Offensive security and assurance
Ion Aegis runs controlled attacks against your applications, cloud and identity systems, then hands your team the exact route an intruder would take and the shortest path to closing it.
01Who we are
Cyber threats are evolving every day. Attackers automate reconnaissance, buy network access from brokers, and move from a single exposed credential to full administrative control in a matter of hours. The gap that decides the outcome is no longer the gap between having security tools and not having them. It is the gap between assuming your controls work and knowing that they do.
Ion Aegis exists to close that gap. We test defenses the way a motivated adversary would test them: against real systems, under agreed rules of engagement, using the same techniques, tooling and patience that genuine intrusions rely on. Every engagement produces something your team can act on the same week, not a pile of scanner output that nobody owns.
That means finding the path through, not just the flaw. A missing patch matters when it leads somewhere. A permissive storage policy matters when it holds the credentials for the next system. We chain findings the way an attacker chains them and show you the full route from first foothold to worst realistic outcome, so your team can argue about priority using facts instead of severity labels.
It also means reporting written for the people who have to act on it. Engineers get reproduction steps, full request and response detail, and a fix that survives code review. Leadership gets a plain account of what an attacker could reach, what that would cost, and what changes once the work is done. Assessors get evidence mapped to the control they asked about.
And it means staying after the report is delivered. Findings are retested once they are fixed. Questions are answered by the person who ran the test rather than a support queue. Security is not a certificate collected once a year. It is a position you hold and keep checking, and Ion Aegis is built to hold it alongside your team.
02What we do
Each engagement is scoped around a question your team is already asking, and ends with the evidence needed to answer it.
Manual, objective-driven testing of your web applications, internal networks and external perimeter. We work from a defined goal rather than a checklist, chaining low-severity findings into the routes that actually reach your data. Every issue arrives with reproduction steps precise enough for an engineer to confirm it on the first attempt.
A controlled rehearsal of the intrusion that happens before encryption: initial access, credential theft, lateral movement and staging for exfiltration. Nothing is encrypted and no data leaves your environment. What you learn is where the chain would have broken, and how long your team took to notice.
Configuration and identity review across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, focused on the permissions and trust relationships that turn one compromised workload into account-wide access. We map effective privilege rather than declared policy. Each finding arrives with the specific policy change that closes it.
Technical validation of the controls behind SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and HIPAA programmes, using industry-standard methodologies. We test whether each control holds in practice and produce evidence an assessor can accept without a second round of questions. Where a control fails, you learn before the audit rather than during it.
03AI-powered security enhancements
Ion Aegis uses AI to compress the slow parts of an engagement rather than to replace the judgement in it. Models correlate findings across thousands of hosts, cluster duplicates, draft detection logic from behaviour we actually executed, and surface anomalies in log volumes no analyst could read end to end.
Every conclusion still passes a human tester before it reaches your report. Nothing is reported that a person has not reproduced.
The model narrows the search. The operator decides what is true.
Estate-wide signal, narrowed to reviewable findings
Models cluster duplicate findings, group hosts that share a root cause, and connect results across thousands of assets so testers spend their hours on the paths that lead somewhere.
Every technique we execute is captured and turned into candidate detection rules for your platform, then tuned by hand against your own telemetry before you receive it.
Log volumes no person can read end to end are narrowed to a reviewable set of candidates. The model narrows the search. The operator decides what is true.
Start an engagement
Tell us which systems are in scope and the question you need answered. You will get a scoping call with the people who would run the work, and a written proposal with dates, scope and cost inside two business days.
No testing begins without written authorisation from you
04Common questions
If yours is not here, ask it directly. You will get an answer from someone who runs engagements, not from a sales script.
Ask your questionMost engagements run between two and six weeks from kickoff to final report. A focused application test finishes inside two weeks. A ransomware simulation or a multi-framework compliance programme takes longer, because the staging and the checkpoints between stages are the point. A scoping call is normally enough to give you a firm window, and we hold the window once it is agreed.
Disruption is a scoping decision rather than an accident. Before any activity begins we agree testing windows, rate limits, excluded systems and a documented stop condition, and you get a named contact who can halt the engagement within minutes. Techniques with a realistic chance of causing an outage are demonstrated in a staging environment, or documented as reachable, rather than executed against production.
A technical report with reproduction steps and evidence, an attack path narrative showing how the individual findings connect, a remediation plan ranked by risk and effort, and an executive summary written for someone who will never open the technical section. Every engagement also includes a live walkthrough with the testers who did the work, because the questions your engineers ask in that hour are usually worth more than the document.
Yes, and it is included rather than sold back to you. Once your team marks an issue as remediated we verify the fix, confirm it cannot be bypassed by a small variation of the original technique, and reissue the report with the finding closed and dated so you keep a clean audit trail.
A penetration test asks whether a route into your systems exists. A ransomware simulation assumes one does and measures what happens next: how far an operator gets, how quickly your team notices, and whether your backups would still be there afterwards. They answer different questions. Organisations that have done neither usually get more value from the penetration test first.
A defined scope, a signed authorisation to test, and one technical contact who can answer questions while the engagement runs. Depending on the service we may also need read-only cloud credentials, test accounts at each privilege level, or a network position for internal testing. Nothing else is required up front, and we will say plainly if the scope you have asked for will not answer the question you are actually asking.