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Application Penetration Testing
Find hidden vulnerabilities, attack paths, and critical risks in your web, mobile, desktop, and API applications before they can be exploited.
Application Security Assurance
OnDefend application testing validates security controls, maps real world attack paths, and uncovers high-impact vulnerabilities including business logic and API weaknesses attackers commonly exploit, strengthening your security posture while supporting compliance requirements for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, and other regulatory frameworks.
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Application Testing Capabilities
Dynamic Application Testing
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) evaluates applications while running to identify exploitable vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, authentication weaknesses, and access control issues. By simulating real attacker behavior, we validate application security controls and help organizations reduce risk in deployed environments.
Source Code Review
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) analyzes application source code to detect security flaws without executing it. This approach identifies insecure coding patterns, logic errors, and hidden vulnerabilities early, enabling developers to remediate issues before deployment and strengthen application security throughout the development lifecycle.
Applications Tested for Real-World Risk
We assess how effectively your security controls protect applications and software, helping you identify risk, prevent exploitation, and maintain confidence in your security posture.
Web Application Testing
Web application security testing identifies vulnerabilities, business logic weaknesses, and access control issues that could be exploited by attackers. This testing supports organizations developing, maintaining, or modernizing web applications and provides assurance that application level security controls are functioning as intended.
Mobile Application Testing
Mobile application security testing evaluates authentication, authorization, data storage, and backend integration within mobile applications. This testing supports organizations releasing or maintaining mobile software and helps validate that application security controls protect sensitive data and user interactions.
Desktop Application Testing
Desktop application security testing assesses how applications handle local execution, permissions, update mechanisms, and communication with backend services. This testing supports organizations deploying desktop software and helps ensure security controls operate effectively across user environments.
API Security Testing
API security testing evaluates authentication, authorization, input handling, and data exposure across application programming interfaces. This testing supports secure system integration and helps validate that application level controls prevent unauthorized access and misuse of data.
AI-powered adversaries don’t exploit vulnerabilities.
They exploit attack paths.
AI-powered adversaries exploit more than vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. They chain together hidden risks like exploitable designs, security control failures, and novel attack techniques to reach critical assets. The goal is no longer finding every weakness, but breaking attack paths with the fewest high-impact fixes.
Reconnaissance
Attack Surface Mapped
Exploit
Initial Access
Misconfiguration Exploited
PIVOT
Privilege Escalation
Exploitable Design Abused
Chain
Exploitation
Low-Severity Finding Chained
exploit
Lateral Movement
Novel Technique Executed
bypass
Defense Evasion
Security Controls Defeated
Lateral
Impact
Critical Asset Compromised
Traditional pen tests and vulnerability scanners find these
What AI-powered adversaries find and chain into attack paths
Giving You The Competitive Advantage
Let us give you a decisive advantage over adversaries by combining elite application security expertise, intelligence-driven testing, and validation that reflects real-world attacker behavior.
Elite Offensive Operators
Our testing is led by deeply experienced network offensive security practitioners with advanced certifications in network penetration testing and offensive security. Our team specializes in acting like a persistent adversary to protect your organization from a real one.
Intelligence-Driven Testing
Testing is guided by a blend of external and proprietary threat intelligence, focusing on the most relevant attacker techniques, emerging threats, and high-impact paths to compromise.
AI- and Automation Enhanced Coverage
AI-driven automation and advanced analytics extend coverage across complex enterprise networks, expanding discovery of exposed services, trust relationships, segmentation failures, and lateral movement paths at scale.
Continuous Testing Capabilities
Automation and analytics enable ongoing validation as networks evolve, our team is able to gain efficiencies with every assessment. Maintaining visibility into new exposures introduced by infrastructure changes, device additions, or configuration drift.
Executive and Technical Reporting
Clear reporting delivers prioritized, actionable findings for security teams while translating technical risk into business-level insights, aligning remediation efforts to both operational impact and business risk.
Beyond Compliance Validation
Testing aligns with NIST 800-115, PTES, and relevant network security guidance while validating real-world exploitability, demonstrating whether application controls actually prevent compromise beyond compliance requirements.
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Partners with Yours
Our team partners with yours to gain a deep understanding of your environment and objectives so we can effectively deliver clear communication, expert guidance, and actionable insight that ensures the outcomes align with your security and business goals.
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Read ArticleApplication Penetration Testing FAQs
What is application penetration testing?
Application penetration testing is a security assessment that identifies and validates exploitable weaknesses in web, mobile, desktop, and API applications.
How is application penetration testing different from automated scanning?
Automated scans only detect basic issues while penetration testing validates real impact through hands-on exploitation.
What vulnerabilities are common in applications?
Frequent vulnerabilities found in applications include logic flaws, injection points, insecure authentication, exposed APIs, and data exposure.
Can APIs be penetration tested?
Yes. API testing identifies authorization issues, insecure endpoints, and integration weaknesses attackers often target.
How often should application penetration testing be performed?
Most organizations test annually, after major releases, or before launching new applications or features.
What is the difference between application penetration testing and the OnDefend Continuous Security Inspector program?
Application penetration testing is a point-in-time assessment that finds and validates exploitable vulnerabilities in your web, mobile, desktop, and API applications.
The OnDefend Continuous Security Inspector (CSI) program provides ongoing adversarial validation that uncovers hidden risks traditional testing cannot see. OnDefend CSI identifies supply-chain threats, tampered dependencies, covert C2 channels, insecure integrations, and other exposures that emerge as your application and environment change.
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