Why SpotDefence

Know where you’re exposed. Know what to fix.

Expert-led security assessments that turn technical findings into clear business decisions.

Uncover the risks
that matter

Identify weaknesses that could expose sensitive data, compromise accounts, or disrupt critical operations.

UNDERSTAND YOUR EXPOSURE

Focus your
remediation effort

Know what to fix first, with validated evidence, business context, and practical recommendations.

PRIORITISE WITH CONFIDENCE

Give stakeholders
a clear picture

Clear reporting for technical teams and business leaders, supporting remediation and security assurance.

MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS

Clarity for leaders. Direction for engineers.

Discuss Your Security Needs
Security Services

Built for modern cloud,
AI, and API attack surfaces.

Modular penetration testing services built for high-velocity cloud teams, AI applications and agents, distributed microservices, and regulated enterprise environments.

Web Application & API Penetration Testing

Offensive validation of SPAs, microservices, and API gateways. Uncover BOLA, mass assignment, SQLi, SSRF, and race conditions with deterministic PoC scripts.

OWASP API Top 10 Testing BOLA & BFLA Exploit PoCs JWT & OAuth Flow Tampering

Mobile Application Penetration Testing (Android/iOS)

Binary de-compilation, runtime hooking via Frida, insecure local data storage, and certificate pinning bypasses tested on real device farms.

Dynamic Frida Instrumentation Insecure Keychain & Keystore Client-Side Business Logic

Cloud Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Deep adversarial testing of AWS, GCP, Azure, and K8s clusters. Discover overly permissive IAM roles, container breakouts, and CI/CD secret exposure.

IAM Privilege Escalation K8s Container Breakout CIS Benchmark Audits

AI Application & Agent Security Testing

Can your AI assistant expose confidential data or take actions it shouldn’t? We test AI applications, retrieval pipelines and connected agents for exploitable weaknesses—and provide evidence your engineers can act on.

Prompt injection Data exposure Agent permissions

Automated + Manual Source Code Review

Line-by-line manual code audits with semantic queries in Go, Python, Rust, Node, Java, and TypeScript. Pinpoint cryptographic errors, injection vectors, and hardcoded keys.

Cryptographic Misuse Audits Dependency Supply Chain Checks PR-Ready Fix Suggestions

Full-Scope Adversary Red Teaming

Simulate nation-state and APT actor TTPs. Custom C2 infrastructure, Active Directory privilege escalation, lateral movement, and EDR avoidance to test blue team posture.

Kerberoasting & Pass-the-Hash EDR Evasion & C2 Operations Blue Team Detection Replay

OUR METHODOLOGY

From unknown exposure
to verified closure.

Every phase produces evidence that informs the next. Scope, safeguards, and timing are agreed before testing begins.

TIMING AGREED DURING SCOPING

Attack surface
unknown

01 / RECONNAISSANCE

Map the
attack surface

Explore activities +

Review documentation, map entry points, and understand user roles and authentication flows across in-scope assets.

OUTPUT • TARGET CONTEXT

02 / ASSESSMENT

Find credible
weaknesses

Explore activities +

Combine automated checks and manual assessment of configuration, access controls, input handling, and business logic.

OUTPUT • TEST HYPOTHESES

03 / CONTROLLED EXPLOITATION

Prove what is exploitable

Manual validation establishes real impact within agreed boundaries.

ILLUSTRATIVE EVIDENCE
REQUEST
GET /api/v1/users/42
Session: standard user
RESPONSE
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Another user's private record
IMPACT
Unauthorised access to sensitive data
✓ VALIDATED
Testing boundaries +

Controlled exploitation is performed only where authorised and appropriate. Evidence and validation limitations are documented when exploitation is restricted.

OUTPUT • VERIFIED EVIDENCE

04 / REPORTING

Turn evidence
into action

  • Executive context
  • Reproduction steps
  • Prioritized remediation
Explore deliverables +

Risk ratings, business impact, supporting evidence, and practical remediation guidance, followed by a walkthrough with your team.

OUTPUT • ACTIONABLE REPORT

05 / RETEST

Confirm the fix

RESOLVEDPARTIALOPEN
Explore verification +

Retest agreed findings when fixes are ready. Record resolved, partially resolved, unresolved, and untested items with any limitations.

