Penetration Testing Services
We Provide DAST Penetration Testing For Apps and Web Apps. UK Penetration Testing Developers.
Penetration testing, or pen testing, is a critical security practice designed to identify, assess, and mitigate vulnerabilities in your digital infrastructure before attackers can exploit them. By simulating real-world cyber attacks under controlled conditions, Scorchsoft's penetration testing services reveal how a hacker might gain unauthorised access to your systems, data, or applications. This proactive approach is essential for maintaining robust security in an increasingly digital world.
At Scorchsoft, our penetration testing process is thorough and methodical, aligning with industry best practices to ensure comprehensive coverage of your digital assets. Starting with a pre-assessment phase to understand your environment and objectives, we then move to the testing phase, where our certified experts employ a variety of techniques to uncover vulnerabilities. The process concludes with a detailed report and debriefing session, offering actionable insights and recommendations for improvement.
The approach we follow is known in the industry as Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), a penetration test approach that involves running specialist security tools that attempt to find vulnerabilities and exploits in your system. Get a free quote to start the conversation.
How Our Penetration Testing Works
Understanding Your Security Posture
By assessing the effectiveness of your current security measures against potential threats, we offer valuable insights into how you can enhance your defences, reduce risk, and ensure that your business and customer data remain secure.
Running a penetration test allows you to find and fix security issues early, preventing them from reaching the live environment.
Example checks include:
- SQL injection
- Broken authentication
- Sensitive data exposure
- Broken access control
- Security misconfiguration
- Cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Insecure deserialization
- Components with known vulnerabilities
- Missing security headers
…and more.
The Benefits of Regular Pen Testing
Regular penetration testing is not just a best practice; it's a necessity in the fast-evolving landscape of cyber threats. It helps businesses stay ahead of potential security breaches by continuously identifying and addressing vulnerabilities. Regular testing also demonstrates to stakeholders and customers your commitment to security, building trust and confidence in your brand.
We can run one-off pen tests for you, such as at the start of a release, or we can build regular pen-testing into your post-project support and maintenance arrangement with us.
Vulnerability Assessment
Our penetration tests comprehensively assess your app for a wide range of vulnerabilities, from the most common to the most obscure. We look for issues like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), broken authentication, and insecure direct object references, among others. This thorough assessment ensures no stone is left unturned in securing your application against attackers.
We aim to simulate real-world attacks to provide an assessment of your app's vulnerabilities. This approach allows us not only to identify what could be exploited but also to gauge the potential impact of an attack on your business, helping you prioritise remediation efforts based on real-world risk scenarios.
Post-test Remediation
Our penetration testing services are designed to enhance your cybersecurity defences by providing a clear roadmap for remediation. Following a test, we offer detailed recommendations for fixing identified vulnerabilities, strengthening your security posture, and protecting your business from future attacks. Our goal is to ensure that your digital assets are fortified against evolving cyber threats.
For example, each vulnerability is assigned a priority and a possible course of action to remediate. We can then systematically address the issues identified to make your platform more robust.
Compliance and Regulatory Assurance
Penetration testing can also play a key role in ensuring compliance with industry regulations and standards. By identifying vulnerabilities and demonstrating a commitment to security, our services can help you meet regulatory requirements, avoid potential fines, and protect your reputation. Whether you're concerned about GDPR, PCI DSS, or other regulations, we can tailor our testing to meet your compliance needs.
Please be aware that the DAST penetration test we run is not CREST-certified. We have found the provision of that certification to be cost-prohibitive to run regularly for many of our customers. If you require a CREST pen test, please let us know and we can recommend a partner who can help.
Need help building your ideas?
If you're ready to take the next step in safeguarding your business, enhancing your cybersecurity defences, and ensuring compliance, Scorchsoft is here to help. We are expert app and portal developers based in the UK, with over 16 years' experience making rich, functionally complex apps and web apps. Contact us today, and let's discuss how we can support your cybersecurity and compliance efforts.
Experience Delivering
Security testing is one of many capabilities we build into apps and portals, alongside payments, single sign-on, cloud databases and systems integration. Explore the full list on our capabilities page.
Discover How Scorchsoft Can Help
We would love to hear about your project. Please contact us, and share your goals; we'll respond with our thoughts and a rough cost estimate. Scorchsoft is a UK-based team of web and mobile app developers and designers. We operate in-house from Birmingham, and our offices are located in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter.
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What Our Clients Say
Scorchsoft helped us take our idea for an app and make it a reality. Everything from the planning meeting to decide what we really needed to the project management and execution was great. It was delivered on time - early in fact - and on budget. Highly recommend.
Rebecca PalserDragonfly IntelligenceScorchsoft is a brilliant company with fantastic knowledge of the mobile app industry. From the project management to the development team, they have been the perfect candidate for our project, and we can't thank them enough!
Lance ChorltonGapped OnlineWe're really pleased with the work Scorchsoft has done in developing our web portal! They have been accurate with timelines and budget, delivering a solid product that allows us to monitor and manage patients remotely while they use our novel medical device at-home. The "plan - design - build" approach has worked well and saved us time in the long-run by catching requirements and issues early.
Daniel GreenSensTrainI'm really pleased with how my app came out, it was exactly what I was looking for. The team at Scorchsoft are great at what they do and made the whole process as simple and easy as possible. Being someone who is not very tech savvy the set up and back end operations were done in a great easy to use manner even for myself which makes using my app stress free. Thanks to all the team!
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James HancocksMarketing Manager, Flourish Education I can't believe how quickly we started to see results with this project. Scorchsoft provided us with graphic-designed mockups of how the app would look once built, and we were able to sell the product for use by our first customer before the product was finished. Since launching in March, we have secured a major television network as a client who now uses Image Approvals to manage the talent approval process for their productions.
Aimee SpinksMD, ImageApprovals.com
Need help building your ideas?
Tell us where you're headed and we'll come back with our thoughts, a realistic plan and a rough cost estimate. Scorchsoft is a UK-based team of app, portal and AI developers, working in-house from Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.