Assurance of Non-Disruptive Penetration Testing with DeepStrike
Last update: September 25th, 2025
At DeepStrike, we know how important it is to keep your production environment safe during penetration testing. We understand that any disruption to your applications or systems can significantly impact your business. Our approach ensures that your production environment stays unaffected by our testing activities. Here’s why our method won’t impact your production environment:
1. Experienced Penetration Testers
Our team consists of skilled penetration testers and bug bounty hunters who have extensive experience testing in live production environments. They have worked on hundreds of public and private bug bounty, maintaining the live state of applications and systems with zero outages. Their expertise helps us confidently navigate our customers' production environments while minimizing any potential disruption.
2. Non-Disruptive Actions
We are committed to preserving the stability of your applications. We avoid making actions that could adversely affect your systems, such as brute force attacks that might cause server downtime. By being cautious and discreet, we ensure your production environment remains secure and operational throughout the testing process. When testing in production, we refrain from testing the following vulnerabilities without prior consent and permission from the security team, Including but to not limited to.
- Brute forcing attacks
- Rate-limiting testing
- Stress testing
- Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
- Large-scale data extraction
- Automated scanning and fuzzing
- Resource exhaustion attacks
- Unexpected attack
- CPU spike tests
- Cache poisoning under heavy load
- High volume API abuse
- Injection attacks at high volume
- Application state corruption testing
- Cache poisoning under load
3. Manual Testing Approach
We rely solely on manual techniques during penetration testing to maintain complete control and awareness of our actions. By avoiding automated tools, we ensure every action is meticulously analyzed and understood. This hands-on approach prevents any unintended disruptions that automated tools might introduce.
4. Open Communication Channel Between Our Teams
We believe open communication is crucial, especially for critical actions. We maintain clear communication channels with your team through Slack, seeking their permission and involving them in decision-making before performing specific actions. This collaborative approach ensures you are always informed about the testing progress, changes, and any potential impact on your production environment.
5. Testing from Single VPN Source
Additionally, we conduct our testing through a single VPN connection. This allows us to closely monitor and quickly identify if our testing activities are causing any issues. This approach ensures that any potential problems can be detected and addressed immediately, minimizing the risk to your production environment.
6. Controlled Testing Accounts and Fake Data
To ensure your users' data remains secure and prevent unintended actions, we create dedicated testing accounts and use fake data specifically for testing. This approach allows us to identify and test vulnerabilities without impacting real user accounts or altering genuine data. By testing only on our accounts, we eliminate the risk of unintended attacks or data breaches.
7. Efficient Bug Confirmation
Our team can confirm vulnerabilities swiftly and accurately. With their expertise, they can identify and validate bugs with minimal disruption to your systems. We prioritize efficiency, allowing us to confirm findings using the fewest requests possible, reducing any potential impact on your production environment.
Finally, In hundreds of penetration testing engagements with our clients testing their production environments, we have achieved a perfect record of zero outages. Our expertise and careful approach ensure the stability and integrity of even the most complex systems. We can provide references from clients whose highly complicated production environments we have tested, showing our dedication to delivering secure and reliable penetration testing services.