Pen test vs. vulnerability scan: which do we need?

Scans are automated, frequent, and catch known issues; pen tests are human-led, deeper, and find logic flaws scanners cannot. Mature teams run both: continuous scanning plus a periodic manual assessment.

Can we share the report with customers and auditors?

Yes. You receive an executive summary suitable for customers and auditors plus a technical annex for your engineers. The evidence format maps to SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI expectations.

How do you prioritize findings when you find dozens of issues?

We score by CVSS plus business context. A medium-severity auth flaw on a non-core feature ranks lower than a low-severity data exposure on your user API. Risk ranking ensures your team fixes what matters most first.

What is a supply chain or dependency vulnerability?

It is a security flaw in third-party libraries you use. We scan your dependencies (npm, PyPI, Maven, etc.) continuously and notify you when updates are needed so you do not ship known-vulnerable code.

Do you test APIs differently from web UIs?

Yes. APIs require different attack vectors: header injection, path traversal, rate limiting evasion, and authentication bypass. We have specialized expertise in REST, GraphQL, and gRPC API security testing.

Quality Engineering & Assurance

Security, Vulnerability & Penetration Testing to Find Flaws First

Expert-led penetration testing and continuous vulnerability scanning, finding the flaws before attackers do. We combine manual exploitation techniques with automated pipeline scans to secure your APIs, user authentication, and data boundaries.

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Attack Yourself First

In an era of evolving cyber threats, secure software requires active defense testing. Automated scanners are excellent for catching known library vulnerabilities, but they fail to spot complex business-logic flaws, access control breaks, and privilege escalation vectors. Our certified penetration testers attack your systems from the inside, simulating real-world malicious actor strategies. We combine manual exploit chains with automated security scans in your deployment pipeline to identify vulnerabilities. This hybrid security testing approach ensures your APIs, authentication systems, and cloud databases are thoroughly hardened against data breaches before they can impact your operations.

The Old Way

Exposed Application

The Intelegencia Way

Hardened Application

Unvalidated Inputs

OWASP Top 10 Coverage

Broken Access Control

Verified Access Boundaries

Vulnerable Dependencies

Patched Dependency Chain

Leaked Secrets & Keys

Secrets Hygiene Enforced

Untested Auth Flows

Abuse-Case Tested Logic

Manual Penetration Testing

While automated scanners identify common security patterns, human intelligence is required to expose complex logic errors. Our penetration testers manually chain minor vulnerabilities into full exploit paths, revealing how access controls can be bypassed or customer data exposed, giving your engineering team clear instructions to fix logic flaws.

OWASP Top 10 Assessment

Authentication & Session Attacks

Business-Logic Abuse Cases

API & Mobile App Testing

Privilege Escalation Chains

Continuous Vulnerability Management

A standard penetration test is a single point-in-time snapshot, but codebases change on every commit. We integrate static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST) directly into your CI/CD pipeline, checking every build for insecure packages and leaked secrets, and providing engineers with clean, triaged remediation tickets.

SAST / DAST in CI

Dependency & Container Scanning

Secrets Detection

Prioritized Remediation Guidance

Fix Verification & Retesting

Threat Modeling & Remediation Roadmaps

Not all vulnerabilities pose the same level of real-world risk to your business operations. We build custom threat models to evaluate security findings based on exploitability, data value, and business impact. We deliver actionable playbooks so developers prioritize and deploy fixes to critical vulnerabilities first.

Threat Model Design

Risk-Based Prioritization

Remediation Playbooks

Fix Verification Protocols

Post-Incident Hardening

The Defense Stack

Security Units

Four attack vectors locked down: manual penetration testing by security experts, continuous scanning of third-party dependencies, secret credential detection, and audit-ready evidence reports for compliance frameworks and reviews.

Pen-Test Lab

Manual exploitation by experienced security testers.

Dependency Watch

Continuous scanning of your supply chain for CVEs.

Secrets Guard

Catching keys and credentials before they ship.

Evidence Pack

Audit-ready reports for SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI reviews.

Compliance & Audit Evidence

Meeting security standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA requires clear proof of system testing. We provide structured, audit-ready compliance reports documenting our testing methodology, exploit outcomes, and fix verifications, giving your compliance officers the exact evidence needed to pass audits smoothly.

Compliance Framework Mapping

Audit Report Generation

Evidence Documentation

Remediation Tracking

Continuous Attestation Support

The Assessment

Our Security Flow

Five phases to harden your application: defining scope, rules of engagement, and safe test boundaries, enumerating the attack surface and entry points, exploiting vulnerabilities with full impact evidence, delivering severity-ranked findings with remediation playbooks, and retesting to verify each fix.

Scope & Rules

Defining targets, test windows, and rules of engagement.

Recon & Mapping

Enumerating the attack surface and entry points.

Exploit & Verify

Demonstrating real impact, safely and with evidence.

Report & Remediate

Severity-ranked findings with concrete fix guidance.

Retest & Certify

Verifying every fix and issuing the final report.

Measured Performance. Proven Growth.

OWASP Coverage

Attack Surface

Critical Vulns

0 day

Time to Remediate

Frequently Asked Questions
About Security, Vulnerability & Penetration Testing

Here you will find answers to questions we get asked the most about our offerings.

No. Testing runs under agreed rules of engagement: scoped targets, safe exploitation techniques, and defined test windows. Destructive checks happen only in staging.