Security testing that moves with your release cycle
Annual penetration tests create a false sense of security — your product changes every sprint, and so does your attack surface. CyVigilant integrates into your development cadence with quarterly or continuous application pentesting, so vulnerabilities are caught before they ship to customers.
From point-in-time audits to continuous assurance.
A traditional annual penetration test gives you a snapshot of your security posture on one day in the year. In a modern SaaS or fintech product, your engineering team ships new features, APIs, and infrastructure changes weekly — each one a potential new vulnerability. Point-in-time testing misses all of it.
Continuous security testing solves this by integrating CyVigilant into your release cycle. We scope a retainer that covers new features and APIs as they are built, with a dedicated tester who understands your architecture. Tests are scoped to changed or new components so they run quickly — fitting within your sprint or release window — and findings are triaged in real time so your engineers can fix them before the next deployment. Every quarter, we also run a full-surface test of your entire application to catch anything that accumulated between targeted tests.
The output is a cumulative pentest report that grows with your programme — the same document enterprise security teams and SOC 2 auditors ask for. Combine this with the SaaS industry-specific guidance and our penetration testing methodology and you have a security programme that actually matches the pace your engineering team works at.
Programme model
- Quarterly
- Full-surface tests
- Per-sprint
- Targeted feature tests
- Cumulative
- Report grows with the programme
- Real-time
- Finding triage, not end-of-engagement
Security testing embedded in your release workflow.
Four steps to integrate continuous security testing into your engineering cadence without slowing down shipping.
Baseline full-surface pentest
We begin with a comprehensive application pentest across your full production scope — web app, APIs, mobile, and cloud infrastructure — to establish a baseline and triage the highest-risk existing findings.
Kickoff in 48 hrsRelease-scoped feature testing
For each major release or sprint cycle, you share a diff or feature brief. A dedicated tester focuses on new and changed components — authentication flows, new API endpoints, and permission model changes.
Per-sprint cadenceQuarterly full-surface review
Every quarter we run a full application pentest to catch any vulnerabilities that accumulated between targeted tests, updating the cumulative report with all new and resolved findings.
Quarterly cadenceCumulative report + remediation support
Your cumulative report is always current — usable for enterprise security questionnaires, SOC 2 evidence, and investor due diligence. We also provide remediation office hours for your engineering team throughout the programme.
Always up to dateWhat continuous testing delivers
Continuous security testing — frequently asked questions
Common questions from engineering leaders and CISOs scoping a continuous testing programme.
Automated DAST and SAST tools are good at catching well-known, pattern-match vulnerabilities — injection, obvious misconfigurations. What they cannot do is reason about business logic, chain multi-step attack paths, or test novel authorization flows in a way that mirrors a real attacker. CyVigilant continuous testing is expert-led — a dedicated senior tester who knows your codebase and architecture reviews new features as they are built, focusing on the high-severity flaws scanners miss.
Automated DAST and SAST tools are good at catching well-known, pattern-match vulnerabilities — injection, obvious misconfigurations. What they cannot do is reason about business logic, chain multi-step attack paths, or test novel authorization flows in a way that mirrors a real attacker. CyVigilant continuous testing is expert-led — a dedicated senior tester who knows your codebase and architecture reviews new features as they are built, focusing on the high-severity flaws scanners miss.
The cumulative report is a living document updated after every test cycle. It contains all findings across the programme history — with status (open, remediated, accepted risk), severity, discovery date, and remediation date. The executive summary shows your security posture trend over time. Enterprise security teams and SOC 2 auditors find this format more useful than a series of point-in-time reports because it demonstrates both the depth of testing and the speed of remediation.
SOC 2 Type II requires ongoing evidence of vulnerability management — including penetration testing evidence covering the audit period. A quarterly continuous testing programme that produces a cumulative report covering the full 12-month audit window is exactly what SOC 2 auditors ask for. The report demonstrates both that testing was conducted across the period and that findings were remediated promptly.
Yes, and this is a common path. Most teams start with a baseline pentest followed by quarterly release-scoped tests to get comfortable with the programme model. Once the team sees the value of catching findings at the feature level — before they reach production — the natural next step is integrating targeted tests into every major release. We design the programme to scale with your maturity and budget.
Still have questions?
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Book a scoping call. We will design a continuous testing programme that fits your release cadence, satisfies enterprise questionnaires, and produces the cumulative report your SOC 2 auditors need.