Application Penetration Testing
Web Apps — APIs — Mobile — Source Code
Every application your organisation exposes to users, partners, or the internet is an attack surface. Automated scanners flag the obvious. Our testers find the vulnerabilities that matter — the business logic flaws, chained exploits, and authentication bypasses that lead to actual breaches.
What We Test
We test applications the way a real attacker targets them — not through a predefined checklist, but by understanding your application's logic, architecture, and data flows, then systematically exploiting them.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Full manual assessment of your web applications — from authentication and session management to business logic and data handling. We go far beyond automated DAST scanning to test what matters: can an attacker escalate privileges, access other users' data, or manipulate business workflows?
API Penetration Testing
REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and WebSocket APIs tested against the OWASP API Security Top 10. We map your API surface, test every endpoint, and exploit authorisation logic that scanners cannot detect — including BOLA, mass assignment, and business flow abuse.
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Client-side and server-side assessment of your mobile apps. We decompile, reverse-engineer, and test against the OWASP Mobile Top 10 — covering insecure data storage, weak cryptography, certificate pinning bypass, and API communication flaws.
Source Code Review
Manual code review by security engineers — not just an automated SAST tool run. We trace data flows through your codebase to find injection points, hardcoded secrets, insecure deserialization, and logic flaws that only human reviewers can identify.
Aligned to OWASP Top 10 : 2025
The OWASP Top 10 was updated in 2025 — the first revision since 2021, analysing 589 CWEs across 175,000+ CVE records. Our testing methodology maps directly to these categories, ensuring your applications are assessed against the most current risk landscape.
Broken Access Control
IDOR, privilege escalation, CORS misconfiguration. SSRF now consolidated here.
Security Misconfiguration
Moved from #5 to #2. Default credentials, exposed panels, verbose errors.
Supply Chain Failures
Compromised dependencies, build pipeline attacks, third-party component risks.
Cryptographic Failures
Weak algorithms, poor key management, missing TLS enforcement.
Injection
SQL, XSS, command injection — still the largest number of CVEs across all categories.
Insecure Design
Architecture-level flaws. Threat modelling gaps, missing security controls by design.
Authentication Failures
Credential stuffing, weak MFA, session fixation, token mismanagement.
Data Integrity Failures
Insecure deserialization, CI/CD pipeline integrity, unsigned updates.
Logging & Alerting Failures
Insufficient monitoring that delays breach detection and forensic response.
Exceptional Conditions
Improper error handling, failing open, logic errors under abnormal conditions.
Our assessments use the OWASP Top 10 as a baseline — not a ceiling. We test beyond the Top 10 to cover business-specific risks unique to your application.
Automated Scanner ≠ Penetration Test
Running a DAST or SAST tool against your application is not a penetration test. If your last "pentest" was a scanner-generated PDF with no proof-of-concept exploits, you have not been penetration tested.
Automated Scanner
Manual Penetration Test
Our 5-Phase Assessment Methodology
We combine automated reconnaissance with deep manual exploitation. Every finding is validated by hand. Every report is actionable.
Scoping & Reconnaissance
Map the application surface, define testing boundaries, identify technologies, and enumerate all endpoints, roles, and data flows.
Automated Discovery
Deploy industry-standard scanning tools to establish a vulnerability baseline. This surfaces the known issues — the starting point, not the finish line.
Manual Exploitation
Our OSCP-certified testers manually probe authentication logic, authorisation boundaries, business workflows, and input handling — finding what scanners miss.
Reporting & Debrief
Detailed findings with proof-of-concept evidence, severity ratings, and remediation guidance tailored to your development stack. Executive summary included.
Remediation Retest
After your team fixes the findings, we retest to confirm vulnerabilities are properly closed — not just patched on the surface.
Why Organisations Choose AKATI Sekurity
CREST & OSCP Certified
Our testers hold industry-recognised offensive security certifications. CREST accreditation means our methodology is independently audited.
Manual-First Approach
We use scanners for baseline coverage. Every critical and high finding is discovered, validated, and exploited manually by a human tester.
Actionable Reports
Every finding includes proof-of-concept evidence, risk context for your business, and remediation steps your developers can act on immediately.
Remediation Retest
We do not just report and walk away. After remediation, we retest every finding to confirm the fix is effective — included in every engagement.
Secure Your Applications Before Attackers Do
Tell us what you need tested — web application, API, mobile app, or source code — and we will scope an assessment tailored to your application architecture, compliance requirements, and risk profile.