OUTPUT • CLOSURE STATUS

Verified
closure

MORE ASSURANCE.
A STRONGER TOMORROW.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

Agreed before testing begins

SCOPE
In-scope assets
SAFEGUARDS
Authorised techniques
WINDOWS
Testing schedule
ESCALATION
Named contacts

No destructive actions without explicit agreement

Why it matters

Most breaches begin with something
a proper test would have caught.

These are published industry findings — not our numbers. The pattern behind them is consistent: attackers reach exposed applications through weaknesses that were already there, and it takes months for anyone to notice.

$4.88M Average cost of a single data breach

The global average across industries, counting detection, response, downtime, and lost business.

IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024
258 days To identify and contain a breach

Attackers operate undetected for months. Testing shortens that window before it ever opens.

IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024
180% Rise in attacks exploiting vulnerabilities

Year-on-year growth in breaches where a known weakness was the initial way in.

Verizon, Data Breach Investigations Report 2024
68% Of breaches involve a human element

Misconfiguration, weak access control, and error — the things automated scans routinely miss.

Verizon, Data Breach Investigations Report 2024

Finding these weaknesses first is the cheapest line item in that equation.

Scope Your Assessment
Engineer-Ready Reports

A report your engineers
can act on.

Validated evidence, practical remediation guidance, and clear context for every stakeholder.

Manual
Penetration Test
Report

Confidential

EngagementWeb & API Assessment
Prepared by senior security consultants
04 / Vulnerabilities
High

Broken access control

Business impact

An authenticated user can access another customer’s invoice, exposing sensitive financial information.

EvidenceRedacted example
GET /api/v1/invoices/4821 HTTP/1.1
Host: app.example.com
Authorization: Bearer ••••••
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{ "customer": "Acme Ltd",
  "amount": 12500, "status": "paid" }
Manually validated
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Remediation

Remediation guidance

Practical, testable steps to resolve the issue and prevent recurrence.

  1. 1
    Enforce ownership checks

    Verify entitlement on every requested resource.

  2. 2
    Centralize authorization

    Apply one well-tested policy layer across controllers.

  3. 3
    Add regression coverage

    Prevent the weakness from reappearing in future releases.

Example fix Simplified
Before- Invoice.find(id)
After+ current_user.invoices.find(id)
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Reproducible proof
Prioritized fix guidance
Independent retest
Expert-Led Penetration Testing

Your security posture, hardened before attackers find the gap.

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Testimonials

What teams say after the report lands

4.9 average across post-engagement client reviews
The report didn’t read like a scanner dump. Every finding had a working proof-of-concept and a remediation path our engineers could action inside a single sprint.
Head of Platform Security Series B FinTech · Bengaluru
They chained three medium-severity findings into a full account takeover that a previous vendor had signed off as low risk. That one chain paid for the engagement.
Chief Technology Officer Healthcare SaaS · Pune
The retest was included, and they re-broke two of our fixes. Uncomfortable to read — but that is exactly what we were paying for.
Engineering Manager Logistics Platform · Mumbai
We had been through four vendors before this. SpotDefence is the first that asked how our business actually works before touching a single endpoint.
Chief Information Security Officer Payments Infrastructure · Singapore
Our SOC 2 auditor accepted the report without a single follow-up question. In six years of audits, that had never happened before.
VP of Engineering B2B SaaS · Hyderabad
A tenant isolation flaw surfaced on day two that would have been catastrophic in front of our enterprise customers. Disclosed privately, fixed in 48 hours, retested the same week.
Director of Infrastructure Multi-Tenant SaaS · Dubai

Client names are withheld under NDA — standard practice for offensive security work. Request referenceable clients

Industries We Serve

Security testing tailored
to your industry.

Banking & BFSI

Payment rails, transaction integrity, and the authorisation logic sitting behind them.

Payment Flows Transaction Auth BOLA

Healthcare & MedTech

Patient records, clinical integrations, and every system that moves data between them.

Patient Data ePHI Exposure HL7/FHIR

AI & Data Platforms

Model endpoints, retrieval pipelines, and the tools your agents are allowed to call.

