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Feb 2026
LOLBins Against the Machine: Reverse Engineering at Machine Speed
Purpose Attackers can utilize Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBins) to execute commands, evade detection,...
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“Pentera helps us prioritize what truly matters and gives us confidence we are covering our global environment continuously.”
“Seeing a domain admin account cracked in production changed how we view internal exposure.”
“Pentera helped us advance our red team and continuously improve penetration testing.”
“Pentera makes it easier to focus on what is truly exploitable instead of chasing long vulnerability lists.”
“In a complex, large-scale environment, Pentera delivers the speed and visibility security teams need.”
“Pentera amplified our team’s performance and delivered measurable value to upper management.”
"Pentera allows us to tailor testing to each service, reduce time and costs, and shift our focus from simply finding vulnerabilities to actively helping our teams fix them.”

Rubén Alonso | Head of Secure
Development Unit, Telefonica

“I don’t think we’d be able to advance our red team without Pentera. If you’re looking to improve penetration testing, I would definitely recommend it.”

Owen Fuller | Cybersecurity Engineering
Manager, Casey’s

Adversarial Testing Services

Adversarial Testing Services

SECTOR11’s red teamers complement Pentera’s platform by executing complex testing across applications, cloud, AI, and edge-case scenarios to uncover real, exploitable risks. You receive clear executive-level reports, detailed technical breakdowns, and formal compliance-ready attestation.
Pentera experts become your offensive security team
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What SECTOR11 can do for you

Let our experts test
your security

SECTOR11 brings a research-led approach to adversarial testing, informed by thousands of engagements across global enterprise environments. Our experts execute threat scenarios aligned to your business requirements, delivering documented proof of real-world exploitability, clear business impact, and formal attestation for executives and compliance.
Services offered

Define the testing scenario that
fits your business needs

Our red teamers complement Pentera’s platform by adding hands-on testing for the most
advanced testing scenarios and edge cases.

Test & Comply
Test & Comply
Test & Comply

Extend Pentera’s platform testing with elite red teamers who rigorously test your environment, delivering a signed penetration test with formal attestation for audit and compliance.

Application Penetration Testing
Application Penetration Testing
Application Penetration Testing

Research-led testing of web, mobile, API, and thick-client applications.

AI Red Teaming
AI Red Teaming
AI Red Teaming

Specialized adversarial testing of AI systems, integrations, and infrastructure, including LLM usage, agentic workflows, model pipelines, prompt abuse scenarios, and more.

Advanced Cloud Penetration Testing
Advanced Cloud Penetration Testing
Advanced Cloud Penetration Testing

Hands-on, exploitation-driven assessment of cloud identities, services, misconfigurations, and trust relationships across single and multi-cloud environments.

Advanced Red Teaming
Advanced Red Teaming
Advanced Red Teaming

A full attack-chain simulation that mirrors real-world threat actors, from reconnaissance and initial access to lateral movement and full compromise of crown-jewel assets across enterprise environments.

Assumed Breach Evaluation
Assumed Breach Evaluation
Assumed Breach Evaluation

Threat-led simulation originating from a defined foothold to evaluate lateral movement, privilege escalation, and access to business critical assets.

How it works

What to expect from a
SECTOR11 engagement

Engagement planning & kickoff
Define scope and align objectives and expectations, define ROE and and escalation paths, define testing windows and prerequisites demands
Execution window
SECTOR11 experts conduct adversarial testing within agreed constraints, with ongoing status reviews and alignment checkpoints
Revalidation
Our team retests to confirm fixes and provides follow-up reporting to validate remediation
Deliverables
Our experts provide interim updates, immediate notification of critical findings, and a final report with detailed evidence and remediation guidance
Reporting for regulators & compliance
Each SECTOR11 engagement delivers audit-ready attestation aligned with industry standards and compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, NIS2, and more.
Deliverables include a signed report with validated attack execution and confirmed access obtained. Findings are supported with exploit reproduction and documented business impact. Each report also provides clear, prioritized remediation guidance to support audit and regulatory requirements.
Platform context

How expert services
relate to the platform

SECTOR11 uses outputs from Pentera’s Exposure Management Platform as context. Engagement findings feed back into the platform to support revalidation and ongoing assurance.
Reviews

