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Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT)

Simulated attacks that find exploitable weaknesses before real attackers do. We combine broad automated scanning with hands-on manual testing, then hand you a prioritised, reproducible report your engineers can act on.

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Overview

Where vulnerabilities hide

VAPT pairs a vulnerability assessment — broad, systematic scanning to enumerate weaknesses across your systems — with penetration testing, where our team manually attempts to exploit those weaknesses the way a real attacker would. Automated tools catch the known and the obvious; skilled manual testing finds the business-logic flaws, chained exploits, and misconfigurations that scanners miss. Every engagement is scoped with you up front so testing stays safe and predictable, and each finding is documented with clear reproduction steps, an evidence trail, and a severity rating aligned to industry standards such as CVSS. The deliverable is a report your engineering team can act on directly — grouped by priority, with concrete remediation guidance rather than raw scanner output. We can retest after fixes to confirm remediation and, where you need it, produce the summary evidence auditors and enterprise customers ask for.

What’s included

  • Combined automated scanning and manual exploitation
  • Clear scope and rules of engagement agreed before testing
  • Findings prioritised by severity (CVSS-aligned) with reproduction steps
  • Actionable remediation guidance for your engineers
  • Optional retest to verify fixes
Who it's for

Who asks for a VAPT engagement

  • SaaS and product teams facing an enterprise security review, vendor questionnaire, or customer-mandated penetration test before a contract closes.
  • Startups and SMEs with no in-house security team who need an independent, evidence-backed view of where they are genuinely exposed.
  • Organisations pursuing ISO 27001, SOC 2, or sector regulation where periodic penetration testing is an expected control.
  • Engineering leaders who have shipped fast for years and want to know what accumulated before they scale the platform further.
When you need it

Signals it's time to test

  • A prospective enterprise customer has asked for a recent third-party penetration test report before signing, and you do not have one.
  • You are about to launch a new product or major release and want testing on the release candidate rather than after it is live.
  • An auditor or certification body has flagged the absence of periodic security testing as a gap in your control set.
  • Your infrastructure has grown through acquisitions or fast hiring, and nobody can confidently say what is exposed or where.
  • A previous scan produced hundreds of raw findings and you need someone to establish what is actually exploitable and what to fix first.
Deliverables

What lands in your inbox

Every engagement ends with something your team can act on — not a slide deck.

  • A prioritised technical report grouped by severity, with CVSS-aligned ratings for every finding
  • Step-by-step reproduction instructions and evidence for each issue, so your engineers can confirm it themselves
  • Concrete remediation guidance per finding, written for developers rather than as generic scanner advice
  • An executive summary that explains business risk in plain language for stakeholders and customers
  • An optional retest and confirmation summary once fixes are deployed
How it works

From scoping to retest

The same predictable shape whether the work is an assessment or a build, so you always know what happens next.

  1. 1

    Discover

    We start by understanding your systems, goals, and constraints — scope, risk tolerance, and what success looks like — so the work is aimed at your actual problem, not a generic template.

  2. 2

    Assess or build

    For security work, we test and analyse against recognised standards. For development, we build in small, reviewable increments. Either way, you see progress early and can change direction.

  3. 3

    Report or ship

    You get clear, prioritised deliverables — a report your engineers can act on, or working software shipped to your environment — with the context to understand what was done and why.

  4. 4

    Support

    We stay available after delivery: retesting fixes, iterating on the product, and answering the questions that come up once real users and real traffic arrive.

FAQ

VAPT — common questions

How is VAPT priced?

We price VAPT on scope rather than a fixed list price, because engagements vary enormously. The drivers are how many applications, hosts, and APIs are in scope, how many distinct user roles and permission levels need testing, whether testing is black-box or credentialed, and whether you want a retest after remediation. We agree scope and a fixed quote before any testing begins, so there are no mid-engagement surprises.

How long does a VAPT engagement take?

Duration follows scope, and we confirm a schedule with you before starting. A single web application with a couple of user roles is a much shorter engagement than a multi-application platform with a large external network footprint. Reporting adds time after active testing ends, since findings are manually verified and written up. If you have a hard deadline such as a customer review, tell us early and we will scope to fit it.

Will testing disrupt our production systems?

No — avoiding disruption is part of how we scope. We agree rules of engagement with you in writing before testing: which systems are in scope, which techniques are excluded, testing windows, and an escalation contact. Where a test carries genuine risk, such as denial-of-service or destructive payloads, we exclude it or run it against a staging environment. Many clients prefer testing against a production-equivalent staging environment for exactly this reason.

What is the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test?

A vulnerability assessment enumerates weaknesses broadly using automated scanning; a penetration test manually attempts to exploit them the way an attacker would. Assessment tells you what might be wrong, testing tells you what an attacker could actually do with it. Scanners miss business-logic flaws, chained exploits, and access-control errors entirely. VAPT combines both, so you get breadth of coverage plus verified, exploitable findings rather than an unfiltered scanner dump.
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Know what an attacker would find first.

Get a fixed-scope VAPT quote and a prioritised, CVSS-rated report with reproduction steps your engineers can act on immediately.

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