Most pentests look identical from the outside. The difference shows up in who does the work, what the report looks like, and what happens after you fix things.
A report your auditor pushes back on means evidence asks, field-work delays, and a remediation cycle you did not budget for. A report your customer rejects stalls the deal. A report your engineers ignore means the same findings appear next year — and the auditor notices.
The person you meet on the scoping call leads the testing — no bait-and-switch after the contract is signed. Engagements are kept in-house, staffed small and senior by design.
Average tester experience: 8+ years. OSCP, OSWE, and GXPN across the team.
One document, three audiences: a one-page board summary, a control-mapped executive section, and a developer section where every finding has steps, evidence, severity, and a paste-ready remediation.
Findings link to concrete code-level remediations, not generic CVE descriptions.
After you fix items in the report we retest them and update the report — at no extra cost. The version you hand your auditor or customer reflects the post-fix state.
No retest line item. No surprise change order. Built into the engagement price.
| Compared on | CyberGuards | Typical pentest vendor | Scanner only |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tester seniority | Senior tester end-to-end | Sales engineer scopes; junior tester executes | No human in the loop |
| Findings shape | Working PoC, severity, paste-ready remediation | CVE descriptions, generic guidance | Raw output, false positives, duplicates |
| Business logic | In scope by default | Out of scope or surface-level | Cannot reason about it |
| Report audience | Board, auditors, engineers — one document | Long PDF tuned for compliance only | CSV or dashboard, not audit-ready |
| Retest after fixes | Reported items, included | Add-on, billed separately | Re-run scan only |
| Audit support | Control mapping for SOC 2, ISO, PCI, HIPAA | Generic audit narrative | Not audit-grade |
See how the engagement holds up for your situation.
A quick scoping call gives you a fixed scope, price, and date — no commitment required.
Get a straight answer"The pentest report cleared the security review and the deal closed two weeks later."
Series B SaaS, San Francisco
"Our auditor closed the pentest control on the first read of the report. No follow-up evidence asks."
Mid-market healthcare platform
"For the first time our engineers fixed every finding before the retest, because the remediations were copy-paste useful."
Fintech, San Francisco
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Often, yes — because we are smaller and the deliverable is tighter. Cheapest is not the goal; honest scope, senior testing, and a report that needs no rework is. We will quote a real number on the scoping call.
Yes, with sequential or parallel engagements. We scope each surface explicitly so each gets the depth it needs.
Read the engagement model. Reference customers are available on request after the scoping call. A report your auditor and customers accept without rework is the most honest reference there is.
A second opinion is fair game. We can scope a smaller follow-up engagement to a recent finding, a product change, or an audit gap.
A compliance pentest layers control mapping and audit-aligned scope onto the same engagement model — senior testers, paste-ready findings, retest included. The underlying test is identical.
You hear about it the same day, not in the final report. We share evidence over the live channel and recommend an interim mitigation if a fix will take longer than a few days.
Yes. Mutual NDAs are standard before any sensitive material moves. Written rules of engagement are signed before any testing begins.
After the scoping call we can introduce you to two or three customers in a similar industry and stage. Introductions follow a real fit.
A quick scoping call with the senior tester who would run your engagement. No slides, no pitch — we look at what you have, tell you what we would test first, and give you a fixed scope, price, and date.
