What is VAPT?
VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing) combines automated scanning with manual exploitation to find security weaknesses before attackers do. The two halves answer different questions — one finds what is weak, the other proves what is actually exploitable. Our guide to what a VAPT audit covers walks through scope, process and timeline in detail.
Vulnerability Assessment
Automated, broad coverage. Scans applications, networks and infrastructure against known CVE databases and misconfiguration patterns to produce a prioritised inventory of weaknesses. Fast and repeatable, but it cannot tell you which findings actually matter.
Penetration Testing
Manual, deep. Testers attempt real exploitation to validate impact — chaining vulnerabilities, bypassing authorization and reaching data a scanner would never touch. This is where business logic flaws surface, and it is what separates VAPT from a scan report.
Compliance Evidence
PCI DSS mandates penetration testing outright, and auditors routinely accept a VAPT report as evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001. A clean retest is usually the artefact customers and insurers ask to see.
Where VAPT Fits
VAPT is point-in-time, so it works as one layer rather than the whole programme. Teams pair it with continuous cloud security controls, shift-left checks from DevSecOps consulting, and pipeline scanning in our CI/CD consulting services.
Why VAPT Matters for Your Business
With cyber threats evolving constantly, organizations need proactive security measures. VAPT provides a comprehensive view of your security posture by identifying vulnerabilities, testing exploitability, and providing actionable remediation guidance. This helps prevent data breaches, financial losses, and reputational damage while ensuring compliance with security standards.
Identify Hidden Vulnerabilities
Discover security weaknesses that automated tools miss through expert manual testing and code analysis.
Prevent Data Breaches
Proactively find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them, protecting sensitive data and customer trust.
Ensure Compliance
Meet regulatory requirements like PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and other security standards.
Reduce Security Costs
Early detection and remediation of vulnerabilities is significantly cheaper than dealing with data breaches and their aftermath.
Our Comprehensive VAPT Services
Web Application Security Testing
Comprehensive testing of web applications covering OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities including SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, authentication bypass, session management flaws, and business logic vulnerabilities. We test both client-side and server-side security controls, examine API endpoints, and assess the entire application architecture for potential security weaknesses.
- OWASP Top 10 vulnerability assessment
- Authentication & authorization testing
- Input validation & injection attacks
- Session management analysis
- Business logic flaw testing
Mobile Application Security Testing
In-depth security assessment of iOS and Android applications following OWASP Mobile Top 10 guidelines. We analyze app binaries, examine insecure data storage, test API communication security, reverse engineer the app to identify hardcoded secrets, and assess overall mobile security posture including certificate pinning and root/jailbreak detection.
- OWASP Mobile Top 10 assessment
- Insecure data storage analysis
- Reverse engineering & code analysis
- API communication security
- Platform-specific vulnerability testing
API Security Testing
Specialized security testing for REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs focusing on authentication mechanisms, authorization controls, rate limiting, data validation, and API-specific vulnerabilities. We test for broken object level authorization (BOLA), mass assignment, injection flaws, and ensure APIs follow security best practices with proper error handling and logging.
- OWASP API Security Top 10
- Authentication & authorization flaws
- Rate limiting & resource exhaustion
- Data exposure & information disclosure
- Business logic vulnerabilities
Network Penetration Testing
Comprehensive internal and external network security assessments to identify misconfigurations, weak security controls, and potential entry points. We test firewall rules, segment isolation, active directory security, wireless networks, and attempt privilege escalation to assess the blast radius of potential breaches.
- External & internal network testing
- Firewall & IDS/IPS bypass techniques
- Wireless network security assessment
- Active Directory security testing
- Privilege escalation attempts
Cloud Security Assessment
Specialized security testing for cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP. We assess IAM configurations, storage bucket permissions, network security groups, container security, serverless function vulnerabilities, and ensure compliance with cloud security best practices and benchmarks like CIS.
- Cloud configuration review
- IAM & access control assessment
- Storage security & data exposure
- Container & Kubernetes security
- Serverless security testing
IoT Security Testing
Security assessment of IoT devices and ecosystems including firmware analysis, hardware security testing, wireless protocol security, and backend API security. We examine device authentication, update mechanisms, data encryption, and assess the overall IoT architecture for potential security risks.
- Firmware reverse engineering
- Hardware security analysis
- Wireless protocol testing
- Device authentication & encryption
- Backend & cloud integration security
