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Secure Your Digital Assets with Expert VAPT Services

Strengthen your security posture with comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing designed to identify, validate, and eliminate risks before attackers can exploit them.

What Is VAPT
(Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing)?

VAPT is a comprehensive security evaluation process that combines automated vulnerability scanning with manual penetration testing to identify, analyze, and validate security weaknesses across applications, APIs, networks, and cloud environments.

While a vulnerability assessment focuses on detecting potential flaws, penetration testing goes a step further by safely exploiting those weaknesses to understand their real impact. Together, VAPT provides a complete and accurate picture of your security posture and the risks that could lead to data breaches, system compromise, or service disruption.

VAPT is essential for companies building cloud-native applications, operating in regulated industries, or undergoing rapid digital growth.

Why VAPT Matters for Your Business

As cyber threats grow more advanced, organizations must adopt proactive security practices. VAPT provides a complete understanding of your risk exposure by identifying vulnerabilities, validating exploitability, and delivering actionable remediation insights. This helps prevent breaches, reduce operational risks, and maintain compliance with industry standards.

Identify Critical Vulnerabilities

Reveal security weaknesses that automated scanners miss through expert manual testing, configuration reviews, and real-world attack simulation.

Prevent Data Breaches

Detect and fix exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers discover them, protecting sensitive data, business continuity, and customer trust.

Strengthen Compliance

Meet mandatory security requirements for ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and other regulatory frameworks with verified security testing.

Reduce Long-Term Security Costs

Mitigate risks early in the development or deployment lifecycle avoiding the high financial and reputational impact of breaches and emergency incident response.

Our Comprehensive VAPT Services

Comprehensive security testing for web applications aligned with OWASP Top 10. We uncover vulnerabilities that impact authentication, authorization, input handling, business logic, and data exposure. Our experts validate both client-side and server-side security controls, assess API integrations, and analyze the complete application architecture for weaknesses.

In-depth security analysis for iOS and Android apps following OWASP Mobile Top 10 standards. We inspect app binaries, identify insecure data storage, analyze API communication, test certificate pinning, and evaluate runtime behaviors for jailbreak/root detection and reverse engineering risks.

Specialized assessment for REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs. We test authentication, authorization, input validation, rate limiting, error handling, and API-specific vulnerabilities including business logic flaws and BOLA attacks.

Internal and external network security assessments to detect misconfigurations, weak controls, and exploitable entry points. Our experts test firewall rules, segmentation, wireless networks, directory services, and perform privilege escalation attempts to evaluate breach impact.

Cloud-focused security testing for AWS, Azure, and GCP. We review IAM permissions, network exposure, storage misconfigurations, containerized workloads, serverless functions, and overall cloud security posture aligned with CIS benchmarks and cloud best practices.

Holistic testing of IoT devices, firmware, communication protocols, and backend APIs. We identify security flaws across hardware components, authentication mechanisms, update processes, and cloud integrations.

Why Companies Trust SquareOps for VAPT Services?

With certified security experts, deep industry experience, and a proven track record of securing cloud-native applications, SquareOps delivers VAPT services that go far beyond automated scanning. Our cybersecurity specialists combine advanced tools with expert-led manual testing to uncover high-impact vulnerabilities that automated scanners miss, ensuring stronger protection and actionable security improvements.

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Certified & Highly Skilled Security Experts

Our penetration testers hold globally recognized certifications including OSCP, CEH, GPEN, Security+, AWS Security Specialty, and more. They bring real-world offensive security expertise and continuously research emerging attack techniques ensuring you get the highest standard of security testing.

Advanced & Comprehensive Testing Methodology

We follow industry-leading standards like OWASP, PTES, OSSTM, NIST, and incorporate our own proprietary testing techniques. From automated scanning to in-depth manual exploitation, we ensure full coverage of application, API, cloud, and network attack surfaces leaving no vulnerability overlooked.

Actionable, Audit-Ready Remediation Reports

Our reports include: Executive summaries for leadership, Detailed technical findings, Proof-of-concept exploits, Impact analysis, Prioritized risk ratings, and Step-by-step remediation guidance

Free Retesting & Continuous Security Support

After your team implements fixes, we provide complimentary retesting to ensure all vulnerabilities are fully resolved. Additionally, we offer continuous VAPT and security advisory support to keep your applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure secure as they evolve.

Our VAPT Process

We begin by understanding your applications, infrastructure, business workflows, and security objectives. This helps us define the scope, testing boundaries, and rules of engagement ensuring a targeted and efficient VAPT engagement.

We gather in-depth information about your systems, technologies, and potential attack surfaces using a mix of passive and active reconnaissance methods. This step helps identify assets, entry points, and vulnerabilities that attackers may target.

