Our Security Experts

DarkPoint Security's team is composed of dedicated offensive security professionals with deep expertise in penetration testing, vulnerability research, and adversary simulation. Every consultant on our team holds industry-recognized certifications and brings years of hands-on experience identifying and exploiting security weaknesses across complex enterprise environments.

Our consultants have disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities to major vendors, published original security research, and conducted thousands of penetration testing engagements for organizations across Canada. When you work with DarkPoint, you work directly with the experts who perform the testing -- we never outsource assessments to third parties.

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Industry-Leading Certifications

Our team's certifications represent proven, hands-on proficiency in offensive security -- not theoretical knowledge alone. Each certification listed below requires passing rigorous practical examinations that test a consultant's ability to identify, exploit, and document real vulnerabilities under demanding conditions.

  • OSCP -- Offensive Security Certified Professional -- Validates advanced penetration testing skills through a grueling 24-hour hands-on examination. OSCP holders demonstrate the ability to research, identify, and exploit vulnerabilities across diverse systems and networks, then document findings in a professional report. This is the industry's most respected offensive security certification.
  • OSCE -- Offensive Security Certified Expert -- An expert-level certification that goes beyond standard penetration testing into advanced exploitation techniques, including custom exploit development, shellcode creation, and bypassing modern security protections. OSCE holders possess deep technical knowledge of how software vulnerabilities are discovered and weaponized.
  • OSWE -- Offensive Security Web Expert -- Demonstrates mastery of white-box web application security testing, including source code analysis, authentication bypass, server-side request forgery, and complex injection attack chains. OSWE certification validates the ability to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in web applications that black-box testing alone would miss.
  • CRTO -- Certified Red Team Operator -- Focuses on adversary simulation and Active Directory attack techniques, including Kerberos abuse, delegation attacks, trust exploitation, and command-and-control infrastructure. CRTO holders are trained to simulate advanced persistent threat (APT) tactics against enterprise Windows environments.
  • CEH -- Certified Ethical Hacker -- Covers a broad range of ethical hacking methodologies and techniques across network, web, wireless, and social engineering attack vectors. CEH provides a comprehensive foundation in penetration testing concepts and tools used throughout the industry.
  • CISSP -- Certified Information Systems Security Professional -- The gold standard for information security management, validating expertise across eight security domains including security architecture, risk management, cryptography, and security operations. CISSP certification ensures our team understands security from both an offensive and strategic perspective.
  • CISM -- Certified Information Security Manager -- Demonstrates proficiency in information security governance, program development, risk management, and incident management. CISM certification ensures our recommendations align with business objectives and enterprise risk tolerance.

Our Approach

Every engagement conducted by DarkPoint Security follows a manual-first methodology that prioritizes depth and accuracy over speed and automation. While automated vulnerability scanners play a role in the reconnaissance phase, our consultants spend the majority of their time performing hands-on testing -- manually probing systems, analyzing application logic, and crafting creative attack chains that no scanner can replicate.

Our process begins with thorough reconnaissance and attack surface mapping, where we work to understand your environment from an attacker's perspective. From there, our consultants systematically identify vulnerabilities, chain them together to demonstrate realistic attack paths, and escalate privileges to quantify the true business impact of each finding. We test for business logic flaws, race conditions, authentication and authorization bypasses, and complex multi-step attack scenarios that require human intuition and creativity to uncover.

This approach consistently surfaces critical vulnerabilities that organizations have missed through years of automated scanning alone. By combining deep technical expertise with a methodical, adversary-focused mindset, our team delivers findings that meaningfully improve your security posture -- not just a list of CVEs from a scanner output.

Every assessment concludes with a detailed, evidence-based report containing step-by-step reproduction instructions, root cause analysis, risk ratings aligned to your business context, and actionable remediation guidance. We include complimentary retesting to verify that your fixes are effective and complete.

Published Security Research

One of the strongest indicators of a penetration testing team's capability is their track record of original vulnerability discovery. DarkPoint Security's consultants have responsibly disclosed multiple zero-day vulnerabilities to major technology vendors and have been assigned CVE identifiers for their discoveries. This research demonstrates the same depth of analysis and exploitation skill that we bring to every client engagement.

