Test like an
attacker would.
Real security testing goes beyond automated scans. We probe your systems the way a determined adversary would.
Penetration Testing
Manual, goal driven testing of your apps, APIs, and networks, chaining real vulnerabilities, not just flagging scanner output.
Web & API Security
OWASP Top 10 and API Top 10 coverage: injection, auth flaws, broken access control, SSRF, and business logic abuse.
Cloud & Infra Review
Configuration audits across AWS and Azure, IAM, exposed storage, network segmentation, and secrets hygiene.
Vulnerability Assessment
Authenticated scanning and triage that separates real, exploitable risk from the noise of raw scanner reports.
Social Engineering
Phishing simulations and access tests that measure the human layer most breaches actually exploit.
Clear Remediation
Prioritized findings with proof of concept, business impact, and concrete fixes, plus a free retest once you have patched.
Five situations, one job: prove what an attacker could actually do.
Almost nobody books a penetration test on a calm Tuesday. There is usually an auditor, a stalled deal, a launch date, or a bad memory behind the request. Here is how we handle each one.
Compliance Driven Penetration Testing
Your SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or HIPAA audit needs pen test evidence, and it needs to be evidence your auditor accepts without follow up questions. We scope the test to your audit boundary, map findings to the relevant controls, and deliver a report with documented methodology, proof of exploitability, and retest confirmation. One engagement, zero supplemental evidence requests.
Enterprise Deal Security Reviews
A prospect's security team sent a questionnaire, and the deal is frozen until you produce a recent pen test report. This is the most time sensitive work we do, so we scope fast, test what their reviewers will actually scrutinize, and deliver a report written to be shared externally, with an executive summary their non technical stakeholders can read. Deals should die on price or fit, never on a missing PDF.
Pre-Launch Product Testing
The smartest time to find an access control flaw is before real customer data is behind it. We test new web and SaaS products in staging before go live, covering authentication, tenant isolation, payment flows, and the business logic that automated tools never find. Launch week should be about customers, not incident response.
Merger and Due Diligence Assessments
Buying a company means buying its vulnerabilities, its shadow IT, and every shortcut its developers ever took. We run technical security due diligence on acquisition targets: application testing, cloud configuration review, and an honest risk read you can price into the deal or put on the remediation clock.
AI and LLM Application Testing
Chatbots, copilots, and AI agents open attack surfaces that traditional pen tests never touch: prompt injection, jailbreaks that bypass guardrails, training data leakage, and agents tricked into misusing the permissions behind them. We test AI agents and LLM features against the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications and for teams handling European data; findings map cleanly into GDPR compliant AI requirements. If you shipped an AI feature this year, it has almost certainly never been tested this way.
A Report Is Not a Security Program.
A pen test is a snapshot. The findings age the moment your team ships the next release. When clients want the gap between annual tests covered, our managed security operations team watches the environment continuously, so the next test confirms what you already know instead of surprising you.
Most Critical Findings Are Access Control Flaws.
Broken access control has topped the OWASP list for years, and our findings match: the worst issues are usually someone seeing data they should not, not an exotic zero day. When a test surfaces identity and permission problems, the durable fix is architectural, which is exactly what our zero trust identity practice builds.
From scope to secured.
A structured engagement that gives you findings you can act on, and proof you have fixed them.
Scope & Rules
We agree targets, depth, and rules of engagement, so testing is thorough, safe, and authorized in writing.
Test & Exploit
We combine automated tooling with manual exploitation to find and safely confirm real, chainable vulnerabilities.
Report & Brief
You get a prioritized report with proofs of concept and a live debrief for both executives and engineers.
Remediate & Retest
We support your fixes and retest the findings to confirm they are genuinely closed, at no extra cost.
What a real pen test costs, and how to spot a fake one.
Pen test quotes for the same application can differ by five times, and the cheapest ones are usually not penetration tests at all. Here is how the market actually prices this work in 2026.
A standard web application test runs $5,000 to $15,000. API testing runs $5,000 to $20,000 depending on endpoints and auth complexity. A SOC 2 scoped engagement covering a SaaS app, its APIs, and cloud infrastructure typically runs $8,000 to $25,000, and the market average across all test types is around $18,000. Full red team exercises run $50,000 and up. Scope drives price: user roles, integrations, and business logic depth matter far more than company size. We quote fixed, after scoping, in writing.
Because one of them is not a penetration test. Quotes under roughly $3,000 for a web application are almost always automated scanner output with a new cover page. A genuine manual test takes a skilled human 40 to 80 hours to chain vulnerabilities, abuse business logic, and prove real impact, and that time cannot be bought for scanner prices. Before you sign with anyone, including us, ask one question: how many hours of this engagement are manual testing by a named human? A vendor that dodges that question has answered it.
A scoped web application test runs one to two weeks from kickoff to final report. Larger scopes covering multiple apps, APIs, and cloud infrastructure run three to four weeks. If an audit or a deal has you against a deadline, compressed timelines are possible, but the market charges 20 to 40 percent extra for rush work, so booking three weeks ahead of your audit window is the cheapest scheduling decision you can make.
Grey box is the right default for most companies. We test with partial knowledge and normal user credentials, which skips days of blind reconnaissance you would otherwise pay for and focuses hours on what matters: what an authenticated attacker or malicious insider can reach. Black box best simulates an outside attacker but spends budget on discovery. White box, with source code access, gives maximum depth for critical systems. SOC 2 auditors are generally best served by grey box, and we will match the method to what your evidence actually needs to show.
The honest total is bigger than the invoice. Plan for internal engineering time to fix findings, which typically costs around 30 percent of the test price in effort. Many vendors then charge another 15 percent to retest and confirm the fixes worked. We include the retest free, because a report full of open findings helps nobody, and your auditor needs closure evidence anyway. Budget annually, since every framework worth having expects testing at least once a year.
Yes, by design. Every report has two audiences and two layers: an executive summary with business impact and an overall risk rating your leadership and your customers' security teams can read, and technical findings with reproduction steps, proof of concept evidence, and concrete fixes for your engineers. We then brief both groups live, because a PDF nobody understands is a test nobody benefits from.
If a deadline is what brought you here, say so in the first message. Scoping takes one call, and the quote is fixed before any testing starts.
Questions about
Security Assessments & Pen Testing
A scan is automated and lists potential issues. A penetration test is human driven, we exploit and chain vulnerabilities to show real, demonstrated impact, then tell you what actually matters.
No. We agree rules of engagement up front, test carefully, and can work against staging or in low traffic windows. Safety and authorization are non negotiable.
At minimum annually, and after any major release or infrastructure change. Many clients run continuous or quarterly testing for customer facing and high risk systems.
Yes. Every finding comes with concrete remediation guidance, and we retest after you patch to confirm it is closed. We can also work directly with your engineers.
We map findings to OWASP, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 requirements, so the engagement supports your audit goals, see our Managed Security offering for ongoing coverage.
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Start building what works.
Book a free discovery call. We'll map your needs, scope the work, and give you an honest plan, timeline, cost, and trade offs included.
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