Customer Reviews

"Pentera's password-cracking capabilities, which effectively test even complex credentials, allow us to verify that employee passwords are not only compliant but also resilient against modern cracking techniques."
IT Security and Risk Management
Telecommunications
"The best solution for automated pentesting. It's a very capable tool. It's fast and easy to use. Clearly readable reports are provided."
Cybersecurity Engineer
Aviation
"Thanks to Pentera, we have been able to identify key areas for improvement, apply mitigations and then quickly re-assess to validate the fixes impact. This allowed us to achieve a quick return on investment within our first few months of usage."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Manufacturing
“When Pentera came into our environment, we never imagined it would be possible to enumerate and crack a domain admin account - but once we saw it happen, our eyes were opened. It was a real “wow” moment.”
Richard Lee
Director of Cybersecurity
“Pentera Core accurately replicates real-world attacker techniques, providing a true picture of the organization's security posture.”
Director of Cyber Defense 
Financial Services
"Pentera has changed my executive reporting for the better. Being able to utilise Pentera to better explain the security controls and investments made by executives has improved my working life dramatically.”
Grant B.
Threat and Vulnerability Manager
“Partnering with Pentera was a great decision for our team. I don’t think that we’d be able to advance our red team along if we didn’t have that partnership there. If somebody is looking to partner with Pentera or find a way to improve their pen testing, I would definitely recommend checking them out. It’s just fantastic.”
Owen Fuller
Cybersecurity Engineering Manager
“Pentera enables us to efficiently conduct highly automated pentests on our hybrid networks and improve our overall security posture. Due to the high efficiency of Pentera, we are able to deliver security assessments with a low headcount.”
IT Security and Risk Management
Manufacturing
"Great pentesting tool to protect your company. It allows us to compare and remediate vulnerabilities. It gives us a perspective of how secure our systems are and what to improve on.”
Information Security Manager
Financial Services
“Best security tool to improve the security posture of your organization. Over the years, it has proven to be a great and essential tool to manage and test our security posture.”
SOC Manager
Consumer Goods
“Pentera makes security easy. It gives me the ability to validate all of my security posture in one application.”
Andrew H.
Chief Executive Officer, Managed Security Services
"The AD assessment keeps us at the best level of user passwords as we communicate and help users to set strong passwords. We do like that there is a "how to" to reinforce our security posture based on Pentera capabilities."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Telecommunications
“Pentera makes it easier to address the most important issues instead of overwhelming teams with massive lists of vulnerabilities. Pentera significantly helped us identify security findings quickly, including password vulnerabilities in Active Directory. We were able to address these and pass them on to the appropriate support teams.”
Andreas Melzer
Head of Security
"We have evaluated multiple products and Pentera's came on-top. The deployment was very quick and straightforward. We were able to see valuable results right away. We also saw cost reductions in ongoing red-team efforts."
Dr. InfoSec
IT Services
“In higher ed, we’re dealing with decentralized IT, thousands of endpoints, and constant change. Pentera helped us see which vulnerabilities were actually exploitable across campus networks instead of chasing every CVE. That shift alone changed how we prioritize remediation.”
Information Security Manager
Higher Education
“What I love the most about it is that it carries out complete VAPTs with the utmost simplicity, and by analyzing the vulnerabilities, proposes the necessary remediations in a clear and timely manner.”
Alfio S.
Cybersecurity Analyst, Financial Services
"Pentera's pentesting software is a must have tool for any IT Security team!"
IT Security and Risk Management
Energy and Utilities
“All the achievements Pentera gets are actionable! No more asking IT Admins and Developers to patch things that can be exploited in your environment. It brings agility to your vulnerability/exploitability management processes. New exploits are released with every new version and seems to be up to pace with current trends.”
Raphael R.
SOC Manager, Financial Services
"Capabilities such as the ransomware emulation test help us assess the effectiveness of our EDR and other security solutions. All the findings and vulnerabilities were presented in a detailed and easily understandable manner. This allows us to determine which vulnerabilities require priority attention."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Telecommunications
“We already had vulnerability management in place. What Pentera gave us was visibility into real attack paths in our hybrid environment. Seeing what was truly exploitable, and then revalidating after remediation, made our risk discussions a lot more concrete.”
Cybersecurity Risk Manager
Insurance
"The ability of the tools to lessen the time of penetration testing versus the manual way. The validation has unique features that most VA doesn't have. With this tools, you can manage at ease and implement and deploy the software in just a few hours.”
Regidor R.
Lead System Engineer, Manufacturing
“We assumed our security controls would block most realistic attack paths. Pentera showed us how an attacker could move from a low privilege foothold to privilege escalation and lateral movement across critical systems. Being able to emulate ransomware scenarios safely in production made the gaps impossible to ignore.”
