shared secrets (credentials, API/SSH keys) or object storage exposed inadvertently.

External network testing and social engineering

X-Force Red performs pen testing against Internet exposed systems, services, and infrastructure with the goal of evaluating an organization's security posture from the perspective of an external threat actor. Testing can target key areas such as cloud assets, remote access services, and email security, as well as be used to satisfy compliance frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR. X-Force Red can also test your human attack surface, with phishing, vishing and physical social engineering exercises.

Hardware testing

IBM X-Force Red specializes in comprehensive hardware security testing, offering services that delve deep into the physical components and firmware of electronic devices. Our hacker driven approach involves rigorous hardware analysis for potential vulnerabilities, including side-channel attacks, fault injection, and reverse engineering.

Internal network infrastructure testing

Find weaknesses and attack paths undiscovered by vulnerability scanners. Our attacker driven methodologies look for the same attack paths used by attackers to compromise systems. Starting from an internal assume breach perspective, our hackers will look to gain an initial foothold on the network, escalate privileges and attempt to gain access to sensitive data.

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