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Security testing that does not keep pace with your environment is not a posture. It is a snapshot with an expiry date.
At Exploit Forge, we help organizations build a testing cadence that reflects how their environment actually changes.
DM ASSESS to find out what the right rhythm looks like for you.
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Most organizations still treat security testing like a tax return. Something you do once a year, file away, and forget about until the next cycle.
The problem is that your environment does not stay still between tests. Code ships. Dependencies update. Cloud configurations drift. New people join with new access. Old integrations accumulate permissions nobody has reviewed in months.
The test you ran last year tells you what was true last year. It says very little about what is true today.
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12 weeks ago, we joined DiSH Cohort 7 alongside 20 startups.
12 weeks of honest conversations, hard questions, and invaluable peer learning.
We leave with sharper thinking, stronger relationships, and a clearer vision of what we’re building.
The accelerator ends. The work continues.
#cybersecurity #Founders #Startups #CyberInnovation #manchester
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We get asked often what we look for when hiring.
The technical bar matters. But it rarely separates the ones who work out from the ones who don't.
What actually does:
Curiosity beyond the brief.
Communication that translates.
Resilience under ambiguity.
These things can be taught. Most programmes don't teach them.
And we’re changing that. Check out the @ExFacademy page.
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Thinking about moving from IT support, networking, or sysadmin into offensive security?
You already have the foundation. What you need is the mindset and hands-on practice.
That’s why we’ve built @ExFacademy.
#cybersecurity #offensivesecurity #learning #training #ExploitForge
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Paul Johnston: Security Consultant at Pentest Limited and OWASP Manchester Chapter Lead. How architecture cures bad code before it ever becomes a vulnerability.
📅 11th September 2026, 10:00–15:00 BST
📍 GM Digital Security Hub (DiSH), Manchester
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Meet the speakers joining us for the Version 2 launch of @threatmindAI .
Agwu Ushiang Kalu: Staff Information Security Engineer at Landytech (CISM, CISSP, CCSP). Making engineers your security team, without them even knowing it.
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Is this a secure design?
If yes, tell us why. If not, what flaws can you spot?
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AI is changing the economics of security work. Tasks that took hours reviewing pull requests, generating remediation suggestions, mapping attack surfaces can now happen in minutes. That is not replacing security engineers. That is giving them leverage they have never had before.
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The AI and security conversation tends to go in one of two directions either AI is going to replace security engineers, or it is all hype.
Both framings miss what is actually happening….
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Security talent isn’t limited by geography.
The assumption in the global security industry…that serious offensive security, the kind that operates at the highest levels of the industry comes from a specific set of countries is wrong. And it is becoming more obviously wrong every year.
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Before we wrote a single test case, we ran a threat model asking who would actually want to compromise this organization, what they would be after, and what paths they would take that nobody had thought to document.
That conversation produced a map that looked different from the architecture diagram.
The exposed internal API was not in scope. It was not in anyone's documentation. But it was reachable from the internet, completely unauthenticated, and directly connected to the data the client cared most about protecting.
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The finding that matters most is rarely the one you expected.
This engagement started as a standard external web application test. Two weeks. Defined scope. Clear deliverables.
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Real offensive security means thinking the way attackers think, understanding how systems break, how controls fail, and how weaknesses chain together into something catastrophic before anyone outside your engagement does.
At Exploit Forge, that is the standard we hold ourselves to on every engagement.
DM ASSESS to find out what that looks like for your environment.
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Offensive security is one of the most misunderstood disciplines in the industry.
It gets conflated with automated scanning, reduced to compliance exercises, and treated as something you do once a year rather than a continuous, rigorous practice.
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Nigeria has had a software problem nobody wanted to say out loud.
Projects deployed without independent validation. IT failures. Security gaps. Eroding public trust.
NITDA's Software Quality Assurance Framework changes that.