Director of Cybersecurity
State Government
"This solution exceeds our expectations in terms of visibility and demonstration. It allows us to correct exploitable flaws and write our action plans easily. Configuration is easy, reports are comprehensive, and actions to take are well documented."
Head of Security and Architecture
Healthcare and Biotech industry
“Our logistics infrastructure runs 24/7, so we can’t rely on downtime heavy testing. Pentera allowed us to emulate real world attack scenarios against operational systems and confirm whether our defenses would actually prevent disruption.”
IT Security Manager
Global Logistics Company
“The platform provides clear visibility into our security posture through continuous, realistic attack simulations, helping us identify and prioritize real risks. It is stable, easy to operate, and delivers ongoing value beyond traditional pt.”
IT Associate
Construction
“Pentera became a performance amplifier for our team, allowing us to deliver significant value to upper management with a small, condensed team. The wow moment for me with Pentera was the savings around the ransomware modules—we’re now saving millions of dollars every time we run a ransomware test.”
Shawn Baird
Director
"Peace of mind! Pentera brings continuous visibility and valuable insights. In addition to constantly updating its innovative platform, Pentera has a partner attitude in its DNA and works closely with customers to improve its products."
João Paulo T.
Information Security Manager
"We are very satisfied: asset compliance is regularly verified as well as our resilience to new attacks."
Chief Information Security Officer
Real Estate
“Pentera solves the problem of identifying and prioritizing security vulnerabilities by automating penetration testing and providing continuous security validation. This benefits us by ensuring that we can detect and address critical threats in real-time, enhancing our overall security posture and efficiency in remediation efforts.”
Rubén L.
Security Analyst and Pentester
“In an environment defined by complexity, scale, and constant attack possibilities, Pentera delivers the speed and visibility security teams need.”
João Paulo Talvo de Carvalho
Azul Airlines
​​"This tool made my day 100X quicker. Using Pentera allows me to shorten the time it takes to assess my customers from weeks to days, it's irreplaceable in our workload.”
Jordan G.
Security Consultant, Cybersecurity Services
"Best Automated Security Validation Solution In The Market! Pentera’s automated security validation platform is extremely intelligent and simplifies operations significantly."
IT Cybersecurity Analyst
Energy and Utilities
"The innovative solution to take IT security to a new level. Pentera is an easy-to-use but powerful and necessary IT security solution.”
Head of IT Security
Internet Services
"Gain visibility and remediation of weaknesses before an attacker has a chance to!״
Security Engineer
Enterprise
“Providing even small Teams with the means of finding and prioritizing relevant attack paths and remediation measures.”
Information Security Lead
Retail
"This automated red team activity saved us! it helps detect vulnerabilities we never thought existed in our network and it challenges our security systems on a regular basis so we are always on top of things."
Systems Team Leader
Healthcare and Biotech
"Pentera is easy to use, and unlike other products it allows you to validate vulnerabilities in production without fear. Pentera allows you to save time by obtaining effective results.”
Information Security Manager
Healthcare
“Fully automated pentesting solution with attack scenarios, proof of concept, non destructive and with automated cleanup. I would never change that solution for another one!”
Director, IT Security and Risk Management
Healthcare and Biotech
"With Pentera, you can emulate ransomware in your business environment in a safe manner. This is what our organization was looking for.”
Cybersecurity Risk Manager
Banking
"Our experience with Pentera has been very positive. The platform has allowed us to move from occasional, highly manual penetration tests to a more continuous and automated validation of our security controls. It provides realistic attack paths, and helps us demonstrate our security posture to both technical teams and management."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Telecommunications
"Pentesting Just Got Better with Penetra! The time it saves versus the manual way. We were able to run more scans and spend less. The features are great and the support is very likely responsive.”
Raymond C.
Systems Engineer
“We run complex multi cloud and CI/CD environments, and assumptions break fast at that scale. Pentera identified exploitable attack chains in production that traditional scanning never surfaced. That level of continuous validation is now part of our release confidence.”
Head of Security Engineering
Global Technology Company
“I love the fact that everything is automated and can be scheduled to our liking make it very easy to use continuously. The wide range of scenarios and how customizable they are allow to cover a lot of use cases easily is also very appreciable. The attack path for every achievement/exploit is always detailed, with references to security standards/remediation steps helping us a lot in understanding what we have to do to fix the vulnerabilities/misconfigurations in our environment.”
Cybersecurity Engineer
Manufacturing
"Pentera's password-cracking capabilities, which effectively test even complex credentials, allow us to verify that employee passwords are not only compliant but also resilient against modern cracking techniques."
IT Security and Risk Management
Telecommunications
"The best solution for automated pentesting. It's a very capable tool. It's fast and easy to use. Clearly readable reports are provided."
