The work

    01

    External · Cloud · Web app

    Entire subscriber table open on the public internet, closed and re-verified mid-engagement

    A consumer-facing SaaS product that collects personal profile data from the people who sign up for it. Small production estate: a single-page web application on a managed hosting platform, backed by a hosted cloud database and a transactional email service.

    Critical 3High 8Medium 6Low 3Info 4

    24 findings validated

    02

    Internal · Assumed-breach · Network

    One workstation foothold reaches cloud administrator, the hypervisor cluster and live internal data

    The internal corporate network of a mid-sized technology company: an engineer workstation, a physical LAN of roughly two dozen hosts, a virtualization cluster, and a connected cloud tenant.

    Critical 6High 10Medium 10Low 1

    27 findings validated

    03

    External · Cloud · Multi-tenant

    Anonymous self-registration mints a global-administrator token across a shared platform

    An IT services firm that runs its client operations as one tenant on a shared, multi-tenant cloud platform it does not own. The same platform is used by many other firms.

    Critical 1High 4Medium 9Low 2Info 5

    21 findings validated

    04

    External · Web app · Authenticated

    The lowest-privilege account reads the whole internal admin surface

    A business-operations SaaS application serving several business clients from one deployment, with a built-in AI assistant.

    Critical 1High 5Medium 3Low 1

    10 findings validated

    05

    External · Cloud · Identity · Network

    A well-defended core, serious exposures in the estate around it

    A philanthropic organization's internet-facing estate: a public website behind a cloud edge service, a staging environment, a federated single-sign-on identity layer, and perimeter network appliances.

    High 4

    4 findings validated