Santa Fe Network Penetration Testing for IT Managed Services Providers (MSPs)

 

IT Managed Services Providers in Santa Fe and across New Mexico are prime targets for cybercriminals. As an MSP, you sit in the middle of your clients’ networks, tools, and data. That means a single successful attack against you can quickly turn into a multi-client incident.

Modern attacks – including ransomware, phishing, password attacks, misconfiguration abuse, and SQL injection – are built to quietly gain access, move laterally, and exfiltrate or encrypt sensitive information. The median reported cost of a data breach in 2021 reached $4.24M, and that excludes many incidents that never make it into public statistics.

For MSPs, this is not just an IT problem. It is a business continuity, contractual liability, and reputation problem. To manage this risk, MSPs in Santa Fe need regular, independent network penetration testing to verify that firewalls, remote access, privileged accounts, and monitoring tools are actually working as intended.

Network penetration testing (net-pen testing) is a controlled, ethical hacking exercise where security specialists simulate real-world attacks on your environment. For MSPs, this typically covers:

• Internal and external networks (including data centers, cloud, and remote access paths)
• RMM and PSA platforms that provide high-privilege access to client systems
• VPNs, firewalls, and remote management gateways commonly used to support Santa Fe and regional New Mexico clients

The outcome is a clear picture of how an attacker could compromise your environment – and by extension, your clients’ – plus prioritized remediation steps so leadership can make informed security decisions and meet vendor, insurance, and regulatory expectations.

 

Santa Fe MSP-Focused Network Penetration Testing Experience

 

OCD Tech provides specialized network penetration testing services for IT Managed Services Providers in Santa Fe and across New Mexico. We understand the realities of MSP operations: tight SLAs, legacy client systems you did not design, aggressive uptime requirements, and limited maintenance windows. Our testing is designed to be thorough but minimally disruptive to your production environment.

Our team combines deep technical expertise with practical IT risk advisory and cybersecurity consulting experience across multiple industries, including healthcare, financial services, public sector, and regional professional services firms commonly supported by MSPs in New Mexico.

When we conduct a penetration test for an MSP, we focus on:

• How easily an attacker could compromise your RMM tools and push malicious changes across multiple client environments
• Privilege escalation paths from low-level accounts to domain admin and service accounts
• Configuration weaknesses in firewalls, VPNs, and remote access solutions you use to manage Santa Fe and statewide clients
• Insider threat and assumed compromise scenarios to see how far a malicious or compromised user could realistically go

The result is not just a list of vulnerabilities, but actionable guidance focused on what matters most for MSPs: preventing widespread client impact and demonstrating mature security to your customers, auditors, and cyber insurers.

 

Network Penetration Testing Methodology

 

OCD Tech follows a rigorous, repeatable methodology aligned with industry best practices. For MSPs in Santa Fe, we tailor our approach to your network architecture, remote access model, and client connectivity. Typical phases include:

• Passive Reconnaissance – Quietly collecting information about your public footprint, exposed services, and related infrastructure without active probing.
• Active Reconnaissance – Safely scanning and probing systems to identify open ports, services, versions, and potential weaknesses in your on-premise and cloud environments.
• Social Engineering – Where in-scope, testing user awareness and processes through scenarios such as phishing aimed at helpdesk or administrative staff.
• Exploitation – Attempting to leverage identified vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to gain initial access, always under agreed rules of engagement.
• Post-Exploitation – Assessing what an attacker could do after entry, including data access, tool abuse, and impersonation of privileged users.
• Privilege Escalation – Identifying paths to move from basic user access to administrative or domain-wide control across MSP and client-related systems.
• Lateral Movement – Testing how easily access can spread between internal segments, management networks, and client-facing infrastructure.
• Maintain Access – Demonstrating how attackers might establish persistence while remaining undetected by standard monitoring.
• Cover Tracks – Showing how logs and traces could be modified or removed, highlighting detection and logging gaps.
• Reporting – Delivering a clear report and executive summary prioritized for MSP leadership and technical teams, including remediation steps, configuration review findings, and recommendations to strengthen your overall IT security posture.

 

National Reach

 

While we frequently work with MSPs and businesses in Santa Fe and throughout New Mexico, OCD Tech also delivers network penetration testing and cybersecurity assessments across the U.S., including:

• Boston (MA)
• New York City (NY)
• Washington DC
• Philadelphia (PA)
• Dallas (TX)
• Los Angeles (CA)
• Chicago (IL)
• Baltimore (MD)

 

Contact Our Santa Fe Network Penetration Testing Consultants

 

OCD Tech provides network penetration testing, IT security assessments, and cybersecurity consulting for IT Managed Services Providers and other businesses in Santa Fe and across New Mexico.

If you would like to discuss a penetration test tailored to your MSP environment, please complete the form below. A member of our team will contact you to review your environment, objectives, and the most appropriate scope for your network security assessment.