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Penetration Tests That Pass Audits and Win Customers
Manual, OSCP-certified penetration testing mapped to the OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 — delivered as a meticulous, signed report your auditors accept and your customers trust. Real testers finding real vulnerabilities, not a scanner's PDF export.
What Is a Penetration Test?
A penetration test is an authorized, simulated attack on your application or infrastructure, performed by security specialists who think and act like real adversaries. The goal is simple: find the vulnerabilities an attacker would exploit — before they do — and tell you exactly how to fix them.
Automated scanners catch the obvious. They miss broken access controls, business-logic flaws, chained exploits, and the authentication gaps that cause real breaches. Every Auditsuisse engagement is manual, hands-on testing by OSCP-certified engineers, structured around the OWASP Top 10 for web applications and the SANS/CWE Top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses.
You get one report that does two jobs: it satisfies the penetration-testing expectation of a SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA program, and it's clean and redistributable enough to hand directly to the enterprise customers and partners who ask "when was your last pen test?" Every report is reviewed and personally signed by the lead tester who ran the engagement.
What's Included
A Penetration Test Done Properly
Manual, Expert-Led Testing
Hands-on exploitation by OSCP-certified testers — not a scan with a logo. We chain findings the way an attacker would to show real, demonstrable impact.
OWASP & SANS Coverage
Full coverage of the OWASP Top 10 and SANS/CWE Top 25, the frameworks your auditors and security reviewers already recognize by name.
Detailed, Signed Report
Every finding documented with reproduction steps, evidence, CVSS severity, and remediation guidance — reviewed and signed by the engineer who found it.
Audit-Ready Deliverable
A report structured to satisfy SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA penetration-testing requirements on the first pass, with an attestation letter for your auditor.
Customer-Facing Summary
A clean executive summary you can redistribute to enterprise buyers during security reviews — proof of testing without exposing sensitive detail.
Free Remediation Retest
Fix the findings and we re-test them at no extra cost, so your final report shows issues resolved — not just discovered.
Our Process
From Scoping to Signed Report
Scope
We define targets, test type (black/grey/white-box), rules of engagement, and timing — fixed-fee, no surprises.
Test
Manual exploitation against OWASP and SANS categories, with safe handling of your production or staging environment.
Report
Each vulnerability written up with severity, evidence, business impact, and step-by-step remediation.
Retest
We verify your fixes and issue the final signed report plus auditor attestation letter.
The Methodology
What We Test, and How
Our testing follows industry-standard methodologies — the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) and the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide — and is benchmarked against the two frameworks your stakeholders trust most. Our engineers hold the credentials that signal real offensive capability, not box-checking.
OWASP Top 10
The definitive list of web application risks: broken access control, injection, authentication failures, security misconfiguration, server-side request forgery, and more. We test every category that applies to your stack.
SANS / CWE Top 25
The most dangerous software weaknesses, from memory and input-handling flaws to insecure design patterns — mapped to concrete, reproducible findings in your codebase and APIs.
Web Application Testing
Authentication, session management, authorization, business-logic abuse, and API security tested by hand against your live application — the flaws that automated tools routinely miss.
Manual vs. Automated
Scanners run first to clear the noise; our engineers then test by hand for the high-impact flaws automation cannot find. You pay for judgment, not tool output.
Is a Pen Test Right for You?
Who Needs Penetration Testing?
If you build software that handles other people's data, the question is rarely whether you need a penetration test — it's when you last had one and who performed it. A current, independent test has become a default expectation in enterprise procurement and a standing requirement of every mature security program.
Penetration testing is most commonly pursued by:
- SaaS companies — Enterprise procurement and security questionnaires routinely ask for a recent penetration test. Without one, deals stall in review.
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs — Auditors expect annual penetration testing as evidence supporting Security-criterion controls.
- Fintech and payment platforms — Financial data draws heightened regulatory and partner scrutiny, making independent testing a baseline.
- Healthcare IT vendors — Companies handling protected health information (PHI) test to manage breach risk alongside HIPAA safeguards.
- Teams post-funding or pre-launch — New features, integrations, and infrastructure expand the attack surface that adversaries probe first.
- Any team facing a customer security review — When a buyer asks "when was your last pen test?", a signed report ends the conversation in your favor.
"A scanner report and a real penetration test are not the same thing, and enterprise security teams know the difference instantly. When a customer asks for your latest pen test, you want to hand them something a human expert signed their name to — not a PDF a tool generated overnight."
— Sébastien Ruosch, CPA, Director of Auditsuisse Assurance
Investment
How Much Does a Penetration Test Cost?
Penetration testing costs depend on what you're testing and how deep the engagement goes. Understanding the factors that drive scope helps you budget accurately and avoid the open-ended billing that turns a security exercise into a surprise invoice.
Key Factors That Influence Penetration Testing Pricing
- Scope — The number of applications, APIs, and distinct user roles in scope is the largest driver of testing effort.
- Test type — Black-box (no prior knowledge), grey-box (limited access), and white-box (full access and source) engagements differ in depth and time.
- Environment complexity — Third-party integrations, complex authentication flows, and multi-tenant architectures expand the surface to test.
- Retesting needs — Verifying remediation and re-issuing a clean report is included, but additional cycles for large fix backlogs can extend the engagement.
- Compliance deadline — Engagements timed to an audit or a customer deadline are scheduled to land your signed report when you need it.
At Auditsuisse, we provide transparent, fixed-fee pricing based on a short scoping call. Our focused approach means you pay for experienced, OSCP-certified engineers who understand your stack — not a rotating bench of junior testers running someone else's checklist. Schedule a scoping call to get a detailed proposal.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a penetration test?
A penetration test is an authorized, simulated attack on your application or infrastructure, performed by security specialists who think and act like real adversaries. Unlike an automated vulnerability scan, a penetration test involves manual, hands-on exploitation to confirm which weaknesses are genuinely exploitable, chain them to demonstrate real impact, and document exactly how to fix them.
Do I need a penetration test for SOC 2?
Penetration testing is not strictly mandated by the SOC 2 framework, but auditors routinely expect an annual penetration test as evidence supporting the Security (Common Criteria) controls, and most enterprise buyers ask for a recent report during procurement. A current, independent penetration test strengthens your SOC 2 and removes a common point of friction in customer security reviews.
What is the difference between a vulnerability scan and a penetration test?
A vulnerability scan is an automated tool that flags known issues and produces a list of potential weaknesses, often with false positives. A penetration test is performed by expert humans who manually validate findings, exploit and chain vulnerabilities to prove real-world impact, and uncover business-logic and access-control flaws that scanners cannot detect. We run scanners to clear the noise, then test by hand for the high-impact issues that actually cause breaches.
What frameworks do you test against?
Our engagements are benchmarked against the OWASP Top 10 for web application risks and the SANS/CWE Top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses, following established methodologies including the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) and the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG).
Can I share the penetration test report with my customers?
Yes. Every engagement includes a clean, redistributable executive summary you can hand directly to enterprise customers and partners during security reviews — proof that testing was performed without exposing sensitive technical detail — alongside a full technical report for your engineering and security teams.
Do you re-test after we fix the issues?
Yes. Remediation retesting is included. Once your team addresses the findings, we verify the fixes and issue a final signed report showing issues as resolved — not merely discovered — so the report you share demonstrates a closed loop.
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