Our web application penetration testing service provides a rigorous examination of your application's security posture, uncovering hidden weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.
We go beyond simple scans, simulating real-world attack scenarios to identify vulnerabilities and provide actionable remediation advice.
Ensure your web application aligns with industry best practices and regulatory requirements, building trust with users and stakeholders.
Our web application penetration testing service delivers more than just a list of vulnerabilities. We provide clear, prioritised, and actionable recommendations, tailored to your specific environment and business needs. This allows you to:
Web application penetration testing is an authorised, simulated attack against a web application to identify vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), broken authentication, and business logic flaws. Testing goes deeper than automated scanners by combining manual exploitation with security-tool automation, so findings reflect what's genuinely exploitable in your environment, not theoretical CVEs.
Our web application testing covers injection flaws (SQL, command, LDAP, XXE), cross-site scripting (reflected, stored, DOM-based), broken authentication and session management, insecure direct object references (IDOR), server-side request forgery (SSRF), business logic abuse, authorisation bypasses, and insecure API interactions used by the application.
We test against the OWASP Top 10 as a baseline, then extend into custom business logic scenarios that automated scanners can't reason about - which is where the highest-impact vulnerabilities usually hide.
We recommend testing whichever environment most closely mirrors production - usually a dedicated staging or UAT environment that shares the same code, configuration, and integrations as live. Production testing is possible for read-only assessments or when staging doesn't exist, but it introduces risk of business disruption and complicates destructive test cases such as data injection.
Our team scopes each engagement to match your risk tolerance, deployment model, and compliance drivers, and can test production safely where required.
Unauthenticated testing simulates an external attacker with no credentials - it covers everything an anonymous visitor can reach, including the login page itself, public endpoints, and exposed APIs. Authenticated testing uses valid user credentials at different privilege levels (standard user, admin, tenant A vs tenant B) to test the far larger attack surface behind the login.
Because most real-world exploits target authenticated functionality, we recommend testing both - the depth of authenticated testing is often where the most critical findings surface.
Yes. The OWASP Top 10 is a baseline, not a ceiling. Every web application engagement we deliver covers the current OWASP Top 10 categories (broken access control, cryptographic failures, injection, insecure design, security misconfiguration, vulnerable components, authentication failures, software and data integrity, security logging failures, and SSRF), plus vulnerability classes OWASP doesn't call out - including business logic abuse, race conditions, and multi-tenancy bypasses. Reports map each finding to OWASP category and CVSS severity so remediation is straightforward.
For most Australian organisations, the baseline is annual testing of production applications, plus additional testing after any significant change - major feature releases, framework upgrades, authentication changes, or integration with new third parties. High-risk applications (customer portals handling payment data, healthcare records, or personal information under Privacy Act obligations) and applications subject to PCI DSS often justify semi-annual or continuous testing.
Our team helps clients build a testing cadence aligned to release velocity and compliance drivers rather than defaulting to a once-a-year exercise.
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