Our team performs automated and manual scans to detect security weaknesses, misconfigurations, outdated components, and common vulnerabilities across your applications, APIs, networks, and cloud environments.

Certified penetration testers manually validate vulnerabilities, attempt safe exploitation, and confirm the real-world impact of security gaps. This ensures accurate findings while eliminating false positives.

If exploitation is successful, we assess potential damage such as data exposure, privilege escalation, lateral movement paths, and the blast radius to understand the true severity of each issue.

You receive a detailed, audit-ready report with Severity-based risk ratings, Proof-of-concept evidence, Business impact analysis and Step-by-step remediation instructions. Our team also provides guidance to help your developers, DevOps engineers, and security teams fix vulnerabilities effectively.

1. Scoping & Planning

We begin by understanding your applications, infrastructure, business workflows, and security objectives. This helps us define the scope, testing boundaries, and rules of engagement ensuring a targeted and efficient VAPT engagement.

We gather in-depth information about your systems, technologies, and potential attack surfaces using a mix of passive and active reconnaissance methods. This step helps identify assets, entry points, and vulnerabilities that attackers may target.

Our team performs automated and manual scans to detect security weaknesses, misconfigurations, outdated components, and common vulnerabilities across your applications, APIs, networks, and cloud environments.

Certified penetration testers manually validate vulnerabilities, attempt safe exploitation, and confirm the real-world impact of security gaps. This ensures accurate findings while eliminating false positives.

If exploitation is successful, we assess potential damage such as data exposure, privilege escalation, lateral movement paths, and the blast radius to understand the true severity of each issue.

You receive a detailed, audit-ready report with:

  • Severity-based risk ratings
  • Proof-of-concept evidence
  • Business impact analysis
  • Step-by-step remediation instructions

Our team also provides guidance to help your developers, DevOps engineers, and security teams fix vulnerabilities effectively.

Compliance Standards We Support

PCI DSS

Security testing aligned with PCI DSS requirements, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, network segmentation validation, and protection of cardholder data environments.

HIPAA

Comprehensive security assessments for healthcare organizations handling PHI ensuring secure access controls, data protection, and HIPAA Security Rule compliance.

ISO 27001

Validation of security controls, risk management processes, and ISMS implementation to help organizations meet ISO 27001 certification and maintain ongoing compliance.

GDPR

Security testing designed to safeguard personal data, validate privacy controls, and support GDPR compliance through risk identification and mitigation.

SOC 2

Assessment of security, availability, confidentiality, and processing integrity controls to help service organizations meet SOC 2 audit readiness.

NIST

VAPT aligned with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and NIST SP 800-53/115 guidelines, ensuring strong technical controls and industry-standard security maturity.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between vulnerability assessment and penetration testing

A vulnerability assessment identifies weaknesses. Penetration testing attempts to exploit them to determine real impact.

How long does a VAPT engagement take?

Typical timelines range from one to four weeks depending on application size and infrastructure complexity.

What systems can be evaluated?

Applications, APIs, cloud platforms, networks, microservices, Kubernetes clusters, CI or CD pipelines and more.

Does VAPT support compliance requirements?

Yes. VAPT is a standard requirement for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and GDPR readiness.

How often should a company perform VAPT?

Security teams typically run VAPT at least once a year, but modern SaaS and cloud-native companies perform it every quarter or after major releases, infrastructure changes or newly added integrations.

Will VAPT affect my live application or production environment?

No. Testing is performed carefully using controlled methods.

For production systems, we coordinate test windows to avoid downtime and avoid executing destructive payloads unless explicitly approved.

Do you provide remediation support after the assessment?

Yes. SquareOps provides detailed remediation guidance, developer-focused fix recommendations and free retesting to ensure all vulnerabilities are properly resolved.

What type of report will I receive after VAPT?

You receive an audit-grade report with:

  • Executive summary for leadership
  • Technical details for developers
  • Reproduction steps
  • Evidence and screenshots
  • CVSS-based severity scoring
  • Recommended fixes
  • Prioritization roadmap

This report can be used for audits, compliance, investor due diligence and customer security reviews.

Do you test both cloud infrastructure and DevOps environments?

Yes. Our VAPT includes assessments for IAM configurations, cloud resources, container registries, Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, cloud networking, workloads and serverless functions.

What information do you need to start a VAPT engagement?

We typically require:

  • Application or API documentation
  • Test accounts or credentials
  • Architecture overview
  • Cloud access (least privilege)
  • List of assets or environments in scope
  • Compliance requirements, if any

Once shared, we finalize scope, timeline and begin testing.