Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)
Penetration testing as a service (PTaaS): certified human testers, on-demand scheduling, live findings dashboard, Jira and Slack. Retest included.
Penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) gives you certified human testers on a subscription, with findings in a live dashboard instead of a PDF that arrives weeks later. You schedule tests when you need them, track fixes in one place, and stop treating security testing as a once-a-year event.
What PTaaS is, and what it is not
The traditional pentest is a project. You email a vendor, wait for a scoping call, wait for a slot, get a week of testing, then wait again for a report that lands as a static document. By the time you read it, some of it is already stale. PTaaS keeps the rigor of manual testing but changes the delivery: an ongoing subscription, a platform to schedule and view work, and results that appear as they are confirmed.
It is worth being clear about what PTaaS is not. It is not a vulnerability scanner with a nicer login page. The market has plenty of those, and they hand you the same noisy output as any scanner. Our PTaaS puts real engineers behind the platform, so the dashboard shows verified findings with reproduction steps, not a raw feed of maybes.
How PTaaS works with us
You subscribe to a plan sized to your estate, and the platform becomes the place where testing is scheduled, tracked and reported. The engineers doing the work are the same certified testers who run our standalone engagements, so nothing about the depth changes.
Onboarding and scope
We define the assets in scope, set up access, and connect the integrations you use. Your team gets accounts on the platform, and we confirm the rules of engagement so testing is safe against production or targeted at staging, whichever you prefer.
Scheduling a test
When you need a test, you request it in the platform: a full assessment of an application, a focused test of a new feature, or a retest of a previous finding. We assign an engineer with the right specialty and confirm the window. No procurement cycle, no waiting weeks for a slot.
Testing and live findings
The engineer works manually, backed by tooling, and logs each confirmed finding to the dashboard with its severity, reproduction steps and a fix. Your developers see a critical issue the moment it is verified, and if a finding pushes into a Jira ticket automatically, the fix workflow starts without anyone copying text between systems.
Remediation and retest
When your team marks a finding fixed, we retest it and update the status. Retesting is part of the subscription, so confirming a fix does not mean commissioning a new engagement.
What we test through the platform
PTaaS covers the same breadth as project-based testing, delivered continuously. The scope you subscribe to determines what is available to schedule.
Web applications and APIs
Manual testing for broken access control and IDOR, injection, authentication and session flaws, SSRF, and business-logic abuse across your web apps and their REST or GraphQL APIs. New functionality from a release can be scheduled the moment it ships.
External and cloud infrastructure
Internet-facing hosts, exposed services, TLS configuration, and cloud misconfigurations such as over-permissive roles or storage that became public. The platform keeps your scope current so a newly exposed asset can be tested quickly.
Mobile and specialized targets
Where your subscription includes them, mobile applications and other specialized targets are tested by engineers with the relevant experience, scheduled the same way as everything else.
PTaaS versus a traditional pentest
A traditional annual pentest still has a place, especially where a single deep engagement against a complex system is the goal. PTaaS wins on cadence, workflow and speed of retest. Where the classic model gives you one report a year and a slow feedback loop, PTaaS gives your developers findings inside the tools they already use, a retest in days, and the ability to test a release the week it ships. For teams practicing continuous delivery, the annual snapshot simply cannot keep up, and PTaaS is how that gap gets closed without giving up manual rigor.
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The PTaaS market and why it grew
PTaaS grew because software delivery changed and testing did not. As teams moved to frequent releases, the annual pentest became a poor fit, and buyers wanted results in a dashboard rather than a PDF, integration with their issue tracker, and a subscription budget rather than a procurement event each time. The category now spans everything from thin scanner wrappers to genuine human-led services. When you evaluate providers across Europe, the question that separates them is simple: who actually looks at your systems, a person or a tool. Ours are people.
Who does the testing
The platform is the delivery mechanism, not the thing that finds your bugs. Behind it are certified offensive engineers holding OSCP and OSWE, the same people who run our project engagements. When you schedule a test of a payment flow, an engineer who has broken payment flows before picks it up, and you can message that person directly through the platform to clarify a finding or ask what a fix should look like. That direct line matters more than most feature lists, because the fastest way to resolve a finding is a short conversation with the person who found it.
