Pentesting

Simulate real-world attacks to uncover vulnerabilities, strengthen your defenses, and ensure you’re ready for anything—from compliance checks to active threats.

What is pentesting?

Pentesting or penetration testing is a technique to check the security of your platform, application, or infrastructure. The goal is to uncover blind spots that a malicious user could exploit. With pentesting, you ensure that your app, platform, or infrastructure is secure before releasing it to the public.

Who uses pentesting?

Internal security departments often organise penetration tests before deploying a new platform or an application. Similarly, companies who have outsourced web development use pentesting to double-check the result before going live. And for organisations that work with sensitive data or support significant transactions, regular pentesting can be mandatory to comply with industry standards or regulations.

The advantages of pentesting

Create safe applications

Pentesting allows you to uncover hidden flaws in your application’s code, architecture, and configurations—so you can patch weaknesses proactively and reduce risk.

Improve your security

By testing your application under real-world attack scenarios, you gain the assurance that your codebase is robust, secure, and ready for production.

Learn about security

Whether it’s ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or GDPR, regular pentesting can help demonstrate your commitment to security and support your compliance efforts.

When to perform pentesting?

Before Going Live

Before releasing a new application, website, or feature into production, pentesting helps identify critical flaws that could be exploited once it’s live. It’s your last line of defense before exposure.

After a Major Change

Significant code changes, infrastructure upgrades, or new features can unintentionally open up new vulnerabilities. Regular pentests after these changes ensure nothing slips through the cracks.

To Check a Third Party

When you rely on third-party tools, platforms, or APIs, their weaknesses can become your vulnerabilities. Pentesting helps ensure those external connections don’t compromise your security posture.

To Prove Your Security Level

Clients, partners, and regulators often require proof of a secure system. A professional pentest provides documented evidence that your defenses are strong and up to standard.

How Pentesting Works

1. Briefing

We begin with a kick-off meeting to align with your development team, set clear boundaries, and understand your application's architecture and critical assets.

2. Testing

Our security experts test your application for vulnerabilities using industry-leading tools and manual techniques. If we discover critical issues, we notify you immediately to minimize exposure.

3. Reporting

We present a detailed report of our findings, including risk levels, potential impact, and prioritized recommendations. We walk through it with your developers to ensure nothing is lost in translation.

4. Retesting (Optional)

After remediation, we can perform targeted retesting to confirm that vulnerabilities have been properly resolved—giving you full peace of mind before moving forward.

Pentesting in a nutshell

We keep your security system safe

At Refracted, we believe that everyone has the right to be safe in a digital world. That is why we dedicate all our knowledge and skills to keeping your security systems healthy. Just like power fruit, we boost up your immune system and protect you from harm.

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Pentesting is the ultimate security test for your app, platform or infrastructure. We flag technical security flaws before hackers find them. This way, you can always deploy with confidence.