Penetration Testing in East Lansing, MI
Manual, exploit-driven security testing for organizations in East Lansing. Fixed price, audit-ready reports mapped to ISO 27001, and a free remediation retest.
What a penetration test is really for
CyberFortify runs manual web, API, network and cloud penetration tests for East Lansing organizations, with findings mapped to ISO 27001 and the other frameworks Michigan businesses answer to.
A scanner produces a list. A penetration tester produces a path — the specific chain of steps that turns a minor flaw into a breach. Organizations in East Lansing across Ingham County operate within Michigan’s economy of automotive and mobility, advanced manufacturing and healthcare, and the systems that run that work — public applications, internal systems and the cloud infrastructure tying them together — are exactly what CyberFortify is engaged to test.
When a East Lansing company is compromised, the entry point is rarely exotic. It is a reused password, an exposed admin panel, an API that trusts a client-supplied user id. A penetration test finds those the same way an attacker would — by trying, not by guessing from a report.
We approach East Lansing the same way an attacker would: find the weak link, prove the impact under control, and document every step so it can be reproduced, fixed and verified.
The threats facing East Lansing organizations
Risk in Michigan looks different by industry. For the sectors that anchor East Lansing, this is what attackers target and what our testing is built to find.
Automotive and mobility
Automotive manufacturers, suppliers and dealer networks span plant-floor OT, connected-vehicle data and dealer systems holding customer finance information. ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE R155 now set expectations for cybersecurity across the vehicle lifecycle and its supply chain.
We test the manufacturing environment and its IT boundary, the platforms and APIs handling connected-vehicle and customer data, and the dealer-facing systems where personal and financial information concentrates.
Manufacturing
Manufacturers increasingly run converged IT and operational-technology networks, where a phishing email that lands in the front office can end up on the plant floor. Downtime is measured in lost production, and ransomware operators know it — manufacturing is among the most-targeted sectors for exactly that reason.
We test the corporate network and the boundary between it and the OT environment, following the paths an attacker would use to move from email to ERP to the systems that control production, with safety and uptime treated as hard constraints.
Healthcare and providers
Provider groups, clinics and digital-health companies hold protected health information across patient portals, scheduling systems, EHR integrations and a widening fleet of connected devices. A single broken authorization check can expose one patient’s record or an entire panel, and the HIPAA Security Rule treats that exposure as a reportable event with real financial and reputational cost.
We test patient portals and their APIs for broken object-level authorization, insecure direct object references and session weaknesses, examine the integrations that move records between systems, and assess whether a compromised clinical workstation can reach data it should never touch.
Penetration testing services for East Lansing
Pick the services that match your exposure; most East Lansing clients run two or three together in one engagement.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Broken access control, cross-tenant authorization and business logic, tested by hand.
Network Penetration Testing
Whether your segmentation holds once someone is already inside the network.
OT & ICS Penetration Testing
IEC 62443-aligned assessment of the plant floor and its SCADA systems.
Cloud Penetration Testing
How far a single leaked key or workload gets in your cloud tenant.
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Local storage, certificate pinning and the API behind the app.
API Penetration Testing
Object-level authorization, token scope and mass assignment across your endpoints.
Evidence for the frameworks Michigan businesses answer to
Given Michigan’s automotive and mobility, advanced manufacturing and healthcare, these are the frameworks a East Lansing engagement most often produces evidence for. One test, evidence for all of them.
How a East Lansing engagement runs
The same sequence every time, so the result is defensible.
Testing aligns to PTES and NIST SP 800-115, application work follows OWASP, and exploitation maps to MITRE ATT&CK. Automated tooling enumerates the surface; a named tester confirms every finding by hand.
Findings your team can fix and your auditor accepts
Every finding is reproducible, scored in context, and tied to the control it defeats.
The example alongside is illustrative — not from a client engagement — to show how each issue is documented and mapped to ISO 27001 and the standards Michigan organizations answer to.
| Ref | Finding | Severity | CVSS |
|---|---|---|---|
| F-01 | IDOR exposes cross-tenant records | Critical | 9.1 |
| F-02 | Over-privileged service account | High | 8.2 |
| F-03 | Session persists after reset | Medium | 5.4 |
| F-04 | Verbose error disclosure | Low | 3.1 |
What sets a East Lansing engagement with us apart
A scan-and-report vendor
Automated output rebadged as a test. Severities the tool assigned, findings you cannot reproduce, no real attempt at authorization logic or privilege escalation — and a report your assessor hands back. The retest is a new invoice.
CyberFortify
A named tester who works the target by hand, chains findings to prove real impact, and writes them so a East Lansing engineer can fix them and an auditor can accept them. Fixed price, same-day critical escalation, retest included.
Penetration testing in East Lansing, answered
Do you need to be on-site in East Lansing?
Most of it is remote. Application, API, cloud and external testing does not require us in the building, and that covers the majority of Michigan engagements. Where scope is internal network, wireless or physical, we arrange to be on-site and cost the travel transparently.
What should a East Lansing company budget for a test?
There is no per-city rate; cost tracks the size of the engagement — how many apps, cloud accounts, hosts and roles are in scope. You get a fixed quote after scoping, usually the same hour, and it holds for the agreed work.
Can we hand the report straight to our assessor?
It is designed to. Each finding is reproducible, scored and tied to the control it breaks, which is what an assessor needs. For most Michigan businesses the relevant framework is ISO 27001, and we scope the engagement to it directly.
What do you focus on for Automotive organizations?
We test the manufacturing environment and its IT boundary, the platforms and APIs handling connected-vehicle and customer data, and the dealer-facing systems where personal and financial information concentrates. In a East Lansing engagement that usually starts with plant-floor ot exposure and works outward from there.
Can you sign our vendor security questionnaire?
Yes. We complete SIG, CAIQ and custom questionnaires and can join the vendor review call. For East Lansing companies selling into larger enterprises, a current test plus a completed questionnaire is usually what unblocks the deal.
How quickly can you begin in East Lansing?
Lead time is usually one to two weeks once scope is set, less if an audit or customer deadline is pressing. The scoping call is where we lock the price and the date.
Penetration testing near East Lansing
We work across Michigan. See nearby cities or the full state overview.
Test your East Lansing systems before someone else does.
A 30-minute scoping call gets you a fixed price and a start date, usually within the hour.