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Have your systems attacked before someone else does it

A customer, a regulator or your own release board has asked for a current penetration test report. VAPT is a controlled attack on your applications, APIs, networks and devices, run with your permission and your credentials, ending in a ranked list of what the testers got through and a retest once you fix it.

You need VAPT if…

  • !Sign-off on the release is blocked until security has a clean test report in hand.
  • !A contract clause requires an independent penetration test at least once every twelve months.
  • !You have rewritten the payment flow and nobody has tested the new API yet.
  • !A supervisory inspection asked for the last test report and the evidence that findings were closed.
  • !Something your scanning tool never flagged turned up in production, and the customer found it first.
  • !Next month a new mobile app, portal or cloud migration gets exposed to the internet for the first time.
What it is

Testing that combines automated vulnerability scanning with manual exploitation. Testers work to agreed rules of engagement to find, chain and prove weaknesses in applications, APIs, networks, cloud configurations and devices, then rank them by what an attacker could actually do.

Who issues it

VAPT is an assessment service, not a certification. SIS delivers a technical findings report, an executive summary and, after remediation, a retest report and letter of attestation.

Validity

The report is point-in-time. Most contracts and regulators accept one no older than twelve months, and expect a fresh test after any major release.

Who gets asked for it

Anyone exposing an application, API or network to customers or the internet - banks, telecoms, SaaS providers, government portals, defence contractors and healthcare platforms.

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Where this certification is demanded

VAPT is applicable across 6 of the 25 industries SIS covers. The pages below set out the specific reason it comes up in each one.

Defence IndustryPublic SectorTelecommunication IndustryEducation IndustryInformation Technology IndustryBanking and Finance

What VAPT Actually Requires

The backbone an implementer has to build, in the order it usually gets built.

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Defined test scope

A written list of URLs, IP ranges, mobile builds, APIs and cloud accounts in scope, and an explicit statement of what is out of bounds.

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Rules of engagement

Agreed testing windows, escalation contacts, permitted techniques, and a decision on whether denial-of-service, social engineering and physical access are in or out.

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Test credentials and roles

Working accounts at each privilege level. Unauthenticated testing finds the front door; most serious findings sit behind a login, in what one role can do to another.

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A representative environment

Either production with agreed care, or staging built from the same code, configuration and data volumes. A stripped-down test box produces a report nobody can trust.

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Third-party authorisation

Written permission from cloud providers, hosting partners and any platform whose tenancy sits inside the scope, obtained before testing starts rather than halfway through it.

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Remediation ownership

Named owners for application, infrastructure and cloud findings, with a fix window agreed in advance. A retest only means something if someone was accountable for the fixes.

How VAPT Assessment Works

No black box. A defined, time-bound route from first call to report and retest.

Scoping & Rules of Engagement

We agree targets, credentials, testing windows, permitted techniques and escalation contacts, then sign an authorisation letter. Scope errors made here are what cause disputed findings later.

2–4 days

Reconnaissance & Vulnerability Assessment

Mapping the surface routinely turns up something nobody expected: a forgotten staging host answering on a public address, still running last year’s build of the login service.

2–4 days

Manual Exploitation

The real work. Testers chain findings, escalate privileges, attempt data access across tenants and roles, and prove impact rather than repeating a scanner’s severity rating back to you.

1–3 weeks by scope

Report, Fix Window & Retest

Findings arrive with reproduction steps, so a developer rebuilds the attack rather than arguing with a severity label. The fix window is agreed before the report lands, not after.

Report 3–5 days; retest within 90 days
Two to three weeks from kick-off to report is typical for a single web application, and where a go-live date is fixed the scope can be phased so the internet-facing path is tested first, with a full network and cloud scope running considerably longer.

Industries That Need VAPT

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Defence Industry
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Why it applies hereBefore a defence network, avionics interface or ground control application goes live, the customer wants proof it has been attacked under controlled conditions. VAPT delivers authenticated testing of applications, networks and devices against known and emerging exploits, with a prioritised remediation report and retest. Many defence contracts now require testing at each major release, not only at handover.Typical trigger: Pre-go-live security clearance
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Public Sector
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Why it applies herePublic-facing portals, payment gateways and departmental applications are probed continuously. VAPT provides authenticated testing before go-live and after major releases, with prioritised findings and retest evidence. Most government security guidelines require a clean test report before an application is permitted to go live.Typical trigger: Go-live security clearance
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Telecommunication Industry
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Why it applies hereCore network elements, OSS and BSS platforms, customer portals and APIs are continuously probed. VAPT provides authenticated testing before release and after major changes, with prioritised findings and retest evidence, and regulators and enterprise customers increasingly require current test reports.Typical trigger: Pre-release testing; regulatory expectation
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Education Industry
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Why it applies hereStudent portals, learning management systems, payment pages and research networks are actively targeted, often through weakly maintained departmental applications. VAPT provides authenticated testing with prioritised findings and retest evidence, and is increasingly required before connecting to national education or research networks.Typical trigger: Portal security; network connection
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Information Technology Industry
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Why it applies hereApplications, APIs, cloud configurations and networks need testing before release and after significant change. VAPT provides authenticated testing against current exploit techniques with prioritised findings and retest evidence, and customer contracts increasingly require a current test report as a condition of continued service.Typical trigger: Release cycles; customer contract clauses
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Banking and Finance
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Why it applies hereInternet banking, mobile apps, payment APIs and ATM networks are continuously probed, and regulators in many markets require periodic independent testing. VAPT provides authenticated testing with prioritised findings and retest evidence, and current reports are commonly requested during supervisory inspection.Typical trigger: Regulatory testing requirement

