What is VAPT?

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) is a comprehensive cybersecurity practice designed to identify, validate, and mitigate security weaknesses across an organization’s digital assets — including applications, networks, APIs, and cloud environments.

VAPT combines two complementary approaches:

Vulnerability Assessment (VA):
A systematic and largely automated process for detecting and classifying vulnerabilities such as outdated components, insecure configurations, missing patches, or weak access controls. It answers “what vulnerabilities exist and how severe are they?”

Penetration Testing (PT):
A controlled simulation of real-world cyberattacks conducted by ethical hackers to actively exploit identified vulnerabilities. It answers “how can these weaknesses be weaponized, and what business impact could they cause?”

Together, VA and PT provide a complete, layered understanding of an organization’s security posture — combining broad detection with deep validation. This dual approach delivers far more than surface-level scanning; it measures true exploitability, impact, and resilience against modern threats.