Web Application Penetration Testing
Test authentication, authorization, session management, input handling, application logic, sensitive data exposure, privilege boundaries, and exploitable application behavior.
HUMAN-LED PENETRATION TESTING
Find what attackers can exploit before they do.
Test applications, APIs, mobile, cloud, infrastructure, identity, and critical business workflows against realistic attack paths with human-led offensive security testing.
Web Applications · APIs · Mobile · Cloud · Infrastructure · Identity · Business Logic
- Application & API
- Identity & access
- Business workflow
- Critical functionality
Illustrative relationships. Testing follows the agreed authorized scope.
FULL-STACK TESTING
Test the attack surface, not just the endpoint.
Modern attacks rarely stay inside one technical layer. CyberCile evaluates individual systems and the attack paths that connect them.
API Penetration Testing
Test REST, GraphQL, and other application interfaces for authorization failures, object-level access issues, authentication weaknesses, excessive data exposure, business logic abuse, and other exploitable API conditions.
Mobile Application Testing
Assess mobile applications and supporting backend services for insecure data handling, authentication weaknesses, API exposure, authorization issues, application logic flaws, and other security risks.
Cloud Security Testing
Evaluate cloud-hosted attack surfaces, exposed services, identity and access paths, configurations, application infrastructure, and security conditions that could enable unauthorized access or lateral movement.
External & Internal Infrastructure Testing
Assess exposed services, hosts, network-accessible systems, configurations, trust relationships, and attack paths that could provide an attacker with an initial foothold or expanded access.
Identity & Access Testing
Test authentication, authorization, account recovery, session handling, privileged access, identity boundaries, and other paths attackers may use to gain or expand access.
Business Logic Testing
Challenge workflows and application behavior for abuse cases that scanners cannot reliably identify, including unauthorized actions, workflow manipulation, privilege abuse, and control bypasses.
BEYOND AUTOMATED SCANNING
A scanner finds indicators. An attacker looks for a path.
Automated tools are useful for identifying known patterns and potential weaknesses.
Penetration testing goes further.
CyberCile security testers investigate how weaknesses interact, whether controls can be bypassed, how privileges can be expanded, and what an attacker could realistically accomplish.
AUTOMATED TESTING MAY IDENTIFY
- Known vulnerability patterns
- Misconfigurations
- Exposed services
- Common application weaknesses
- Potential security conditions
HUMAN-LED TESTING INVESTIGATES
- Can it actually be exploited?
- Can multiple weaknesses be chained?
- Can authorization be bypassed?
- Can privileges be expanded?
- Can a business workflow be abused?
- Can the attacker reach sensitive data or critical functionality?
- What is the realistic impact?
The objective is not to produce the longest vulnerability list.
It is to understand what can actually be exploited and what matters most.
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS EXPERTISE
Test the workflows where security affects the transaction.
For FinTech, PayTech, payment, and money-movement environments, CyberCile goes beyond generic application testing to evaluate security conditions across critical financial workflows.
PAYMENT FLOWS
Test transaction initiation, processing, state changes, validation, and security controls surrounding payment activity.
MONEY MOVEMENT
Evaluate workflows involving transfers, disbursements, withdrawals, deposits, remittance, and other movement of funds.
ACCOUNT & IDENTITY FLOWS
Challenge onboarding, authentication, account recovery, authorization, privileged actions, and account-management workflows.
TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION
Evaluate whether users, roles, services, or APIs can initiate or manipulate actions outside intended authorization boundaries.
BUSINESS LOGIC
Look for ways legitimate functionality could be manipulated to produce unintended financial, operational, or security outcomes.
CRITICAL INTEGRATIONS
Assess security boundaries between applications, APIs, payment services, identity providers, third parties, and supporting infrastructure.
Testing remains within the agreed authorized scope.
ADVERSARIAL TESTING
Think beyond individual vulnerabilities.
UNDERSTAND
Understand the application, architecture, workflows, trust boundaries, users, privileges, and critical functionality.
MAP
Map the attack surface, exposed functionality, APIs, identities, integrations, and potential attack paths.
TEST
Use human-led offensive testing to identify and validate exploitable security weaknesses.
CHAIN
Evaluate whether weaknesses can be combined to increase access, privileges, data exposure, or business impact.
PROVE
Capture reproducible technical evidence showing the security condition and realistic impact.
PRIORITIZE
Prioritize findings using technical severity, exploitability, attack path, affected functionality, sensitive data, privilege, and business impact.
HOW IT WORKS
From scope to verified results.
Scope the environment
Define systems, applications, APIs, testing objectives, authorization boundaries, testing windows, and relevant business-critical workflows.
Prepare for testing
Confirm rules of engagement, access requirements, test accounts, communication paths, and safety constraints.
Perform human-led testing
CyberCile security testers investigate the authorized attack surface using manual techniques supported by appropriate security tooling.
Validate and prioritize findings
Potential findings are validated and prioritized based on exploitability, impact, affected systems, privileges, and relevant business context.
Deliver findings and evidence
Your team receives actionable technical findings with evidence, impact, and remediation guidance.
Remediate
Engineering addresses identified security conditions using the technical findings and remediation guidance.
Verify
Eligible remediated findings are independently retested to determine whether the underlying security condition has been resolved.
DELIVERABLES
Evidence your technical team can act on and leadership can understand.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A concise view of material security findings, attack paths, business-relevant impact, and overall testing results.
