Adversarial security testing and managed defense — delivered by practitioners who think like the threat actors targeting your organization, not consultants running automated scanners and dressing up the output.
Most security assessments tell you what a scanner found. leapHL tells you what a real attacker would do — because that's what we simulate. Our testing methodology is rooted in true adversarial thinking: we chain findings together the way threat actors do, exploit misconfigurations that automated tools miss, and measure outcomes in terms of business impact, not CVSS scores in isolation. Every finding we report has been manually validated, peer-reviewed, and prioritized by exploitability and blast radius.
Our team brings elite offensive security capabilities — red team operators who have performed some of the most sophisticated adversarial exercises conducted in Canada — alongside continuous threat intelligence and managed detection that extend our clients' defensive posture beyond point-in-time testing. leapHL offers a full spectrum of security services, from initial exploitation to long-term resilience.
We work within a pragmatic, risk-based framework. Our reports are written for two audiences: the technical team that will remediate findings, and the executive or board audience that needs to understand business risk in plain language. We don't pad findings. We don't manufacture urgency. We give you an honest picture of where you stand — and exactly what to do about it.
We attack your external perimeter the way a real threat actor would — enumerating assets, exploiting exposed services, and attempting to breach your environment from the outside. Every finding is manually confirmed and business-contextualized.
Simulating an insider threat or post-breach attacker, we probe your internal network for privilege escalation paths, lateral movement opportunities, and access to critical systems that should never be reachable from a compromised endpoint.
We conduct manual security testing of your web and mobile applications against the OWASP Top 10 and beyond — including business logic flaws, authentication weaknesses, and client-side vulnerabilities that automated scanners routinely miss.
We test every API endpoint — REST, GraphQL, and SOAP — for authentication and authorization failures, injection vulnerabilities, excessive data exposure, rate limiting gaps, and insecure object references that expose sensitive business data.
Multi-stage, realistic attack simulations that test your detection and response capabilities under real-world conditions. Purple team variants include live collaboration between our red operators and your blue team for maximum learning transfer.
We audit your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments for misconfigured services, over-permissive IAM roles, exposed storage buckets, insecure network controls, and gaps in logging and monitoring that leave you blind to cloud-native attacks.
We test LLM-powered applications and AI systems for prompt injection, jailbreaking, sensitive data leakage, model inversion attacks, and indirect injection via external data sources — a critical and underserved security domain.
We build and test your IR playbooks through realistic tabletop exercises — ensuring your team knows exactly what to do when an incident occurs, reducing mean time to contain, and minimizing business disruption from security events.
Beyond our core testing engagements, we offer targeted assessments for specific threat vectors and compliance requirements.
Phishing simulations, vishing campaigns, and pretexting exercises that test your human firewall under realistic conditions.
Manual and automated source code review identifying security defects before they reach production — supports SDLC integration.
Testing Wi-Fi infrastructure for rogue access points, weak encryption, and guest network isolation failures across your facilities.
Non-disruptive assessments of operational technology environments — SCADA, PLCs, and industrial control systems — for security gaps.
Deep configuration review of Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Exchange Online, and Teams for identity risks and data exposure vectors.
Tailgating attempts, badge cloning, lock bypass, and facility intrusion testing to validate physical access controls and staff response.
Every finding is manually validated and reviewed by a second senior practitioner before delivery — zero false positives guaranteed.
From final test day to a complete, executive-ready report in your hands — faster than any peer firm in our market.
In engagements where clients have asked a second firm to validate our work, we have never missed a critical finding. Our track record is spotless.
"We had completed three penetration tests with other firms. Each one gave us the same boilerplate scanner output with a CVSS score chart. leapHL came in and within two days had identified a critical authentication bypass that allowed full administrative access to our ERP system — something every previous firm had missed entirely. The quality difference was night and day."
"The tabletop exercise leapHL ran with our leadership team was one of the most valuable things we've done in security. It exposed three critical gaps in our IR playbooks — gaps that would have added days to our recovery time in a real ransomware event. We fixed every issue within 30 days and feel genuinely more prepared."
The average cost of a data breach is $4.88M CAD. A penetration test costs a fraction of that — and gives you the road map to fix what matters most, before it becomes a headline.