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Pentest The Introduction

Pentest Limited is one of the foremost providers of IT security and penetration testing services in the UK and has a worldwide reputation for excellence.

Each Pentest consultant has a deep and specialised knowledge in their respective fields, allowing Pentest to match your requirements as, when and where necessary. Pentest's specialist fields include database security, application testing and security, network security and wireless security.

Pentest is able to stay at the cutting edge of the security field by allowing our consultants to perform research and publish papers on a wide variety of topics, many of which you can find in the White Papers section. Research conducted by Pentest is subject to peer review in open forums. Benefits from our research are immediately passed on to our customers, these range from early warnings of potential problems through to a very high quality of reporting.

For further information about our products or services, please do not hesitate to contact us.


Latest News

August 3rd - Unfortunately the Board have to announce that Ian Cook is leaving Pentest as a full-time employee to further pursue his career with Barclays. As an internationally recognised analyst in the field of information technology security and intelligence, he will be missed. However, Pentest have been fortunate enough to retain his input as Ian has agreed to continue as a technical advisor. The Board would like to thank him for his contribution to the company.

March 15th - The slides from Tim Hurman's EuSecWest talk are now online. ARMed combat covers a brief outline of creating exploits for ARM and problems surrounding patches and firmware updates. Please see the whitepapers section for more details.

February 9th - Pentest are pleased to announce the availability of a Microsoft Windows version of the popular BTScanner software. Please see the downloads section for more details.

September 28th - Exploring Windows CE Shellcode - An article showing the potential for vulnerabilities to affect handheld devices. The article adapts existing techniques to Windows CE on the ARM architecture. Demonstration code with a benign payload is provided.

September 22nd - Disclosure of risk is an ethical dilemma - A short article on ethical disclosure written by Pentest is published in the Financial Times.

September 12th - Btscanner 2.0 - An entirely revamped version of the original boasting many new features is available.