Security Testing and Assurance
Test your defences before someone else does.
The full testing and assurance cycle
Penetration Testing
Independent, specialist-delivered penetration testing — scoped, managed and quality-assured by Avocado.
Application Security and DevSecOps
Build security into your applications and pipelines so every release ships tested, not hopeful.
Data Security
Discover and assess how your sensitive data is classified, protected and controlled across its lifecycle.
Vulnerability Assessments
Tool-based scanning with Nessus, Qualys and Microsoft Defender, triaged into a prioritised remediation plan.
Technical Assessments
Configuration reviews of Active Directory, cloud, operating system and EAP builds against CIS and Microsoft benchmarks.
Threat Assessment
Understand which threat actors and techniques actually matter to your environment — and test against those.
IoT Risk Assessment
Discover and assess the connected devices your standard tooling can't see.
How each capability works
Penetration Testing
Independence, twice over. Testing is delivered by vetted specialist penetration testing partners, so the people attacking your systems are career testers doing nothing else — and because they are not us, nobody is marking their own homework. Avocado owns everything around the test: threat-led scoping, quality assurance of findings, translation of the report into a remediation plan, and retest to confirm the fix.
- Threat-led scoping — what an attacker would target, what a breach would cost, and therefore what to test, aligned to the OWASP Testing Guide and MITRE ATT&CK.
- Test types matched to the question — external and internal network, web application, API, mobile, wireless and cloud environment testing, and social engineering where agreed.
- Delivery managed end-to-end by Avocado, under your legal and data handling requirements.
- Quality assurance of findings — every reported issue validated, rated for exploitability and business impact, and stripped of false positives.
- Remediation planning with your engineering teams, with fixes sequenced by risk, and retest and closure evidence suitable for customers, auditors and insurers.
Application Security and DevSecOps
Avocado's DNA is delivery automation: we have spent more than two decades building and automating delivery pipelines for regulated Australian enterprises. Our consultants have run the pipelines they are securing. We embed controls into the toolchain your teams already use, so the secure path is also the fast path and security stops being the team that says no.
- Secure SDLC and DevSecOps maturity assessment against OWASP SAMM, with a prioritised uplift roadmap.
- Threat modelling for critical applications, including STRIDE analysis, integrated into design and refinement.
- Security tooling in the pipeline — SAST, DAST, software composition analysis and secrets detection wired into CI/CD with tuned, actionable gates.
- Secure code review of critical components and remediation guidance developers can apply.
- API, container and infrastructure-as-code security controls and hardening; secrets management and software supply chain controls.
- Developer security capability uplift, delivered with our Cyber Security Training service.
Vulnerability, Technical and Data Security Assessments
Anyone can run a scanner. The value is in what happens next. We benchmark configurations against recognised baselines — CIS Benchmarks and Microsoft security baselines — so a finding is a measured deviation from a defensible standard, not a consultant's preference. Then we triage by exploitability and business context and, where it changes the decision, can quantify the exposure in dollars using FAIR. Because we assess once and report many, the same evidence feeds your Essential Eight, ISO 27001 and CIRMP reporting through our Governance, Risk and Compliance service.
- Authenticated and unauthenticated vulnerability scanning across infrastructure, endpoints and web applications using Nessus, Qualys and Microsoft Defender.
- Triage combining CVSS severity, known exploitation and business context, not raw scanner scores, with a prioritised remediation plan and rescan evidence.
- Technical assessments: Active Directory and Entra ID, cloud platform configurations (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), OS builds (Windows, Linux) and EAP/network authentication, each against CIS Benchmarks and Microsoft security baselines.
- Data security assessments: discovery and classification review, protection controls (encryption, key management, DLP, access control), lifecycle controls, and breach readiness supporting the 30-day Notifiable Data Breach obligation.
Threat and IoT Risk Assessment
Generic threat reports tell you what is happening to everyone. Our threat assessments tell you what is likely to happen to you. We map the threat actors and techniques relevant to your sector and footprint using MITRE ATT&CK, then test your controls against those specific techniques. We extend that lens to the estate most organisations can't even inventory: IoT and connected devices, from building management and physical security systems to medical and industrial devices.
- Threat actor identification and profiling relevant to your sector, geography and technology footprint, using MITRE ATT&CK to test controls against those specific techniques.
- Device discovery and inventory across IoT and connected estates, including configuration, firmware currency, and default credentials.
- Network segmentation review which discovers what a compromised device can reach, with a prioritised remediation and ownership model.
What you walk away with
Security testing during an organisational transformation
We start with discovery to understand what your cyber resilience needs are, depending on drivers such as business complexity and sector. Contact us for a tailored quote.