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Methodology

Five steps. Five things you walk away with.

We don't sell hours — we sell deliverables. Every CAASLABS engagement, no matter the service, follows the same five steps and produces the same five things. You'll know exactly what you're getting before kickoff, and exactly what's landing in your inbox at every stage.

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  1. Step 01
    Written scope

    Scope

    A written engagement scope before any work begins. Targets, exclusions, success criteria, communication cadence, and emergency contacts. You sign it. We sign it. No surprises, no scope creep.

  2. Step 02
    Attack surface map

    Reconnaissance & baseline

    We map what's actually exposed — not what your asset inventory says is exposed. For offensive engagements, that's an external attack surface map. For DevSecOps engagements, that's a CIS-aligned baseline of your cloud, Kubernetes, and CI/CD posture.

  3. Step 03
    Daily updates

    Execution

    Penetration testing, red-team operations, hardening work, or pipeline integration — whatever the engagement called for. Daily updates in your Slack or email. Zero ghosting. Critical findings reported within 24 hours of discovery, not buried in a final PDF.

  4. Step 04
    Two reports

    Reporting

    Two reports, not one: a technical report with reproduction steps, evidence, and remediation guidance your engineers can act on, and an executive summary your board can read in five minutes. Sample format available on request before you sign.

  5. Step 05
    Verification retest

    Retest & handoff

    A verification retest pass on every critical and high finding. We verify each one is actually closed — not just marked resolved in a ticket. The 60-day retest clock starts the day we deliver the report: you request the retest in writing by day 45, and we complete it by day 60. The 15-day buffer exists because senior practitioners are scheduled in advance against other engagements and the same practitioner who ran the original test should run the retest while environmental context — network topology, tenant structure, tooling state — is still fresh. Included in every offensive and audit engagement (pentesting, red teaming, AI red teaming, and Kubernetes security), no separate SOW.

Operational discipline

Your engagement won't show up in our marketing.

Red-team and offensive engagements depend on operational discipline, and that discipline starts with the team that runs them. No founder photos. No LinkedIn handles tied to client work. No case studies on our homepage in six months. Our operators don't carry public profiles tied to client engagements — and that's intentional. You'll meet your senior lead on the discovery call, under NDA, before any work begins. We'd rather earn your trust on a call than perform it on a homepage.

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Talk to a senior specialist. On your schedule.

Pick a 30-minute slot that works for you — no SDR, no script, no demo deck. Just a conversation about what you're building, what you're worried about, and whether we're the right team to help. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you who is.

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