#securityawareness #cybersecurity #Compliance #SoftwareEngineering
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Nigeria's regulatory pattern is consistent. Frameworks start with government, then expand. CBN. NDPC. Now NITDA.
The organizations that move now won't be scrambling when enforcement arrives.
At Exploit Forge, we're already doing this work. The framework is catching up to us.
DM ASSESS before the deadline does it for you.
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NITDA's new Software Quality Assurance Framework makes independent third-party testing mandatory for government software projects from Q2 2027.
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We're proud to share that our UK Director, @_aligorithm, has been named a finalist in the Cyber Diversity Award category at the National Cyber Awards 2026 @thecyberawards.
This recognition reflects Aliyu's commitment to advancing diversity in cybersecurity and Exploit Forge's growing contribution to the UK cyber ecosystem.
#NationalCyberAwards #cybersecurity #CyberDiversity #UKCyber #cybersecawards
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Every meaningful conversation has the potential to shape what comes next.
The DiSH Accelerator Programme continues to provide valuable opportunities to learn, exchange ideas, and connect with founders, mentors, and industry leaders who are passionate about building the future of cybersecurity and innovation.
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If you hesitated on any of these, that's not a failure. It's a starting point. We help fast moving teams answer all five with confidence.
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Before your next launch, five questions worth asking yourself honestly.
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Real attackers don't respect departmental boundaries or seniority. If the path exists from a junior employee's laptop to your production database, that path will be used regardless of how unlikely it looks on paper. A proper red team engagement tests exactly these kinds of lateral movement paths.
#RedTeam #CyberSec #offensivesecurity #ExploitForge
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We built the programme we wish existed.
If you've been asking how to get into offensive security properly, this is your answer.
@ExFacademy
Exploit Forge Academy: Offensive Security Practitioner programme. Hands-on. Practitioner-led. Built for people who want to do this for real.
Join the waitlist now and be the first to know when registration opens: academy.exploit-forge.com
#offensivesecurity #cybersectraining #techskills #exploitforgeacademy #cybersecurity
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The teams we respect most aren't the ones who hope we find nothing. They're the ones who tell us to test them harder, who run toward the uncomfortable finding instead of away from it.
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Every great journey starts with a single step.
ExploitForge Academy is here🚀.
@ExFacademy
Built for aspiring cybersecurity professionals, career switchers, and curious minds ready to develop practical skills, think like attackers, and defend like professionals.
The journey starts now.
Join the waitlist: academy.exploit-forge.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/exploit…
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Every week, we get messages asking the same question: "Do you offer training programs?"
Well...
You called and we answered...
Now we're calling back.
ExploitForge Academy is here🚀.
Built for people who want to learn cybersecurity the way it's practiced in the real world or looking to sharpen their offensive security skills.
The next generation of offensive security practitioners starts here.
Join the waitlist below: academy.exploit-forge.com
#cybersecuritytraining #cybersecurity #offensivesecurity #techskills #exploitforgeacademy
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We know exactly what makes an engagement hard for us.
Tight logging that catches us moving, detection that fires before we've finished, least privilege that turns one foothold into a dead end, segmentation that means the thing we compromised doesn't hand us the kingdom and many more.
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We’ve been cooking something.👨🍳
Built by practitioners.
For practitioners.
Want to find out? Watch this space.🚀
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Security without offensive understanding is just hope. And hope is not a strategy. We built something for the people who want to actually know what they're doing, not just pass a test.
Follow us.
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Exploit Forge is now an official member of CyberNorth. The organisation championing the North East of England's cyber community across cyber, AI, data, and quantum.
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If any of these hits close to home, you're not alone. The security training industry has a problem. We've been building the solution.
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We spent a long time asking this question before we decided to do something about it. Passive learning has its place. But offensive security? You learn by doing or you don't really learn at all.
Follow us. The answer drops soon.
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Exploit Forge is in the UK.
Not as a flag planted on a map. As practitioners on the ground, in the room, doing the actual work.
