Continuously find, fix, and verify your exploitable attack surface
Endida is one of the few MSSPs and licensed resellers in the UK, of the NodeZero Platform from Horizon3. Implementing NodeZero gives a production safe, continuous find, fix, and verify loop that empowers your organisation to reduce your security risk, by autonomously finding exploitable weaknesses in your cloud, on-prem and hybrid infrastructure.
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See how NodeZero gives you continuous, comprehensive risk assessment so you can manage exposure using proof, not probability:
NodeZero autonomously executes these key operations for assessing and validating your security posture:
Internal Pentests
Internal Pentests identifies vulnerabilities such as software misconfigurations, weak credentials, and insufficient security controls that could lead to domain compromise, data theft, and ransomware exposure. This helps organisations protect internal assets and ensures resilience by continuously assessing and reducing risks across various internal network infrastructures.
External Pentests
External Pentests assess the security of publicly accessible assets like websites, servers, and applications. By scanning for exploitable vulnerabilities in external-facing systems, NodeZero ensures that organisations stay ahead of evolving attack vectors. It helps prevent external threats from infiltrating the network through these critical access points, offering proactive security.
Cloud Pentests
Cloud Pentests are designed to identify IAM misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in cloud environments like AWS, Azure and Kubernetes. By continuously testing cloud infrastructure, it helps organisations secure their assets in hybrid and multi-cloud setups. The automated nature of these pentests ensures scalability, offering comprehensive coverage and detailed remediation reports.
AD Password Audit
Attackers don’t hack in, they log in. Compromised credentials underpin a high percentage of cyberattacks. Continually verify the effectiveness of your credential
policies to ensure you’re not leaving a welcome mat out for bad actors.
Phishing Impact Tests (Blast Radius)
Phishing Impact Tests captures compromised credentials during internal phishing exercises. It then shows how attackers could leverage phished credentials to escalate privileges, move laterally through the network, or access sensitive data. By understanding the real-world impact of being phished, organisations reinforce their defenses against credential-based attacks.
EDR Efficacy Test
Even world-class EDRs like SentinelOne, CrowdStrike, or Defender may be deployed in “detect only” mode, be outdated, or misconfigured. Customers assume they’re fully protected — until an attacker proves otherwise. Test for critical gaps and prove your EDR or SOC is actually stopping real attack chains.
Rapid Response
Rapid Response Service provides new attack content for the most critical vulnerabilities recently added to the CISA KEV. Organisations run a targeted test so they can rapidly respond to zero-day or N-day vulnerabilities. This real-time capability determines if a vulnerability is exploitable, which minimises potential damage, and ensures rapid mitigation of critical vulnerabilities.
NodeZero Insights
NodeZero Insights offers a comprehensive view of the exploitable attack surface from multiple perspectives, tracking its evolution over time. It provides valuable metrics for risk reduction and compliance, with insights displayed through intuitive dashboards. Users can also generate detailed security reports for auditors and boards, ensuring transparent and effective communication. Reports include, Pen Test Report, Exec Summary, Fix Actions Report, Segmentation Report, Enumeration Report.
Breach Mindset and Internal Pentests
As we move into 2026, cyber security leaders are facing a hard but necessary truth: assume the breach has already happened!
This principle, long advocated by the NCSC, reflects the reality of modern threat landscapes. Perimeter-focused security models are no longer sufficient. Credentials are routinely stolen, vulnerabilities are inevitably exploited, and supply chains introduce risk far beyond an organisation’s direct control. The critical question is no longer if an attacker gains access, but how far they can progress once inside your environment. The breach mindset is not just a security philosophy — it is increasingly embedded in global and local cyber security rules, data protection regulations, and assurance frameworks such as ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus. Whether protecting vasts amount of data, meeting local or International cyber security requirements, or maintaining certification, regulators and auditors are looking for evidence of:
- Effective segmentation and access control
- Robust detection and response capabilities
- Ongoing assurance as digital environments grow and threats evolve
By continuously emulating attacker behaviour from within the environment, autonomous internal testing:
- Validates network segmentation, identity controls, and privilege boundaries
- Proves the real-world effectiveness of SOC operations and EDR tooling
- Challenges assumptions made during certification and regulatory assessments
- Identifies and evidences viable attack paths to sensitive or regulated data
Point-in-time assessments alone can no longer provide this level of confidence. Once an attacker is inside, they focus on: Lateral movement, Privilege escalation, Accessing sensitive or regulated data
Adopting a breach mindset — and reinforcing it with autonomous internal penetration testing, transforms compliance, assurance, and security strategy into a continuous, measurable, and defensible capability.