TECHNICAL FINDINGS
Validated findings with reproduction details, technical evidence, affected systems, impact, and remediation guidance.
ATTACK-PATH CONTEXT
Where relevant, show how individual weaknesses connect and what an attacker could accomplish by chaining them.
RISK PRIORITIZATION
Prioritize findings based on exploitability, severity, access, affected functionality, sensitive information, and business impact.
REMEDIATION GUIDANCE
Provide clear technical direction describing the security outcome required to resolve each finding.
SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
Include appropriate technical evidence supporting validated findings and testing conclusions.
RETEST RESULTS
For eligible findings included in the engagement’s retest terms, document whether remediation was successfully verified.
DON’T STOP AT THE REPORT
Fix it. Then prove it is fixed.
A penetration test identifies the security condition. Remediation changes it. Verification determines whether the correction actually resolved it.
For eligible findings remediated within the agreed retest period, CyberCile independently retests the security condition and attempts reasonable bypasses where appropriate.
VERIFIED
The tested remediation resolved the identified security condition.
PARTIALLY FIXED
The remediation reduced the issue but did not fully resolve the security condition.
NOT FIXED
The original security condition remains exploitable or reproducible.
UNABLE TO VERIFY
The available environment, access, system state, or other constraint prevented reliable verification.
TESTING METHODOLOGY
Structured methodology. Human judgment.
CyberCile testing uses recognized security testing guidance where applicable while adapting techniques to the actual technology, attack surface, and engagement objectives.
- OWASP Web Security Testing Guide
- OWASP Top 10
- OWASP API Security Top 10
- OWASP ASVS where appropriate
- PTES
- NIST technical security testing guidance where appropriate
- MITRE ATT&CK where relevant to adversary behavior and attack paths
WHEN TO TEST
Test before security becomes the blocker.
BEFORE LAUNCH
Test critical applications, APIs, and workflows before they reach customers.
AFTER MAJOR CHANGES
Retest when significant architecture, authentication, authorization, payment, infrastructure, or application changes alter the attack surface.
BEFORE A BANK OR CUSTOMER REVIEW
Generate current technical security evidence before a financial partner or enterprise customer evaluates your environment.
BEFORE AN AUDIT OR COMPLIANCE MILESTONE
Identify exploitable technical weaknesses that could undermine security requirements or supporting evidence.
AFTER A SECURITY INCIDENT
Where appropriate and separately scoped, test relevant systems and controls after remediation to identify remaining exploitable paths.
PERIODICALLY
Use recurring testing when applications, APIs, infrastructure, and attack surfaces change frequently.
NEED MORE THAN ONE PENTEST?
Keep testing as your systems change.
If your team has multiple applications, APIs, frequent releases, open findings, or an upcoming security milestone, CyberCile Complete Security Assurance provides a focused 90-day engagement with unlimited eligible application and API testing, remediation support, independent verification, and security evidence.
Penetration Testing
Best when the customer needs a defined assessment of a specific authorized scope.
90-Day Complete Security Assurance
Best when the customer needs repeated application/API testing plus remediation and verification support over a focused period.
Frequently asked questions
What types of penetration testing does CyberCile perform?
CyberCile can perform authorized testing across web applications, APIs, mobile applications, cloud-hosted environments, infrastructure, identity and access controls, and critical business workflows. Exact coverage depends on the agreed scope.
Is this automated vulnerability scanning?
No. CyberCile may use security tools to support testing, but penetration testing is human-led. Security testers manually investigate potential weaknesses, attack paths, authorization boundaries, business logic, exploitability, and realistic impact.
Do you test APIs?
Yes. API testing can include authentication, authorization, object-level access, data exposure, business logic, input handling, privilege boundaries, and other exploitable API conditions.
Can you test payment and financial workflows?
Yes, when included in the authorized scope. CyberCile can evaluate payment, transaction, money-movement, account, authorization, and related business workflows for exploitable security weaknesses.
Do you provide a report?
Yes. Deliverables can include an executive summary, validated technical findings, supporting evidence, attack-path context where relevant, risk prioritization, and remediation guidance.
Do you retest findings after remediation?
Eligible findings remediated within the engagement's agreed retest terms can be independently retested to determine whether the identified security condition was resolved.
How long does a penetration test take?
Engagement duration depends on scope, complexity, environment, testing objectives, and access requirements. CyberCile confirms the expected testing and reporting timeline during scoping.
Can CyberCile perform testing for a bank, customer, or compliance requirement?
Yes. Penetration testing can support technical security requirements associated with bank reviews, enterprise customers, audits, and compliance programmes. CyberCile does not guarantee acceptance by a specific third party unless that party's requirements have been explicitly reviewed and confirmed.
What is the difference between a penetration test and the 90-Day Complete Security Assurance Program?
A penetration test evaluates a defined authorized scope during a specific engagement. Complete Security Assurance is designed for organizations that need ongoing application and API testing, remediation support, independent verification, and security evidence across a focused 90-day period.
Will testing affect production systems?
Testing approach and safety constraints are defined during scoping and documented in the rules of engagement. CyberCile coordinates testing to reduce unnecessary operational risk while preserving the effectiveness of the assessment.
BUILD SECURE
Find the weakness before an attacker does.
Put your applications, APIs, infrastructure, identity, and critical workflows through human-led adversarial testing.