Cybersecurity Engineer
Aviation
"Thanks to Pentera, we have been able to identify key areas for improvement, apply mitigations and then quickly re-assess to validate the fixes impact. This allowed us to achieve a quick return on investment within our first few months of usage."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Manufacturing
“When Pentera came into our environment, we never imagined it would be possible to enumerate and crack a domain admin account - but once we saw it happen, our eyes were opened. It was a real “wow” moment.”
Richard Lee
Director of Cybersecurity
“Pentera Core accurately replicates real-world attacker techniques, providing a true picture of the organization's security posture.”
Director of Cyber Defense 
Financial Services
"Pentera has changed my executive reporting for the better. Being able to utilise Pentera to better explain the security controls and investments made by executives has improved my working life dramatically.”
Grant B.
Threat and Vulnerability Manager
“Partnering with Pentera was a great decision for our team. I don’t think that we’d be able to advance our red team along if we didn’t have that partnership there. If somebody is looking to partner with Pentera or find a way to improve their pen testing, I would definitely recommend checking them out. It’s just fantastic.”
Owen Fuller
Cybersecurity Engineering Manager
“Pentera enables us to efficiently conduct highly automated pentests on our hybrid networks and improve our overall security posture. Due to the high efficiency of Pentera, we are able to deliver security assessments with a low headcount.”
IT Security and Risk Management
Manufacturing
"Great pentesting tool to protect your company. It allows us to compare and remediate vulnerabilities. It gives us a perspective of how secure our systems are and what to improve on.”
Information Security Manager
Financial Services
“Best security tool to improve the security posture of your organization. Over the years, it has proven to be a great and essential tool to manage and test our security posture.”
SOC Manager
Consumer Goods
“Pentera makes security easy. It gives me the ability to validate all of my security posture in one application.”
Andrew H.
Chief Executive Officer, Managed Security Services
"The AD assessment keeps us at the best level of user passwords as we communicate and help users to set strong passwords. We do like that there is a "how to" to reinforce our security posture based on Pentera capabilities."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Telecommunications
“Pentera makes it easier to address the most important issues instead of overwhelming teams with massive lists of vulnerabilities. Pentera significantly helped us identify security findings quickly, including password vulnerabilities in Active Directory. We were able to address these and pass them on to the appropriate support teams.”
Andreas Melzer
Head of Security
"We have evaluated multiple products and Pentera's came on-top. The deployment was very quick and straightforward. We were able to see valuable results right away. We also saw cost reductions in ongoing red-team efforts."
Dr. InfoSec
IT Services
“In higher ed, we’re dealing with decentralized IT, thousands of endpoints, and constant change. Pentera helped us see which vulnerabilities were actually exploitable across campus networks instead of chasing every CVE. That shift alone changed how we prioritize remediation.”
Information Security Manager
Higher Education
“What I love the most about it is that it carries out complete VAPTs with the utmost simplicity, and by analyzing the vulnerabilities, proposes the necessary remediations in a clear and timely manner.”
Alfio S.
Cybersecurity Analyst, Financial Services
"Pentera's pentesting software is a must have tool for any IT Security team!"
IT Security and Risk Management
Energy and Utilities
“All the achievements Pentera gets are actionable! No more asking IT Admins and Developers to patch things that can be exploited in your environment. It brings agility to your vulnerability/exploitability management processes. New exploits are released with every new version and seems to be up to pace with current trends.”
Raphael R.
SOC Manager, Financial Services
"Capabilities such as the ransomware emulation test help us assess the effectiveness of our EDR and other security solutions. All the findings and vulnerabilities were presented in a detailed and easily understandable manner. This allows us to determine which vulnerabilities require priority attention."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Telecommunications
“We already had vulnerability management in place. What Pentera gave us was visibility into real attack paths in our hybrid environment. Seeing what was truly exploitable, and then revalidating after remediation, made our risk discussions a lot more concrete.”
Cybersecurity Risk Manager
Insurance
"The ability of the tools to lessen the time of penetration testing versus the manual way. The validation has unique features that most VA doesn't have. With this tools, you can manage at ease and implement and deploy the software in just a few hours.”
Regidor R.
Lead System Engineer, Manufacturing
“We assumed our security controls would block most realistic attack paths. Pentera showed us how an attacker could move from a low privilege foothold to privilege escalation and lateral movement across critical systems. Being able to emulate ransomware scenarios safely in production made the gaps impossible to ignore.”
Director of Cybersecurity
State Government
"This solution exceeds our expectations in terms of visibility and demonstration. It allows us to correct exploitable flaws and write our action plans easily. Configuration is easy, reports are comprehensive, and actions to take are well documented."
Head of Security and Architecture
Healthcare and Biotech industry