OWASP LLM Vector Injection RAG

SaaS & Cloud Tech

Tenant boundaries, entitlement logic, and the infrastructure customers quietly share.

Tenant Isolation Multi-Tenant IAM

E-Commerce & Retail

Checkout logic, pricing integrity, and the fraud-adjacent paths around both.

Checkout Race Conditions Fraud APIs

Fintech & Web3

Custody paths, contract logic, and everywhere private keys are handled.

Smart Contracts Custody Auth Wallets

Gov & Public Sector

Segmented networks, legacy interfaces, and access boundaries that cannot bend.

Segmentation Legacy Systems Zero Trust

Manufacturing & OT

Plant networks, device interfaces, and the IT/OT boundary between them.

SCADA IoT Network Segmentation

Working in a sector that isn’t listed? We scope engagements around your threat model, not a template. Talk to an engineer

Engagement & Pricing

Every application is different.
So is every proposal.

  1. Scoping call

    Meet the senior engineer leading the assessment and agree what matters most.

  2. Commercial proposal

    Receive one fixed fee covering scope, depth, timeline, deliverables, and consultant.

  3. Engagement kickoff

    Choose the testing window and open a direct channel with our engineers.

What we map on the call

Accurate scope is what makes coverage complete.

We map the product before testing so effort follows real business risk.

Application scope & assets
Tech stack & architecture
Critical user workflows
Business logic & authorization
Target customers & data sensitivity
Timeline & release cadence
Kickoff Timing Agreed
Findings Manually Validated
Free Retest Within 90 Days
Mutual NDA Available

We’d love to learn about your application.

Tell us what you’ve built. We’ll return a clear, fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours.

No sales pitch Mutual NDA available Senior engineer-led
FAQ

Answers to your most
common security questions.

Direct answers on test safety, deliverables, and confidentiality governance.

Have a custom scoping question?

Speak directly with a senior security architect about your environment, timeline, or custom threat model.

01 How long does a standard penetration testing engagement take?

Standard web application and API assessments take 5–7 business days. Mobile binary audits (iOS + Android) typically require 7–10 business days. Prior to kickoff, our lead consultant provides a day-by-day milestone roadmap and integrates with your release sprint timeline.

02 Will penetration testing cause disruption or downtime to our services?

Never. We employ non-destructive testing with granular rate limiting and safe attack vectors. All testing can occur on staging or production during your preferred testing windows (including off-peak hours). Heavy payload fuzzing is strictly supervised by senior consultants.

03 What concrete deliverables do we receive upon assessment completion?

You receive an Executive Summary designed for board members and enterprise buyers, a comprehensive Technical Vulnerability Report with CVSS v3.1 scoring and verified PoC cURL reproduction steps, PR-ready developer code remediation guides, and an updated report confirming closed findings after your free retest.

04 Can we bring in-house engineers along for the exploit walkthroughs?

Yes, and we encourage it. For critical findings, your lead consultant walks your engineering team through the live exploit on a call, not just in a written report. It shortens the time from finding to fix and gives your team direct context they can apply to future code.

05 How does the 90-day free retesting policy work?

Once your developers deploy patches for identified vulnerabilities, simply notify your dedicated lead consultant. We re-test all remediated vectors at zero additional fee within 90 days and publish an updated report confirming exactly which findings are closed.

06 How do you protect our confidential vulnerability data and source code?

Arrange a mutual NDA and a secure channel before sharing confidential assessment information. Access, evidence handling and safeguards are agreed in writing. Our default report-retention period is six months from final report delivery, subject to applicable legal requirements and any lawful written agreement.

07 Will you use AI tools with our code or data?

Any proposed AI-tool use involving your code, data or assessment evidence must be agreed in writing before that information is processed. Scoping covers permitted tools, approved data, access, retention and any restrictions on external processing. An NDA alone does not authorise AI-tool use. Our security consultants remain responsible for validating findings and reviewing the final report.

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in under 24 hours.

Share a high-level description of your requirements. We will discuss scope, confidentiality arrangements and the next steps for a fixed-fee proposal.

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