Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing (VAPT)

VAPT combines two services in one engagement: a broad check for known weaknesses, and a hands-on attempt by experts to exploit them. At the end you know what is wrong across your systems, and which of those problems an attacker could genuinely use. That second part is what lets you spend your remediation budget on the right things.

What is VAPT?

It helps to think of the two halves separately.

The vulnerability assessment (VA) is the broad sweep. Automated tools, checked by our analysts, look across your applications, networks, APIs and cloud for missing updates, unsafe settings, outdated components and weak controls. It answers three practical questions. What weaknesses exist? How serious are they? What should we fix first?

The penetration test (PT) is the deep dive. Experienced testers pick the most promising weaknesses and try to break in, chaining small issues together the way a real attacker would. It tells you what someone could actually do with those weaknesses, which data and systems are at risk, and whether your team would notice.

When VAPT makes sense

Choose VAPT when you need breadth and depth at the same time. Typical triggers are a product launch or funding round, an upcoming ISO/IEC 27001:2022 or SOC 2 audit, PCI DSS validation, or a regulator or major customer asking for evidence of independent testing. If you only need the hands-on attack, see our penetration testing service.

How the engagement runs

We agree the systems in scope, the testing windows and the rules of engagement, and sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before any access is shared. The team then maps your assets and runs authenticated scans, meaning the tools log in and look inside each system.

Analysts check the scan results by hand and remove false alarms. Testers take the highest-risk findings and possible attack paths and exploit them manually, within the agreed limits. Findings are rated and written up with business context.

For the technical reader: testing follows PTES, NIST SP 800-115 and OWASP WSTG, is verified against OWASP ASVS, and is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Severity uses CVSS (the standard 0 to 10 scale) and the OWASP Risk Rating. The work is delivered by a CREST Member company.

At the end of the engagement

You receive a short risk brief for the board and a detailed technical report. The technical report gives proof for each finding, its severity scores and a prioritized fix list. Findings are mapped to ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2, PCI DSS 4.0, GDPR and NIST CSF, so the same work supports your audits. The retest is included in the price and documents which risks have been closed.

Request a VAPT proposal to scope your assessment.