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AI-era security

AI Exposure Validation

Prove what can really be exploited, fix it fast, and verify the fix worked.

A managed service that finds what AI-assisted attackers and automated tools could actually use against your business across your perimeter, cloud, SaaS, AI workflows and internal attack paths - 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. The most capable AI models reach the largest enterprises first - to find and fix weaknesses before that capability goes public. The day it does, every attacker has the same power, and everyone else is exposed. We bring that level of validation to the businesses that don't get early access.

  • 01

    Frontier AI hardens the giants first

    The newest, most capable models are handed to large enterprises early - to red-team and secure their environments before public release.

  • 02

    Public release arms everyone

    The moment a model goes public, every attacker has the same capability - finding, connecting and chaining weaknesses faster than ever before.

  • 03

    Everyone else inherits the risk

    Mid-size organisations don't get early access to harden first. We use the same AI capabilities to find what they'd find - and close the gap before it's used against you.

Why now

National cyber agencies - the UK NCSC and Australia's ASD ACSC among them - now assess that attackers are already using AI to accelerate reconnaissance, vulnerability research, exploit development and social engineering, and that the time from a weakness being disclosed to it being exploited is getting shorter. The defenders who 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 - SPF, DKIM and 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
  • Printer, NAS and local infrastructure exposure
  • Microsoft 365 and Entra ID security posture
  • Backup and recovery visibility
  • Identity and access management risks
  • Configuration and process weaknesses

Delivered remotely where possible, or via a controlled onsite assessment appliance 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 usage
  • 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
  • LLM risks - prompt injection, sensitive information disclosure, excessive agency, insecure output handling
  • 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? Authorised network penetration testing is available as a scoped add-on, under agreed rules of engagement - delivered with accredited partners where required, never as uncontrolled exploitation.

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
  • Over-privileged AI agent scopes reduced
  • Prompt-injection pathways closed
  • 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 - in person or via an assessment appliance - by prior agreement.

Hybrid Internal Validation Sprint

The Validation Appliance.

When internal visibility or data locality matters, we run a focused onsite sprint using a hardened Validation Appliance - deployed into your environment to safely review internal attack paths, identity and lateral movement, unmanaged devices, open services and segmentation gaps.

A controlled, encrypted, fully authorised workflow - not a black box, and not a consumer gadget. Usually run 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 ACSC Essential Eight.

Every finding is mapped to the Australian Signals Directorate's Essential Eight maturity model - 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.

ASD 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
  • Prompt-injection check on selected AI apps
  • 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.

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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
  • Prompt-injection and unsafe tool-use tests on your AI apps
  • 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

An onsite Validation Appliance sprint for internal attack paths.

  • Hardened Validation Appliance or 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.

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Grounded in ITIL and ISO 27001 practice, with accredited partners brought in for specialist testing.

  • Signed rules of engagement

    Every engagement is authorised in writing - assets, methods, approvers and stop conditions 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.

  • Insured and accountable

    Covered by professional indemnity and cyber liability insurance, with clear incident and escalation terms in every contract.

  • Your data, controlled

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

  • Specialist work, partner-backed

    Where higher-assurance or accredited testing is required, we bring in accredited partners 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 references plus a redacted sample report on request.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Not by default. AI Exposure Validation is broader than a traditional penetration test. It focuses on identifying, validating and prioritising exposure across public, cloud, internal and operational areas. Where deeper ethical testing is required, it's only performed with written authorisation, agreed scope and clear rules of engagement.
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