Penetration Testing Services

Penetration testing, commonly known as a pentest, is a controlled simulation of real-world attacks conducted by both internal and external threat actors. The primary goal is to identify vulnerabilities within an organization's security infrastructure and assess the potential impact of these weaknesses on critical business processes.

By mimicking the tactics used by actual attackers, penetration testing provides valuable insights into risks, enabling organizations to strengthen their defenses against future threats.

Why Should You Consider Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS)?

Cybersecurity penetration testing services allow your company to identify and address critical vulnerabilities that could jeopardize your core business assets.

In these scenarios, penetration testing is crucial in identifying security gaps before attackers can exploit them. The potential consequences of such an attack may involve the theft of confidential data, the misuse of server resources, or the infiltration of the company's internal network by leveraging the vulnerable application as an entry point.

Startup

Startups are often targets for cyberattacks due to their rapid growth and limited resources, which lead to security vulnerabilities. Pentesting helps identify these weaknesses early, builds customer trust, and promotes a security-focused culture.

Midsize company

Midsized companies often focus heavily on growing their operations, meaning that any major infrastructure changes call for security testing services to ensure everything remains protected.

Enterprise

Large enterprises often implement penetration testing programs to prevent significant financial and reputational damage from a data breach, which can be devastating or even catastrophic for a business.

Our Approach to Penetration Testing

Penetration testing is intended to evaluate how well your security teams are performing. The goal is to uncover potential vulnerabilities that could result in data leaks or unauthorized access to sensitive information by malicious actors. Our penetration testing efforts are typically grouped into one of the following categories:

Black Box Penetration Testing

This approach involves a security assessment technique that simulates an attack from an external threat actor without prior knowledge of the system's internal workings. This approach evaluates the organization's security posture by attempting to gain unauthorized access to systems, applications, or networks as a real attacker would.

Grey Box Penetration Testing

As a hybrid of black box and white box techniques, grey box penetration testing evaluates a company's vulnerability to insider threats. This method simulates an attacker who possesses some understanding of the company's internal structure. It is typically less time-consuming and more cost-effective than black box testing.

White Box Penetration Testing

A white box test aims to enhance the identification of hidden vulnerabilities and improve detection rates. By performing a white box security assessment, testers can delve deeper into the target environment and examine the application's source code to uncover potential vulnerabilities.

Penetration Testing as a Service: Pricing

External Network Pentest

Exploit vulnerabilities in hosts accessible via the Internet

$2,000

Internal Network Pentest

Assess the extent of your vulnerability to insider attacks

$6,000

Web Application Pentest

Check whether any sensitive data is under risk of leakage

$5,000

Mobile Application Pentest

Detect security holes in your mobile app

$5,000

DataArt’s Expertise in Penetration Testing

Choose DataArt for your penetration testing needs and experience unmatched expertise. With over 300 successful penetration tests conducted for businesses of all sizes across the UK, Europe, and the USA, we are dedicated to being a leading software security provider.

Our focus on manual testing, alongside automated checks, ensures we uncover issues that others might miss, including compliance reporting-related issues. Our rapid scheduling and execution guarantee that your security requirements are met promptly and efficiently.

Our Certifications

eWPTX

Our penetration testers hold eWPTX certifications, showcasing their advanced expertise in web application security.

OSCP

DataArt’s pentest professionals obtained OSCP certificate assuring their qualification level.

CREST

DataArt’s testers are CREST-registered to help raise the global security standards.

Benefits of Cybersecurity Penetration Testing

Identify vulnerabilities

Explore existing weaknesses in your system, application configurations, and network infrastructure, including staff actions that may lead to data breaches.

Avoid business disruptions

Ensuring continuous business operations requires consistent network availability and secure resource access, as disruptions can significantly impact your business. Penetration testing helps identify potential security threats, enabling you to proactively address vulnerabilities and prevent unexpected downtime, ensuring uninterrupted access and operational continuity.

Achieve compliance with the standards

Businesses in highly regulated industries, such as healthcare and financial services, need to invest in security and seek assistance from security researchers who can provide web penetration testing services. This guidance helps ensure compliance with existing regulations.

Save costs and brand reputation

Penetration testing is a cost-effective method for identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities before a data breach occurs. It can save the company from significant expenses related to financial losses, legal liabilities, and damage to its reputation.

Strengthen client trust

To build confidence among your clients and stakeholders, you need to demonstrate a commitment to proactive security measures. Penetration testing reassures them that their sensitive data and systems are safeguarded, much like an external audit validates compliance and security standards.

