Web applications
Authentication, access control between roles, injection, business logic and the admin surface people forget is internet-facing.
VAPT, penetration testing and red-team engagements for organisations that cannot afford uncertainty.
The three are sold interchangeably and are not interchangeable. This is the honest version.
| Attribute | VAPT | Penetration testing | Red teaming |
|---|---|---|---|
| The question | What is exposed across the estate? | Can this system be broken into? | Would we notice, and how fast? |
| Goal | Coverage | Depth | Stealth |
| Who knows | Your whole team | Your whole team | One or two trusted agents only |
| Typical duration | One to three weeks | One to two weeks per target | Three to eight weeks |
| Main output | Scored finding register | Attack paths and proof of impact | Timeline, detection gaps, response timings |
| Good first engagement | Yes, for a wide estate | Yes, for most organisations | No — needs monitoring in place first |
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One connected view of the systems, identities and human decisions an attacker can chain together.
Authentication, access control between roles, injection, business logic and the admin surface people forget is internet-facing.
REST and GraphQL authorisation, token handling, IAM boundaries, public exposure and whether your logging would have caught us.
Android and iOS — local storage, certificate handling, hardcoded secrets and the backend behind the app.
Assumed-breach positioning: credential exposure, privilege escalation and lateral movement to domain control.
Phishing, pretexting and social engineering, and whether a report actually reaches someone who acts on it.
Board briefings, employee sessions, phishing programmes, secure development training and tabletop exercises.
Identical deliverable set regardless of which engagement you commission.
Written for a reader who will not open the technical section. Risk position, the two or three things that matter, and what happens next.
Severity, CVSS vector, affected asset, evidence and reproduction steps precise enough for your engineer to work from.
Anything critical reaches you the day it is found, with enough detail to act on immediately.
Ordered by risk and effort, with the fixes that close several findings at once called out.
Findings verified as fixed and recorded, not marked closed on your word.
Confirms scope and dates for customers and auditors without disclosing the findings.
Four commitments that are in the contract, not just on the website.
Testing methodology is common. What differs is the regulatory pressure, the threat profile and what counts as a crown jewel.
Most incidents start with a person, not a zero-day. We run board briefings, employee awareness sessions, phishing simulations, secure development training and incident tabletop exercises.
Practical writing on what to buy, what to expect and what to push back on.
How to tell a report worth paying for from a rebranded scanner export, before you commission the work.
Read insightThe two are sold interchangeably and answer completely different questions. Buying the wrong one is expensive.
Read insightAnnual video modules and click-rate leaderboards do not change behaviour. What does.
Read insightA scoping call, an indicative timeline and a written proposal before anyone asks you for a budget.