Continuously Test Your Production Environment
64%
Number of organisations have experienced at least one successful cyber attack in the past year.
Source: Ponemon Institute International
$600bn
The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy
Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies
84%
Number of organisations that conduct regular penetration testing and identify critical vulnerabilities.
Source: Association of Certified ISAOs
80%
Number of senior IT employees and security leaders believe that companies lack sufficient protection against cyber attacks.
Source: (ISC)’s 2021 Cyber Workforce report
How does NodeZero Compare to a Vulnerability Scanner?
Many of clients use NodeZero alongside vulnerability scanners to help prioritise fixes and allocate resources. NodeZero, compared to traditional vulnerability scanners, provides a more comprehensive security assessment by simulating real-world attack scenarios. This approach not only identifies vulnerabilities but also evaluates the potential impact and exploitability of those vulnerabilities in a real-world context, offering a more actionable insight for remediation. This method can be more effective in identifying complex security issues that might be overlooked by conventional scanners.
Not all vulnerabilities identified by scanners are exploitable in real-world scenarios. Vulnerability scanners often provide a list of potential security weaknesses based on known vulnerability databases and patterns. However, the context, configuration, and specific environment in which these vulnerabilities exist can greatly affect their exploitability. Some identified vulnerabilities may be theoretical, mitigated by other controls, or not applicable due to specific system configurations, making them non-exploitable in practice.
Benefits of the NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
Accuracy
Autonomously test and help you fix problems that matter, saving you time and money
Effort
NodeZero is up and running in hours, not weeks, our fully certified Horizon3 team we do all the work for you to ensure you are testing within a few days
Speed
No need to wait weeks or months for consultants to manually run pentests and produce reports - NodeZero will enable any IT or SoC team to testing within a few hours of implementation
Coverage
NodeZero will cover your entire internal and external network - it even works with IoT Devices and Cloud storage too.
Remediation
NodeZero automatically creates actionable, curated reports to enable your team to quickly find exploitable problems, fix them and then verify that the problems no longer exist
Privacy
The platform is GDPR compliant, with our EU AWS instance hosted in Frankfurt
Horizon3 NodeZero Compliance Information
- SOC 2 Type II Compliant
- GDPR compliant, with EU instance hosted in Frankfurt
- Pentests adhere meticulously to PCI DSS requirement 11.4.1
- Pentests also meet the requirements of other standards including System and Organization Controls (SOC), ISO/IEC 27001, Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Center for Internet Security (CIS), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards.
- Pentests follow the internationally recognised MITRE ATT&CK framework and are representative of a real-life attack.
- FedRAMP® High Authorisated
- Pentests can also be CREST certifed
QUESTIONS? HERE ARE THE ANSWERS
Penetration testing is a process of testing computer systems, networks, and applications to identify vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. It involves simulating real-world attacks to determine the effectiveness of an organisation’s security defences.
Penetration testing can help organisations identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in their security defences before attackers can exploit them. It can also help organisations meet compliance requirements and improve their overall security posture.
The types of pen testing include network testing, web application testing, mobile application testing, social engineering testing, and wireless network testing
Endida’s autonomous penetration testing uses tools and AI to scan systems for vulnerabilities and exploits without the need for time consuming human intervention.
Automated testing simply automates certain tasks, it does not “think” like AI does.
Manual pen testing involves actual human testers who use their knowledge to identify vulnerabilities, however this is limited to their own training & knowledge. They may miss something if they do not know it is an issue.
The frequency of pentesting should be determined by factors such as the organisation’s risk profile, the sensitivity of its data, and the nature of its operations. Generally, organisations should conduct pen testing at least once every 6 months and after any significant changes to their systems or networks.
Some common challenges with penetration testing include false positives, lack of resources or expertise, and resistance from stakeholders who may view the testing as a disruption to their operations.
With Endida’s service, all of these issues are eliminated.
Penetration testing involves simulating real-world attacks to identify vulnerabilities and assess the effectiveness of an organisation’s security defences. Vulnerability scanning is an automated process that identifies known vulnerabilities in systems and networks but does not test the effectiveness of security controls.
After a penetration test, the experts here at Endida will present you with a full, in-depth report along with recommendations as well as the professional services needed to fix them. We then prioritise and address the vulnerabilities identified, develop a remediation plan, and conduct regular follow-up testing to ensure that the vulnerabilities have been addressed.
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