Utilities Studio / Security practice
Know what needs fixing. Give your team the evidence to act.
A customer is waiting for a pentest report. Your developers need findings they can reproduce. You need to explain which risks deserve time and budget. Our cybersecurity work connects the assessment to those decisions.
Bring the reason you need help, even if you do not know which assessment to ask for. We can work through the customer request, the systems involved, and the questions your team needs answered. The scope should reflect your product and its risks.
Founder / CTO
An enterprise customer or investor wants a pentest before the deal can move. You may be handling security yourself. Bring their request and your deadline so we can work out the coverage and reporting needs with you.
Plan your penetration testHead of Security / CISO
You need to explain what an attacker could do and why a finding deserves engineering time. Our assessments connect technical evidence to business impact. Bring previous findings so unresolved risks can inform the scope.
Work through the findings backlogEngineering / DevOps lead
You need the affected component, the steps that reproduce the issue, and guidance that relates to the system you run. We document those details so your team can investigate the finding and plan the fix.
Explore API penetration testing01 / Our services
Test the systems behind your product. Each assessment defines the access, workflows, and boundaries to examine, with evidence your engineers can use.
Manual penetration testing for your applications, cloud, and networks. Get validated findings with reproduction steps, business impact, and guidance for your engineers.
Test authentication, access controls, and business logic in your web application. Get reproducible findings and remediation guidance for your engineering team.
Assess API authentication, object-level authorization, role boundaries, and sensitive data exposure. Get evidence your developers can reproduce.
Test iOS and Android applications for insecure storage, exposed secrets, and broken access controls. Scope the mobile client and its backend together.
Assess internal and external networks for exploitable services, access weaknesses, and routes to sensitive systems. Get evidence and remediation priorities.
Test attack paths across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud permissions and workloads. Validate exploitable risk with evidence and remediation guidance.
Assess desktop applications for exposed secrets, insecure local data, and trust in client-side controls. Test the client and agreed backend interfaces.
Assess prompt injection, RAG data exposure, and agent tool abuse. Test the permissions and trust boundaries around your AI application.
02 / Our services
Work through the risks that remain after a report: permissions to tighten, findings to close, and threats to understand. Focus the work on your cloud environment, access controls, and remediation priorities.
Review AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud security. Assess IAM permissions, exposed services, and workload boundaries, with a prioritized hardening plan.
Validate vulnerability findings, prioritize exposed assets, and organize remediation. Build a vulnerability management workflow around your existing tools.
Review privileged access, service accounts, authentication, and permission boundaries. Get an IAM assessment and practical least-privilege recommendations.
Assess relevant threat activity, vulnerability research, and external exposure. Turn intelligence into specific detection, testing, and remediation decisions.
Pentest delivery
We share validated findings during the test through the agreed secure channel. Critical issues go to your nominated contact immediately. Progress updates cover completed work, blockers, and what comes next.
Your engineers get affected assets, reproduction steps, evidence, and remediation guidance. We explain severity using the demonstrated impact. An executive summary sets out the business risk and the limits of the assessment.
A technical findings review lets your engineers discuss the evidence and recommended fixes with us. We name the technical contact and agree the support period and response arrangements before testing.
Retesting checks fixes to the original findings and records the result. Before booking, we specify the findings covered, retest rounds, time window, and any charges. New features or changed environments need a scope review.
We agree the findings format and handover method with your team. If you use Jira, Linear, or GitHub, we scope the export or ticket handover, required access, and treatment of sensitive evidence before testing.
Your proposal sets the start date, testing window, and report delivery date after we review scope and access. Bring your audit or release deadline so remediation and retesting can be planned around it.
Delivery references: NIST SP 800-115 and CREST's penetration testing programme guide.
The practitioner behind the work
Sheeraz Ali is our Head of Cybersecurity. His work spans application, cloud, network, and AI assessments. His personal track record includes leading pentests at Cobalt and building the internal pentest programme at SolarWinds.
Read Sheeraz's security backgroundSheeraz's personal track record
His website lists OSCP, CRTP, CRTE, CREST CRT and CPSA, CBBH, and CKA.
At SolarWinds, he delivered 120+ internal pentests. As CTO at Pwned Labs, he built a platform serving 40,000+ practitioners. He co-developed Mobexler, selected for Black Hat Arsenal, and presented research at Nullcon and c0c0n.
Explore his career timelineFAQ
Start with the question you need to answer. Penetration testing investigates exploitability. Cloud and IAM reviews examine specific controls. Vulnerability management organizes ongoing remediation. We can help scope the work around your critical systems and the decision you need to make.
Sheeraz Ali is Utilities Studio's Head of Cybersecurity. His personal website documents his work at Cobalt, SolarWinds, Hack The Box, and Pwned Labs. We identify the practitioners, responsibilities, and technical contacts for your engagement before testing starts.
Cost depends on the assets, technical complexity, access, testing depth, and reporting requirements. Share an inventory and the reason for testing so we can prepare a scope. Retesting and ongoing work are defined in the proposal.
Yes. The engagement can include a findings review with the engineers responsible for remediation. Reports identify the affected components and supporting evidence so your team can investigate and plan changes.
Tell us what your team needs to resolve, which systems are involved, and any deadline. We will work through the scope and reporting needs with you.