Five Stages of Penetration Testing

Phases Of Penetration Testing

Planning. The initial phase focuses on defining and documenting the objectives, scope, and rules of engagement for the security testing, ensuring alignment between the testing team and the client.
Reconnaissance. During the information-gathering phase, DataArt analyzes critical data about the targeted application, business logic, and underlying infrastructure to understand the attack surface.
Discovering vulnerabilities. A comprehensive vulnerability assessment is performed to detect any security flaws or weaknesses. This involves application security testing, Red teaming exercises, validation, and in-depth research to uncover potential risks.
Exploitation. In the final stage of the active testing phase, the DataArt security team attempts to exploit the discovered vulnerabilities to assess the actual risk level, demonstrating the system's real-world impact and minimizing false positives.
Reporting. After testing, DataArt provides a detailed report that includes findings, recommended remediation steps, and a prioritization guide for addressing the identified vulnerabilities. The team works closely with the client to review the results and helps establish an ongoing security testing strategy.

Our Penetration Testing Expertise for Your Security Posture

We provide penetration testing services, comprehensively assessing your security posture through realistic simulations of real-world attacks.

With extensive experience in penetration testing, DataArt is well-equipped to carry out all essential security assessment activities:

Manual & Automated Security Code Reviews

Perform recurrent and ad hoc security code reviews
Assist the team with the remediation of identified issues
Integrate automated code analysis tools into the development and CI/CD process

Web Application Penetration Testing

Perform independent IT penetration testing using an industry-recognized web application assessment methodology
Prepare and provide a formal penetration report for web applications
Communicate the identified issues about web security to the key stakeholders

Mobile Application Security Testing

Manual and automated scans for assessment of mobile applications (iOS and Android)
Open-source intelligence and checking and architecture analysis
Discovery of such issues as insufficient cryptography, insecure data storage, communication and authentication

Hosting Environment Hardening/Security Maintenance

Create a definition of recommended security configuration
Ensure that software and users are compliant with the principle of least privilege
Apply network and host security baseline
Provision security monitoring and alerting

Cloud Penetration Testing

Gather information and assess security controls in the cloud environment
Perform manual and automated assessment of cloud security posture
Produce and discuss an audit report and further pen testing services

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LLM Penetration Testing

Utilize an experienced offensive security team to simulate adversarial attacks on the GenAI and LLM, employing a recognized methodology specific to AI-powered applications
Prepare and deliver a detailed formal pentest report for AI-powered applications
Effectively communicate any identified security concerns to the principal stakeholders

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Our Clients

We've completed 3000+ pentest projects for clients ranging from high-tech startups to Fortune 1000 financial organizations, healthcare entities, travel and hospitality companies, technology groups, and others. As a penetration testing provider, DataArt has a dedicated Security Lab and a team of security experts that offer advisory services and help development teams implement the best security practices.

Our customers often request vulnerability management and pentesting services because they are either in a high-risk position or need to provide testing results for security assurance purposes (e.g., for a client's request during the procurement/sign-off process or for internal security requirements).

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FAQ

What is Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS)?

Penetration testing as a service is a delivery platform that allows for a regular procurement of pentesting services. Thanks to PTaaS, clients can run pentests at affordable price even every single day to assure there are no code vulnerabilities.

Do I need a penetration test if my company already runs vulnerability scans?

Penetration tests and vulnerability mapping are both important when it comes to the proper security of your business. These two activities can complement each other.

Vulnerability assessment and scanning searches for security gaps within your applications/network. A thorough scan ensures any new vulnerabilities are found and patched, enabling you to focus on dealing with more serious ones quickly. However, vulnerability scans do have their limitations; they sometimes miss vital red flags and they can give false positive results.

A penetration test is more sophisticated and mimics a ‘real life’ attacker, attempting to break your system or network. Penetration testing mostly focuses on advanced cases, revealing and exploiting any types of security gaps that have not yet been discovered by the IT security staff.

Does your penetration testing company require access to source code?

It is not mandatory to have access to source code when performing a pentest. In most cases, clients can share with us some information on the organizations and their information systems. This gives DataArt security experts additional insight, so we will be able to tailor our attack vectors to testing your system’s security controls.

Is pentesting disruptive to our environment? Will our systems go down?

DataArt's penetration tests are thoroughly planned and coordinated to avoid disruption. Still, we recommend clients target a test environment or backup data to minimize potential risks and make the incident response more effective.

How often should a penetration test be done?

Penetration testing services should be used regularly, at least once a year, for regular vulnerability assessments and prevention of new attack scenarios, as well as after introducing major changes to the system.

Dmitry established DataArt's Security Competence, a team of security experts that consult clients and help DataArt’s development teams implement best security practices.

Dmitry Vyrostkov

Head of Cybersecurity Services / London, UK

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