“Our logistics infrastructure runs 24/7, so we can’t rely on downtime heavy testing. Pentera allowed us to emulate real world attack scenarios against operational systems and confirm whether our defenses would actually prevent disruption.”
IT Security Manager
Global Logistics Company
“The platform provides clear visibility into our security posture through continuous, realistic attack simulations, helping us identify and prioritize real risks. It is stable, easy to operate, and delivers ongoing value beyond traditional pt.”
IT Associate
Construction
“Pentera became a performance amplifier for our team, allowing us to deliver significant value to upper management with a small, condensed team. The wow moment for me with Pentera was the savings around the ransomware modules—we’re now saving millions of dollars every time we run a ransomware test.”
Shawn Baird
Director
"Peace of mind! Pentera brings continuous visibility and valuable insights. In addition to constantly updating its innovative platform, Pentera has a partner attitude in its DNA and works closely with customers to improve its products."
João Paulo T.
Information Security Manager
"We are very satisfied: asset compliance is regularly verified as well as our resilience to new attacks."
Chief Information Security Officer
Real Estate
“Pentera solves the problem of identifying and prioritizing security vulnerabilities by automating penetration testing and providing continuous security validation. This benefits us by ensuring that we can detect and address critical threats in real-time, enhancing our overall security posture and efficiency in remediation efforts.”
Rubén L.
Security Analyst and Pentester
“In an environment defined by complexity, scale, and constant attack possibilities, Pentera delivers the speed and visibility security teams need.”
João Paulo Talvo de Carvalho
Azul Airlines
​​"This tool made my day 100X quicker. Using Pentera allows me to shorten the time it takes to assess my customers from weeks to days, it's irreplaceable in our workload.”
Jordan G.
Security Consultant, Cybersecurity Services
"Best Automated Security Validation Solution In The Market! Pentera’s automated security validation platform is extremely intelligent and simplifies operations significantly."
IT Cybersecurity Analyst
Energy and Utilities
"The innovative solution to take IT security to a new level. Pentera is an easy-to-use but powerful and necessary IT security solution.”
Head of IT Security
Internet Services
"Gain visibility and remediation of weaknesses before an attacker has a chance to!״
Security Engineer
Enterprise
“Providing even small Teams with the means of finding and prioritizing relevant attack paths and remediation measures.”
Information Security Lead
Retail
"This automated red team activity saved us! it helps detect vulnerabilities we never thought existed in our network and it challenges our security systems on a regular basis so we are always on top of things."
Systems Team Leader
Healthcare and Biotech
"Pentera is easy to use, and unlike other products it allows you to validate vulnerabilities in production without fear. Pentera allows you to save time by obtaining effective results.”
Information Security Manager
Healthcare
“Fully automated pentesting solution with attack scenarios, proof of concept, non destructive and with automated cleanup. I would never change that solution for another one!”
Director, IT Security and Risk Management
Healthcare and Biotech
"With Pentera, you can emulate ransomware in your business environment in a safe manner. This is what our organization was looking for.”
Cybersecurity Risk Manager
Banking
"Our experience with Pentera has been very positive. The platform has allowed us to move from occasional, highly manual penetration tests to a more continuous and automated validation of our security controls. It provides realistic attack paths, and helps us demonstrate our security posture to both technical teams and management."
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Telecommunications
"Pentesting Just Got Better with Penetra! The time it saves versus the manual way. We were able to run more scans and spend less. The features are great and the support is very likely responsive.”
Raymond C.
Systems Engineer
“We run complex multi cloud and CI/CD environments, and assumptions break fast at that scale. Pentera identified exploitable attack chains in production that traditional scanning never surfaced. That level of continuous validation is now part of our release confidence.”
Head of Security Engineering
Global Technology Company
“I love the fact that everything is automated and can be scheduled to our liking make it very easy to use continuously. The wide range of scenarios and how customizable they are allow to cover a lot of use cases easily is also very appreciable. The attack path for every achievement/exploit is always detailed, with references to security standards/remediation steps helping us a lot in understanding what we have to do to fix the vulnerabilities/misconfigurations in our environment.”
Cybersecurity Engineer
Manufacturing

Frequently asked questions

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No. Sector11 engagements complement Pentera’s Exposure Management Platform. The platform delivers continuous exposure validation, while Sector11 provides focused, expert-led adversarial engagements designed around specific objectives, technologies, or regulatory requirements.

Yes. All Sector11 engagements are fully scoped and authorized in advance by our customers, with defined guardrails and non-destructive techniques. Activities are coordinated with the customer to ensure safe execution within live environments.

Sector11 provides documented proof of exploitability and business impact, informs prioritized remediation, and supports governance and compliance review.

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