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AI-era security

AI Exposure Validation

Prove what a real attacker could actually break into, fix it fast, and verify the fix worked.

This is not a check of whether your AI is secure. It's AI-powered validation of everything a real attacker could break into across your whole business - website, network, cloud accounts, everyday apps like Microsoft 365, the AI tools your team uses, and what's reachable once someone's inside. Every finding comes with evidence, not just a guess.

A managed service that finds what AI-assisted attackers and automated tools could actually use against your business - across your website, cloud accounts, everyday software, AI tools and internal systems - then helps you close it and proves it's closed.

  • Remote-first
  • Controlled & authorised
  • Evidence-based
  • Board-ready reporting
Why AI changes exposure

The risk is no longer just your website. Attackers now use AI to find, connect and exploit weaknesses across a whole business faster than most teams can keep up - and mid-size organisations rarely have the dedicated security people the big end of town does. We use the same AI-assisted research an attacker would to find your real weak points - an exposed password, an unlocked file, a forgotten subdomain - and prove what's genuinely exploitable before someone else does.

  • 01

    AI has changed the attacker's speed

    National cyber agencies now assess that attackers use AI to accelerate reconnaissance and to find, connect and chain weaknesses faster than before - shrinking the time from a weakness appearing to it being used.

  • 02

    The enterprise end has teams for this

    Large organisations run dedicated security functions that continuously test their own exposure and keep pace. That is the standard the rest of the market is now measured against.

  • 03

    Mid-size organisations inherit the gap

    Most don't have that in-house capability - so the same AI-driven techniques land against a surface no one is continuously checking. We bring that continuous validation to close the gap before it's used against you.

Why now

National cyber security agencies - including the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Australia's Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) - now assess that attackers are already using AI to speed up scoping out a target, finding weaknesses, building attacks and tricking staff, and that the time between a weakness becoming known and someone actually using it against you is getting shorter. Businesses that move to continuous validation are pulling away from those who still test once a year.

What we assess

Four layers of exposure.

We assess exposure across your external, internal, operational and AI-related surfaces - then provide evidence, risk ratings and a practical remediation roadmap. You choose how deep each layer goes.

01

Public AI Exposure Review

What can be discovered externally using AI-assisted research, public intelligence and technical checks.

  • Website security and technical health
  • External attack surface visibility
  • Domain, DNS, SSL and certificate posture
  • Email security settings that stop criminals sending fake emails pretending to be you (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
  • Public staff and leadership exposure
  • Publicly visible technology stack
  • Brand and reputation signals
  • AI search visibility and AI answer risk
  • Public data leakage indicators
  • Supplier, partner and client exposure risks
  • Social and profile-based reconnaissance risks
  • External misconfiguration indicators
02

Internal Security & Environment Review

What could be discovered from inside the business environment, where authorised access is granted.

  • Internal network discovery
  • Unknown or unmanaged devices
  • Open internal services
  • Legacy protocols
  • Exposed file shares
  • Weak segmentation
  • Endpoint and security coverage gaps
  • Unpatched or unsupported systems
  • Printers, network storage drives and other local equipment left exposed
  • Microsoft 365 and Entra ID (your staff login system) security settings
  • Backup and recovery visibility
  • Identity and access management risks
  • Configuration and process weaknesses

Delivered remotely where possible, or via a controlled onsite assessment where deeper internal visibility is required.

03

AI & Automation Risk Review

How the business uses AI, automation and connected systems - and whether those workflows introduce security, privacy, governance or operational risk.

  • AI tool usage risks
  • Sensitive data exposure to AI platforms
  • "Shadow AI" - staff quietly using AI tools you haven't approved or reviewed
  • AI-generated content and accuracy risk
  • Workflow automation risks
  • Over-permissioned integrations
  • Poor access control across SaaS tools
  • Insecure handling of documents, prompts or client data
  • Prompt injection and similar attacks - tricking an AI tool into leaking data or acting on instructions it shouldn't
  • Gaps in AI policies and staff guidance
04

Controlled Ethical Security Validation

Validate whether important weaknesses could realistically lead to business impact - safely, and only where agreed.

