Secure369 Solutions · Practitioner-Led

Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessment (VAPT)

Manual exploitation by practitioners — not automated scanning with a report attached.

Automated scanners find known vulnerabilities. Practitioners find the ones that actually matter — business logic flaws, chained exploits, authentication bypasses, and the attack paths a scanner cannot model. Secure369 VAPT is delivered by security engineers who write exploit code, not analysts who click "run scan" and export the output.

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The Problem

Why this matters now

Most VAPT reports are scanner output with a logo on the front page. They find the same CVEs your scanner already found, they miss the business logic vulnerabilities that cause real breaches, and they leave your team with a 200-item remediation list and no idea where to start. A real penetration test tells you what an attacker would actually do — and what to fix first.

Who this is for

Built for teams at this stage

Companies preparing for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or PCI-DSS — all require penetration testing evidence
Startups onboarding their first enterprise or regulated-sector customers
Development teams before a major product launch or new API release
Organisations that have never had a professional penetration test
Companies that received a VAPT report and want a second opinion
Financial services, healthcare, and SaaS companies handling sensitive data

What Secure369 examines

Every area we cover

✓Web application — OWASP Top 10, business logic flaws, authentication and authorisation

✓API security — REST, GraphQL, gRPC — broken object-level authorisation, injection, exposure

✓Mobile application — iOS and Android — data storage, network security, binary analysis

✓Network infrastructure — external perimeter, internal segmentation, firewall rules

✓Cloud configuration — AWS, Azure, GCP — misconfiguration, privilege escalation, exposed resources

✓Social engineering — phishing simulation, pretexting — where permitted

✓Thick client applications — desktop software, Electron apps

✓Source code review — manual review of security-critical components

Deliverables

What you receive

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Executive Summary

Business-language description of findings and risk — written for the board and your enterprise customers, not for the penetration tester.

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Technical Findings Report

Every finding documented with: description, evidence (screenshots, payloads, proof-of-concept), CVSS score, business impact, and step-by-step remediation guidance.

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Risk-Prioritised Remediation Roadmap

Findings ranked by real exploitability and business impact — not by CVSS score alone. We tell you what to fix first.

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Remediation Retest

After you fix the findings, we retest the critical and high severity issues and issue a remediation confirmation letter — accepted by most certification bodies.

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Certificate of Testing

Attestation letter confirming scope, methodology, date, and findings summary — for your enterprise customers and compliance auditors.

Indicative timeline

How the engagement runs

Scoping & Rules of Engagement

Day 1–3

Scope definition, test environment confirmation, emergency contact setup, methodology agreement, NDA.

Reconnaissance & Discovery

Day 4–7

Passive and active reconnaissance, asset enumeration, attack surface mapping.

Active Exploitation

Week 2–3

Manual testing — authentication, authorisation, injection, business logic, chaining findings into realistic attack paths.

Reporting & Debrief

Week 3–4

Draft report delivered, debrief call with technical team to walk through every finding.

Remediation & Retest

Within 60 days

Client remediates findings. We retest critical and high findings and issue confirmation letter.

Practitioner credentials

Who delivers this work

Every Secure369 engagement is led by a practitioner who has held the role, passed the audit, and operated the control — not a consultant reading from a framework document. Our team carries credentials built in the field, not only in a classroom.

OSCP — Offensive Security Certified Professional

CEH — Certified Ethical Hacker

GPEN — GIAC Penetration Tester

Application security practitioners with real CVE discovery history

PCI-DSS penetration testing methodology compliance

Experience across fintech, healthtech, SaaS, and logistics

Anonymised results

What clients have achieved

All examples are anonymised and presented with client permission. Specific figures are withheld where requested.

Authentication bypass found in Series B fintech — before the enterprise launch

Web application VAPT before a major banking integration. A chained IDOR and session fixation vulnerability would have allowed account takeover. Found and fixed before go-live.

API found exposing PII of 40,000 users — via a single unauthenticated endpoint

SaaS platform VAPT. A broken object-level authorisation vulnerability in a legacy API endpoint exposed user records. No scanner had flagged it in 2 years of automated testing.

SOC 2 penetration testing evidence accepted first time

Startup preparing for SOC 2 Type II. Our test report and remediation confirmation letter accepted by auditor without additional questions.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions

A scanner runs known signatures against known vulnerabilities. A penetration test involves a practitioner who understands application logic, chains multiple low-severity findings into a critical attack path, finds business logic vulnerabilities that have no CVE, and gives you a clear picture of what an actual attacker would achieve. We use automated tools as one input — not as the deliverable.

We agree the scope and rules of engagement in writing before any testing begins. Testing against production is only done with explicit agreement. Most clients prefer a staging environment for destructive tests and production-read-only access for configuration review.

OWASP Testing Guide, PTES (Penetration Testing Execution Standard), and OSSTMM as appropriate to scope. For PCI-DSS engagements, we follow the PCI DSS penetration testing guidance. Methodology is documented in the report.

A web application VAPT for a mid-size application typically runs 2–3 weeks from kick-off to report delivery. Scope, complexity, and environment access affect timing. We agree a schedule before starting.

Yes. We issue an attestation letter confirming scope, methodology, date, and findings summary. This is the document your enterprise customers and certification auditors will ask for.

Start the conversation

Know what an attacker would actually do to your application.

Book a scoping call with a Secure369 penetration tester. We will confirm whether testing is the right intervention for your current risk posture.

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