Continuity across tests
Because it is a subscription, the testers get to know your system. The second test of an application is sharper than the first, since the engineer already understands your authentication model, your roles and where you tend to cut corners. Over time that institutional memory turns each engagement into a deeper one rather than a cold start, which is something a one-off vendor relationship can never build.
How onboarding actually goes
Getting started is deliberately light. Most teams are scheduling their first test within a few days of signing, not weeks.
Scope and access
We agree the assets in scope, set up your accounts, and arrange the access a test needs: credentials for authenticated testing, a staging environment if you would rather we stay off production, and any IP allowlisting your controls require. The rules of engagement are written once and reused, so every later test inherits them.
Integrations
If you are on the Growth or Scale plan, we connect Jira and Slack during onboarding. From then on a confirmed finding can open a ticket in the right project with the reproduction steps attached, and the developer who owns that area is notified where they already work. Nobody copies findings between systems by hand.
First test
Your first scheduled test establishes a baseline in the dashboard. From there, every retest and every new engagement builds on that record, so your remediation history and your current risk live in one place rather than scattered across a folder of PDFs from different years.
Where PTaaS fits, and where a deep project still wins
PTaaS is the right default for teams that ship often and want testing woven into how they build. It is not a claim that every engagement should be a subscription. A first-of-its-kind system, a complex red-team objective, or a one-time compliance milestone can still be better served by a single deep project, and we run those too. The honest answer for many organizations across Europe is a mix: a subscription for the continuous surface, and an occasional deep-dive when a new high-risk product warrants concentrated attention.
Budgeting as a subscription rather than a project
There is a practical reason finance teams warm to PTaaS. A predictable monthly cost is easier to plan than a lumpy annual purchase that triggers a fresh procurement cycle each time, and it removes the temptation to skip testing in a tight quarter because the invoice was large and all at once. Spreading the cost also means testing keeps pace with growth: as you add applications, you move up a plan rather than negotiating a new statement of work from scratch. For a scaling business that wants security spend to track the size of the estate it is protecting, the subscription shape simply fits better than a once-a-year lump.
Compliance and standards
PTaaS is built to produce audit-ready evidence on demand. The reports are written to satisfy PCI DSS 4.0 requirement 11.4 for penetration testing, the technical-vulnerability management expected under ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A control A.8.8, and the monitoring criteria under SOC 2 such as CC7.1 and CC7.2. For GDPR, testing evidences the security-of-processing obligation under Article 32. Organizations under DORA or NIS2 can use the ongoing testing and reporting to support their risk-management measures. Because reports generate from the current state, you are never scrambling to assemble evidence before an audit.
Pricing
PTaaS is a subscription priced by the size of your estate and the depth of testing you need: how many applications and hosts are in scope, how often you schedule tests, and whether coverage includes authenticated multi-role and specialized targets. A larger, more active estate sits in a higher tier.
| Plan | What’s included | Cadence | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | One web app and its API, on-demand manual testing, live dashboard, retesting, standard compliance reports | subscription, scheduled tests | from €1,500/month |
| Growth | Several applications plus external infrastructure, authenticated multi-role testing, Jira and Slack integration | subscription, scheduled tests | from €2,800/month |
| Scale | Broad estate, mobile and specialized targets, priority scheduling, dedicated engineer, on-demand audit reports | subscription, scheduled tests | €4,500–€9,000/month |
| Single assessment | A one-off project pentest through the platform without a subscription, full report and free retest | 5–10 working days | from €2,500 |
| Custom / enterprise | Large or complex estates and specific SLAs, scoped after a call | on scoping | custom |
Every plan is fixed-price, quoted after a free 20-minute scoping call, with retesting built in and no hourly surprises. Get a fixed quote
FAQ
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Related services
Fast-moving SaaS and product teams that release often, security leaders who want findings in their developers’ workflow rather than a static PDF, and organizations that need audit-ready testing evidence available on demand across Europe.
Security you can prove
The same standard on every engagement, big or small.
Evidence, not opinions
Every finding ships with a reproduction and proof of concept — no vague "maybe vulnerable".
Humans over scanners
Certified engineers find the logic flaws and chained attacks automated tools walk straight past.
Fixed price, free retest
You know the cost up front, and verifying the fix is part of the deal — not a second invoice.
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