We think like attackers. We work like professionals. And now we do it on this side of the world too.
Watch what happens next.
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One year ago today, we shipped xjwt.io, Exploit Forge's first open-source project. A browser-based JWT decoding and cracking toolkit built for security professionals who'd rather not context-switch to a terminal every time they need to inspect or test a token.
Since launch, it's been picked up by pentesters, AppSec engineers, and students sharpening their skills on token-based authentication vulnerabilities.
Genuine question: if you've used xjwt.io in a pentest, a CTF, or just to understand how JWTs work under the hood, how has it fit into your workflow? I'd love to hear.
Big thanks to @commando_skiipz for collaborating with Exploit Forge on building this.
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Introducing the JWT Security Checker; Powered by ExploitForge.
We’re excited to officially unveil JWT Security Checker, a powerful web-based tool designed to help security engineers, penetration testers, and developers analyze, crack, and test the strength of HMAC-signed JSON Web Tokens; all from a user-friendly interface.
This innovation was born to make life stress free for red teamers, pentesters and developers. So we partnered with a brilliant mind @commando_skiipz in the security community to build something better, a next-level, no-terminal-needed utility hosted and maintained by the team at ExploitForge.
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Most security courses teach you how to pass a test not how to do the actual work. The gap between certification and real-world skill is massive. And nobody is talking about it.
We would like to. Watch this space.
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We're halfway through 2026 and the breach landscape has been unforgiving. Misconfigured systems.
Third-party vendor risk.
Detection gaps stretching months, not days. The pattern is clear: most of it was preventable. That's exactly the gap we exist to close. exploit-forge.com.
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Day one inside the DiSH Accelerator was a success.
Represented by our UK Director, @_aligorithm. Exploit Forge is part of Cohort 7. 20 startups. 12 weeks in Manchester.
The UK chapter is open. The work starts now.
Watch this space.
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We've been selected for the 2026 Barclays Eagle Labs DiSH Accelerator in Greater Manchester, alongside a strong group of fellow founders, duly represented by Aliyu Yisa, @_aligorithm, our UK Director. We're offensive and product security specialists. We test the way an attacker would, finding and fixing weaknesses before someone else does. If you're building technology, that's our work.
ALT Orange Exploit Forge announcement graphic showing an open envelope with a message that Exploit Forge has been selected for the 2026 Barclays Eagle Labs Digital Security Hub (DiSH) Accelerator in Greater Manchester. The company logo is at the top, with social media handles and website at the bottom.
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The best security work is often invisible. If no breach happens, there’s no headline, no applause, no celebration, just another quiet quarter. We see what goes into creating that quiet. The logs that catch our moves. The alerts that trigger before we finish. The access controls that stop a small compromise from becoming a big one. Someone built those defenses, often with little recognition. So, from the people whose job is to test and get past your defenses: respect.
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Every assessment teaches something.
Different organisations.
Same patterns.
This month's Field Notes highlights the findings, assumptions, and attack paths we keep seeing across assessments.
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The goal isn't another report.
It's making every security exercise that follows more focused, realistic, and useful.
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Threat modelling has a reputation for being abstract. It shouldn't be.
Done properly, it helps you understand what matters most, who might target it, how they could get to it, and what should be tested first.
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Here is the uncomfortable version of how most penetration test scopes get defined.
A penetration test is only as good as its scope.
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This one bites back.
Can you spot the vulnerabilities?
Drop your answers below.
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Attackers don't spend the first hour looking for sophisticated exploits.
They look for what's been overlooked.
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Behind every strong family, community, and future is the impact of fathers and father figures who lead with love, responsibility, and sacrifice.
Today, we celebrate you. Happy Father's Day🤍.
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Honest question before the weekend. Which security assumption worries you most?
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Most organisations don't have a tool problem.
They have a visibility problem.
The firewall sees it.
The EDR detects it.
The SIEM stores it.
Nobody connects it.
Attackers do.
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