Our published vulnerability research includes discoveries affecting a range of enterprise technologies:

  • Enterprise VoIP and communication devices widely deployed in corporate environments
  • Unified communications and video conferencing infrastructure used by organizations worldwide
  • Application delivery controllers and load balancing infrastructure that protect enterprise networks
  • Application delivery and load balancing platforms used in production environments

Each disclosure followed a responsible coordination process with the affected vendor, ensuring that patches were available before public disclosure. These CVE publications represent real-world vulnerability discovery -- the same skillset that makes our penetration testing engagements effective at uncovering critical issues in your environment.

View our full list of published advisories and CVE details on our Publications page.

Areas of Expertise

Our team's experience spans the full spectrum of offensive security disciplines. This breadth of expertise allows us to assess your organization's attack surface comprehensively, regardless of the technologies and platforms in your environment.

  • Network Infrastructure -- Active Directory exploitation, VLAN hopping, lateral movement techniques, privilege escalation, network segmentation bypass, NTLM relay attacks, Kerberos abuse, and domain compromise. Our consultants specialize in demonstrating full attack chains from initial foothold to domain administrator access.
  • Web Applications -- OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, business logic testing, authentication and authorization bypass, server-side request forgery, insecure direct object references, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and complex multi-step attack chains. We test both black-box and white-box, including source code review.
  • Cloud Environments -- AWS, Azure, and GCP security assessments covering IAM misconfigurations, overly permissive policies, insecure storage buckets, exposed metadata services, serverless function vulnerabilities, and cloud-specific privilege escalation paths.
  • Mobile Applications -- iOS and Android application security testing, including reverse engineering, runtime manipulation, certificate pinning bypass, insecure data storage, API security analysis, and binary exploitation for both native and hybrid mobile applications.
  • Social Engineering -- Phishing campaign design and execution, pretexting, vishing (voice phishing), physical security testing including badge cloning, tailgating, and facility access bypass. We measure human vulnerability and provide targeted training recommendations.
  • Red Team Operations -- Full-scope adversary simulation engagements that test your organization's detection and response capabilities across all attack surfaces simultaneously. We employ the same tactics, techniques, and procedures used by advanced persistent threats to provide a realistic assessment of your security operations.

Why Our Team Stands Out

Organizations across Canada choose DarkPoint Security because our team delivers penetration testing that goes beyond checkbox compliance. Here is what sets us apart:

  • 10+ Years of Offensive Security Experience -- Our consultants bring over a decade of hands-on experience in penetration testing, vulnerability research, and adversary simulation. This depth of experience means we have encountered and exploited virtually every class of vulnerability across every major technology stack.
  • 10,000+ Security Assessments Completed -- Our team has collectively conducted thousands of penetration testing engagements across network, web application, cloud, mobile, and social engineering domains. This volume of real-world testing sharpens the intuition and pattern recognition that distinguishes exceptional pentesters from average ones.
  • 0% Outsourcing -- Every assessment is performed entirely by DarkPoint Security's in-house consultants. We never subcontract testing to third parties, offshore teams, or junior analysts. When you engage DarkPoint, you know exactly who is testing your systems and can communicate with them directly throughout the engagement.
  • 100% Canadian -- DarkPoint Security is a Canadian-owned and Canadian-operated firm based in Toronto, Ontario. All testing is conducted by consultants located in Canada, and all data remains within Canadian jurisdiction. For organizations subject to Canadian data residency requirements or regulatory frameworks, this provides an additional layer of assurance.
  • Published Vulnerability Researchers -- Our team does not just run tools -- we discover new vulnerabilities. Our CVE publications demonstrate the depth of technical skill and creative thinking that we apply to every client engagement.
  • Manual-First Methodology -- We invest the time to test manually, think creatively, and chain vulnerabilities together to demonstrate realistic attack scenarios. This approach consistently uncovers critical issues that automated scanning alone will never find.
  • Actionable Reporting -- Our deliverables are written for both technical and executive audiences, with clear reproduction steps, root cause analysis, and prioritized remediation guidance. We include complimentary retesting to confirm that your fixes are effective.
  • Cross-Industry Expertise -- From financial services and healthcare to technology startups and government agencies, our experience spans regulated and high-security industries where the consequences of a breach are severe and the compliance requirements are demanding.

Ready to put our expertise to work for your organization? Contact us to schedule a consultation and learn how DarkPoint Security can strengthen your defenses.