  • Vulnerability validation
  • External exposure validation
  • Password and MFA risk review
  • Privilege and access path analysis
  • Cloud and SaaS misconfiguration review
  • Phishing simulation, where explicitly agreed
  • AI-assisted attack-chain analysis
  • Business impact explanation
How we keep validation safe

Deeper validation only happens with your written authorisation and agreed rules of engagement.

  • Controlled ethical assessment
  • Authorised testing only
  • Clearly scoped validation
  • Rules of engagement agreed in advance
  • Read-only and non-disruptive wherever possible
  • No destructive testing
  • No unauthorised access
  • No data exfiltration
  • Evidence-based validation
  • Business impact mapping

Need to go further? We also offer authorised network penetration testing as a scoped add-on - a hands-on, simulated break-in attempt. It only runs under a signed rules of engagement document, agreed in advance. Where formal accredited testing is required, we bring in an accredited assessor rather than attempt it ourselves.

How we work with you

Identify, validate, fix - then prove it.

Not a one-off report you're left to action alone. The whole point of validation is proof: that a weakness is genuinely exploitable, and that the fix actually closed it - then keeping watch as your business and the threat landscape keep changing.

  1. 1Identify

    Map what's exposed across perimeter, cloud, SaaS, AI workflows and internal attack paths.

  2. 2Validate

    Human-reviewed, controlled proof of what's actually exploitable - not a raw vulnerability list.

  3. 3Remediate

    Help fix what matters - quick wins first - or work alongside your existing team.

  4. 4Verify

    Retest and prove closure: attack paths broken, exposures closed, evidence your board accepts.

  5. 5Monitor

    Continuous validation as the threat landscape and your business keep changing.

Continuous - monitor feeds back into identify
What we measure

Exposure reduced - not vulnerabilities found.

A longer vulnerability list isn't safer. What matters is what's genuinely exploitable - and whether it actually gets fixed. So that's what we measure.

  • Validated exploitable exposures closed
  • Attack paths broken
  • Median days to fix a verified high-risk exposure
  • Unknown internet-facing assets removed
  • Excess access permissions on AI tools reduced
  • Ways to trick your AI tools (prompt injection) closed off
  • High-risk findings retested and confirmed fixed
  • Board exceptions: remediated vs accepted
Delivery

Remote-first. Controlled onsite where it counts.

Remote-first

Most of the assessment runs remotely - public exposure, cloud and SaaS posture, and AI/automation risk - with no disruption to your environment.

Controlled onsite, where needed

Where deeper internal visibility is required, we run a controlled, scoped onsite review by prior agreement.

Hybrid Internal Validation Sprint

Controlled onsite internal validation.

When internal visibility or data locality matters, we run a focused, authorised onsite sprint to safely review internal attack paths, identity and lateral movement, unmanaged devices, open services and segmentation gaps - using a controlled assessment setup deployed into your environment under signed rules of engagement.

Controlled, scoped and fully authorised - run under signed rules of engagement, and usually after a remote baseline.

What you receive

Evidence, ratings and a roadmap.

  • Executive summary
  • Exposure score / maturity rating
  • Technical findings report
  • Evidence for each finding
  • Risk rating per finding
  • Business impact explanation
  • Quick wins
  • Prioritised remediation actions
  • 30 / 60 / 90 day remediation roadmap
  • Optional remediation support
  • Optional quarterly reassessment
  • Optional continuous monitoring
Exposure maturity
where we take you →
01
Exposed
02
Aware
03
Managed
04
Validated
05
Resilient
Benchmarked against a standard

Mapped to the Essential Eight - the Australian government's baseline cyber security checklist.

Every finding is mapped to the Essential Eight maturity model, published by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) - the recognised baseline for Australian organisations. You get a clear maturity rating and a path to the next level, in language your board and your insurer understand.

An Essential Eight-aligned review, not official certification - it stands on its own or supports a formal certification path.

Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) · Essential Eight ↗
  • 01Multi-factor authentication
  • 02Restrict admin privileges
  • 03Patch applications
  • 04Patch operating systems
  • 05Application control
  • 06Office macro settings
  • 07User application hardening
  • 08Regular backups
Engagements

Land. Expand. Deepen.

