SaaS Penetration Testing Services
SaaS platforms hold sensitive customer data across shared infrastructure, leaving vulnerabilities in authentication, tenant isolation, and API endpoints as direct business risks. One exploited flaw can compromise multiple tenants, triggering data breaches and regulatory penalties.
Cyphere’s SaaS penetration testing assesses your application against real-world attack vectors, covering business logic flaws, privilege escalation, API security, and cross-tenant data leakage. Secure your SaaS product before threat actors find the gaps.
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Why is SaaS penetration testing assessment important for businesses?
Security has taken a hot seat of ‘strategic importance’ in board rooms compared to the traditional ‘cost center’. Increasing reliability on third-party cloud services has raised awareness around data security and privacy concerns.
Both the parties, SaaS solution and their customers, commonly provide their solutions for thorough SaaS penetration testing to determine the unknowns to assess and prepare for futuristic events.
Data breaches and compliance are the two most common reasons to justify SaaS penetration testing. Attacks targeting cloud-based infrastructure have been increasing by 50% year over year, as stated in Verizon Data Breach Report 2020.
Although some weaknesses may or may not be known to security teams, cyber assurance to validate your security controls offering peace of mind to customers in one fell swoop is seen as a critical step in SaaS software development services.
How to perform SaaS penetration testing?
Cyphere’s Software as a Service SaaS security testing takes a more comprehensive approach in showing you the unknowns where your blind spots are. Whether it is due to compliance, customer pressures or other reasons, SaaS assessments sometimes take the form of vulnerability assessments, mobile application penetration testing and application security testing.
SaaS penetration testing, also called “ethical hacking“, is conducted to identify, assess and exploit critical vulnerabilities to simulate a threat actor’s approach in real-time. It includes tailored advice on mitigating the identified risks with clear information about the likelihood and impact of successful attacks.
Cyphere’s security consultants agree on the white box, grey box or black box penetration test methodologies that define the threat scenarios to be simulated during the assessment in SaaS platform. Our assessment methodology is aligned with various standards such as OWASP, CIS and SANS control to provide clarity for customers.
To align with a proactive, secure SaaS software approach for a SaaS application, conducting penetration testing or one-component security assessment alone is insufficient to test an asset’s breadth and depth. It also involves architectural reviews, source code reviews, networks, management, and project-related processes.
Specifically, SaaS application security concerns in addition to penetration test checks, include business logic and workflow vulnerabilities, third-party integrations and modules security issues.
SaaS application security tools utilised during a security assessment are no different than SaaS penetration testing such as Burp web proxy suite, other web vulnerabilities, and network scanners, scripts, and WAF configuration checks. As a SaaS security company, the added expertise, understanding of SaaS applications, and business logic make the difference.
SaaS security vulnerabilities
SaaS security vulnerabilities include inadequate data encryption, misconfigured access controls, insecure APIs, lack of user authentication, and insufficient monitoring practices.
Benefits of CREST approved SaaS Penetration Testing
- Visibility around concerns & priorities
- Validation of SaaS solutions in use including third party integrations
- Comply with regulatory requirements (GDPR, PCI DSS)
- Controlled data access, stability and reliability
- Secure authentication and authorisation
- Minimise costs and maximise your team efficiency with SAAS Penetration Testing
Why choose Cyphere as SaaS Penetration Testing Company?
Excellent people to work with.
"Very good knowledge of requirement and give us correct findings with excellent remedy to improve our security for our B2B portal site."
Harman was great, really knowledgeable
"Harman was great, really knowledgeable, helpful and on hand to answer any questions. The final report was very clear providing all the technical information."
My experience of the team was 5 star.
"They were so helpful, and their technical delivery and client communication were excellent."
Extremely satisfied
"Extremely satisfied with their approach, speed and end results that I got for my company. Big Thanks."
Experienced Team
"Great experienced team, very knowledgable and helpful, willing to adjust the product to suit the customer. Would recommend."
Professional Work
"A totally professional engagement from start to finish with the highest quality advice and guidance."
High Quality Testing Service
"The service provided by Cyphere is second to none. High quality testing services. Very reliable and professional approach."
Assured Service
"Cyphere provide a personal and assured service, focusing on both pre and post analysis in supporting us to change and embed a security cultured approach."
Recommended Service
"Highly recommend Cyphere for pen testing. The recommendations in the report were comprehensive and communicated so that technical and non-technical members of the team could follow them."
Recommended Pen Testing Service
"Cyphere were great in both carrying out our penetration testing and taking us through the results and remediation steps. We would gladly use them for future projects.
Highly Recommended
"We had penetration tests service for PCI DSS compliance program from the Cyphere! Very professional, efficient communication, great findings that improved our system security posture! Highly recommended!
Exceeded Expectations
"Harman and the team at Cyphere truly are experts in their field and provide an outstanding service! Always going above and beyond to exceed customer expectations.
Skilled Team
I’ve worked with Cyphere on a number of penetration tests in addition to some cyber essentials support and certification! I’ve found them to be highly skilled and professional.
Skilled Team
I’ve worked with Cyphere on a number of penetration tests in addition to some cyber essentials support and certification! I’ve found them to be highly skilled and professional.
Perceptive Reporting
Cyphere undertook pen testing for us recently. The process was very smooth, and the team were flexible in working around our constraints. The report was clear, actionable and perceptive.
Outstanding Cybersecurity Partner
Cyphere has been outstanding partner to our agency. I've tried many in the past but they have been extremely meticulous in getting our systems secured.
Helpful Services
Cyphere has been an excellent partner and helped us achieve our goals with a great level of expertise, communication and helpfulness making the whole process easy to understand and complete.
High Standards
Harman and his team were excellent throughout, they understood and completed the tasks (external penetration test) within tight deadlines to a high standard.
Communicative & Responsive Team
I had an amazing experience working with Cyphere! Their communication was top-notch, making the entire process smooth and efficient. I found their team to be incredibly responsive and attentive to my needs.
Efficient Service
Worked with team at Cyphere for a cyber security assessment, gap analysis etc. The team has delivered a very professional, efficient service at all stages of the process to date.