Find the holes before someone else does

A penetration test is a time-boxed, authorized attack. We agree the scope first: which applications, which environments, which accounts, and which techniques are off limits. That agreement, the rules of engagement, is signed before any traffic is sent. It protects you and us, and it is the reason we can test production safely when that is what you need.

Testing then runs in phases. We map the attack surface, test authentication and access control, probe for injection and logic flaws, and try to chain small issues into a larger one. Tools find the routine problems quickly. The time that matters is spent by a person reading how your application behaves and asking what it should not allow, such as one customer reading another customer's invoice by changing a number in a request.

Most web and API tests take one to three weeks of testing depending on the size of the application and the number of user roles. We prefer a staging copy with realistic data, plus one short production check for configuration. You choose between black box (no inside information), grey box (test accounts for each role) and white box (source access). Grey box usually finds the most for the time spent.

Many Saudi buyers ask for testing because a regulation or a customer contract requires it. The Essential Cybersecurity Controls from the National Cybersecurity Authority expect organizations to test and review their security posture, including vulnerability management and penetration testing of externally exposed systems. We write the scope and the report so they can be used as evidence in an NCA ECC readiness effort, but a report is evidence for your own assessment, not an approval from anyone.

Financial institutions working under SAMA frameworks, and companies serving them, are usually asked for annual independent testing and proof that high-risk findings were fixed. Government and semi-government buyers ask the same in procurement. We structure the report with an executive summary in Arabic and English, so a non-technical board member or a compliance officer can read it without a translator.

Hosting location matters too. Test data, screenshots and reports can contain personal data covered by the Personal Data Protection Law. We keep working files in the Kingdom when you ask, share them through your own channel, and delete them on an agreed date. Tell us early if your system holds health, financial or children's data, because we will plan the test around it.

Do not test everything once. Test what carries risk. A public payment flow, an API used by partners, an admin console and a mobile app that stores tokens deserve deep attention. A static marketing site does not. We help you rank your systems by what an attacker would gain, and we price depth to match.

Timing matters as much as scope. The cheapest moment to find a flaw is before launch, when a fix is a code change. The most expensive is after a customer or a regulator finds it. A sensible rhythm is one full test before major launches, one a year for critical systems, and a smaller targeted test after any big change to authentication, payments or hosting.

Testing is also not a replacement for secure development. If the same classes of flaw keep appearing, the fix is upstream: code review, dependency checks and security tests in the pipeline. Our Secure SDLC service is built for exactly that, and we are glad to hand the pattern from a test report straight into it.