Altius IT's auditors deliver independent black box penetration testing for cloud providers, e-commerce platforms, aerospace and defense suppliers, healthcare networks, and gaming studios across Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. We identify the security debt that rapid cloud adoption and complex supply chains leave behind.
Seattle's economy runs on cloud-native infrastructure operated at the source, e-commerce platforms processing huge transaction volumes, aerospace supply chains feeding Boeing in Everett, healthcare networks protecting patient data, and gaming studios in Bellevue and Redmond. Each of these environments accumulates security debt: misconfigured AWS and Azure permissions, unprotected e-commerce APIs, gaps in CMMC controls at defense suppliers, and account takeover exposure in retail and gaming. Altius IT's black box penetration test targets these weaknesses with the same techniques used by sophisticated threat actors hunting Pacific Northwest organizations.
Our auditors begin with open-source intelligence (OSINT) gathering, DNS enumeration, and technology fingerprinting to map your external attack surface. For Seattle cloud and e-commerce operators with sprawling AWS and Azure footprints, this phase identifies exposed staging environments, forgotten subdomains, leaked API keys in public repositories, and shadow cloud resources spun up by engineering and data science teams.
We test your firewall rules, open ports, VPN gateways, and external services to find exploitable entry points. Many Seattle area organizations operate hybrid or cloud-first infrastructure across multiple AWS regions, Azure subscriptions, and on-premise data centers, creating a network perimeter that is fluid and difficult to define, let alone secure, particularly for aerospace and healthcare operators with strict segmentation requirements.
Our web application testing follows the OWASP Top 10 methodology, targeting SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), authentication bypass, and API security vulnerabilities. For Seattle's e-commerce and retail technology operators, we pay particular attention to checkout and payment flows, OAuth implementations, JWT handling, and API rate limiting that protect customer transactions, loyalty programs, and order data against credential stuffing and bot abuse.
When vulnerabilities are found, we develop proof-of-concept exploits that demonstrate real business impact. In cloud-native environments, this means showing how a misconfigured IAM role, an exposed S3 bucket, or an open Kubernetes dashboard could give an attacker access to production databases, patient records, source code repositories, or payment infrastructure.
Penetration testing works alongside a broader cybersecurity audit to provide Seattle organizations with a complete security assessment. Learn about our team or schedule a free consultation to discuss your testing scope.
Seattle's cloud providers, e-commerce operators, aerospace suppliers, healthcare networks, and gaming studios need penetration testers who understand AWS and Azure architectures, retail API ecosystems, CMMC-regulated supply chains, and the account takeover and ransomware threats targeting the region.
No vendor ties or product sales. Our findings reflect your actual risk, not a sales pipeline.
Led by experts with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, CISA certification, and hands-on cloud security experience.
Deep experience testing AWS, Azure, and GCP environments, container orchestration, and serverless architectures.
Complimentary retesting after your engineering team ships fixes, integrated with your release cycle.
Seattle's tech culture prioritizes speed, scale, and global reach across cloud, retail, aerospace, healthcare, and gaming. Security often becomes an afterthought until a customer requires a SOC 2 report, a federal contract requires CMMC, or a ransomware incident hits a hospital network. The result is accumulated security debt: misconfigured AWS and Azure environments, e-commerce API endpoints without proper authentication, overly permissive IAM roles, and secrets hardcoded in source repositories. Penetration testing surfaces this debt before attackers exploit it.
Seattle is home to AWS and Microsoft Azure, and customers expect strong cloud security from organizations operating on these platforms. Our penetration testers evaluate cloud account isolation, IAM and RBAC boundaries, S3 and Azure Blob storage exposure, secrets management, and the data exposure risks specific to cloud-native deployments handling customer PII, payment data, patient records, or controlled unclassified information.
The Seattle area is home to Amazon, Costco, Nordstrom, Expedia, and Zillow, plus the technology arms of Starbucks and other national retailers. These platforms process enormous transaction volumes and must comply with PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and the Washington Privacy Act. Our penetration testing targets checkout and payment flows, account creation and login endpoints, gift card and loyalty APIs, and partner integrations to verify that customer data remains protected against injection attacks, account takeover, credential stuffing, and business logic flaws.
For Boeing-tier aerospace suppliers, we test segmentation between corporate networks and CMMC-scoped enclaves, plus the controls that protect ITAR and DFARS-regulated technical data from IP theft. For Fred Hutchinson, Seattle Children's, UW Medicine, and biotech operators like Adaptive and Seagen, we simulate ransomware entry paths and assess the defenses around clinical and research data. For Bungie, Valve, Microsoft Gaming, and Nintendo of America, we focus on account security, microtransaction abuse, and APIs that face constant credential stuffing pressure.
In addition to Seattle proper (Downtown, Capitol Hill, Belltown, South Lake Union, and Pioneer Square), Altius IT provides penetration testing services throughout King County and the Eastside (Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, Sammamish, Mercer Island, Renton, Kent, Federal Way, Auburn, Burien), Pierce County (Tacoma), and Snohomish County (Everett, Lynnwood, Bothell). Our engagements are conducted both remotely and on-site across the Pacific Northwest.