Start with a fixed-scope baseline, move to continuous validation as the fixes land, then deepen into internal sprints or a managed program. Every engagement is scoped to your environment and priced by consultation - no fixed SKUs, no surprises.

Land · One-off

Exposure Baseline

A remote-first baseline of your real, exploitable exposure.

  • External attack surface + unknown-asset discovery
  • Cloud and SaaS admin exposure review
  • AI usage and AI-workflow discovery
  • AI-trickery check on selected AI apps (prompt-injection testing)
  • Validation of the highest-risk findings
  • Prioritised remediation plan, mapped to Essential Eight
  • One retest round to confirm closure
Best for

Mid-market firms starting formal exposure management - a fast, fixed-scope first step.

Request a scoped quote
Expand · MonthlyRecommended

AI Exposure Validation Core

Our core engagement - continuous validation, month on month.

  • Everything in Baseline, run continuously
  • Ongoing external + cloud + identity attack-path validation
  • Ongoing AI-trickery and unsafe-tool-use tests on your AI apps (prompt-injection and similar)
  • Remediation tracking with owner-ready actions
  • Fix verification every cycle
  • Monthly risk review and exposure-reduction reporting
Best for

Lean IT/security teams that need continuous validation without full red-team overhead.

Request a scoped quote
Deepen · Per sprint

Hybrid Internal Validation Sprint

A controlled onsite sprint for internal attack paths.

  • Controlled onsite assessment from an approved internal vantage point
  • Identity and internal attack-path validation
  • Lateral movement and segmentation checks
  • Controlled, human-reviewed exploit-chain proof
  • Same-day remediation briefing with ticket-ready evidence
Best for

Regulated, segmented or breach-sensitive clients, and post-acquisition integration - usually after a remote baseline.

Request a scoped quote
Deepen · Program

Managed Exposure Program

Exposure reduction run as a continuous, governed program.

  • Core validation plus quarterly internal-validation sprints
  • Board and leadership reporting
  • Supplier and AI-vendor risk reviews
  • Insurer and auditor evidence pack
  • Dedicated remediation governance
Best for

Larger mid-market organisations treating exposure reduction as a strategic program.

Request a scoped quote
Why Orbit Digital

One partner, validation to action.

  • AI-led, not AI-hype

    We use the same AI-assisted research and reconnaissance modern attackers do - to show you what they'd see, in plain English.

  • Evidence over alarm

    Every finding comes with evidence, a risk rating and a clear business-impact explanation. No fear, no jargon, no inflated scores.

  • Controlled and non-disruptive

    Authorised, scoped and read-only wherever possible. We don't do destructive testing, unauthorised access or uncontrolled exploitation.

  • One partner, validation to action

    The same team can take you from validation to remediation, monitoring and ongoing advisory - so exposure actually gets reduced, not just reported.

How we earn the access we ask for

A security review you can trust with the keys.

Letting anyone look inside your environment is a big decision. So everything runs to a signed scope, read-only by default, with you in control of how deep it goes - and the report is yours to keep.

Request a redacted sample report

Grounded in ITIL and ISO 27001 - the international standards enterprise IT and security teams are run by.

  • Signed rules of engagement

    Every engagement is authorised in writing - assets, methods, approvers, stop conditions and incident-escalation terms agreed before anything starts.

  • Read-only by default

    No destructive testing, no data exfiltration, no unauthorised access. Anything more active is agreed in advance, in writing.

  • Your data, controlled

    Defined data-handling, residency and retention rules - including which AI models touch your data, and what's redacted before they do.

  • We don't overstate our scope

    Where higher-assurance or accredited testing is required, we engage an accredited assessor for it rather than overstate what we do in-house.

  • No lock-in

    Fixed-scope engagements, plain-English reports you own and can take to any provider, and a redacted sample report on request.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Not by default. A traditional penetration test ("pentest") is a focused, hands-on attempt to break into a specific system, usually a one-off. AI Exposure Validation is broader - it identifies, validates and prioritises exposure across your public, cloud, internal and AI-related areas, on an ongoing basis. Where deeper, hands-on testing is required, it's only performed with written authorisation, agreed scope and a signed rules of engagement document (the written terms both sides agree before anything runs).
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