Commonly taken alongside

Cyber SecurityCyber security assessment & certificationISO/IEC 27001Information Security ManagementPCI DSSPayment Card Industry Data Security StandardSOC 2 Type 2Service Organization Control attestation
The test report is an input the other three all need, so running VAPT once a year and feeding the same evidence into ISO/IEC 27001 surveillance, PCI validation and the SOC 2 period saves commissioning the engagement three times.

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Three questions. The selector reads the same industry-to-standard mapping this whole site is built on, then shortlists what applies to you.

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Testers need credentials on day one, not week two

Day one, the testers ask for a low-privilege account and a high-privilege one. If those take a fortnight to arrive, the window closes with the interesting half of the application untested.

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What VAPT Changes for Your Business

Certification is not a certificate on the wall. It is a working system that pays for itself.

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Go-live gates cleared

Release boards, network owners and government security teams generally want a current independent test report before an application is allowed anywhere near production.

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Annual test evidence on file

Customer agreements increasingly require an annual test and evidence of remediation. A dated report and a retest letter close that clause without argument.

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Findings ranked by impact

Proven exploitation, not scanner severity. Developers get reproduction steps, and management gets an honest view of which three issues actually matter.

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Retest closes the loop

Fixes get verified rather than assumed. The retest report is the document auditors and customers ask for, because it proves the finding is actually gone.

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Developers learn the pattern

A debrief with the engineering team turns one broken authorisation check into a class of bug that stops recurring in the next release.

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Feeds PCI and 27001

Payment scheme validation and information security certification both require penetration testing evidence, and one well-scoped engagement can supply the report both assessments ask for.

Knowledge Base - Downloads

Practical documents prepared by our auditors. Fill the short form once and every download on the page unlocks.

CHECKLIST

Pre-test readiness and scoping checklist

Credentials, environments, third-party authorisations and contacts to have ready before testers start, so the window is not spent waiting.

PDF GUIDE

Black box, grey box and authenticated testing

What each approach finds and misses, and how to choose the one your customer or regulator will actually accept.

TEMPLATE

Findings tracker with retest evidence

Owner, severity, fix date and verification column, structured the way auditors and customers ask to see remediation closed out.

WHITEPAPER

Testing every release without stalling delivery

How teams shipping fortnightly fit meaningful security testing into the release cycle instead of one annual scramble before audit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers to what buyers ask before they commit to VAPT.

Is VAPT a certification?
No. VAPT is an assessment service. You receive a technical findings report, an executive summary and, once your team has remediated, a retest report and a letter confirming what was closed. There is no certificate with a three-year validity, because the result describes your systems on the dates the test ran. Certification of the surrounding controls is ISO/IEC 27001.
How often should we test?
Annually as a floor, because that is what most contracts and regulators ask for. The more useful rhythm is tied to change: a new application before go-live, a significant architecture or authentication change, a cloud migration, a payment flow rewrite. Testing once a year while shipping weekly leaves eleven months of untested code.
Will testing take our systems down?
It should not, and the rules of engagement exist to make sure. Denial-of-service techniques are excluded unless you specifically ask for them. Testing windows are agreed around your operations, escalation contacts are named before the first packet, and testers stop and call if something behaves unexpectedly. Where risk is genuinely high, testing runs against a matched staging environment.
Do you need credentials, or should the test be blind?
Both have a place, but unauthenticated testing alone tends to produce a thin report. The damaging findings usually sit behind a login: one user reading another’s records, a role that can call an administrative endpoint, a token that never expires. Give testers accounts at each privilege level and the report becomes far more useful.
What is included in the retest?
The retest covers the findings you have told us are fixed, within an agreed window after the original report. Testers reproduce the original attack path and confirm it is closed. You receive a retest report listing each finding and its verified status, and that is the document customers and assessors actually want to see.
Can you test cloud environments and mobile apps?
Yes, with two caveats. Cloud testing needs the provider’s authorisation and is scoped around what is yours to test - your configuration, identity setup and workloads, not the provider’s underlying platform. Mobile testing covers the compiled application, its local storage and the APIs behind it, which is usually where the real findings turn up.

Book testing before the go-live gate

A test squeezed into the last week before release surfaces the same problems and leaves no time to fix them. The window is the decision, not the price.

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