Continuous pentest gives you access to offensive security expertise via a monthly subscription. Whether you are a SaaS team shipping new code every week or an enterprise requiring monthly review of various areas of the internal network or internet facing continuous pentest can help you stay on top of security vulnerabilities as the environment evolves.
Having access to security consultants on a monthly basis with a wide background of security testing helps reduce friction for each security test and a simple Slack/Teams message may be the only output required to set a goal for the current month's allocated continuous pentest delivery.
Startup / SaaS Focused
Many startups or SaaS companies these days are deploying new code every day which removes the barrier for taking ideas into reality. As code ships fast finding security vulnerabilities before they hit production can be problematic. Add the fact that a one-off pentests may cost more than the monthly recurring revenue and that the report may be outdated before it reaches the your inbox.
Continuous pentest solves this by allocating a specified amount of hour each month to verify that the attack surface of the company has been reviewed and assessed. This helps verify that the security state of the code repository actually matches the state of the deployed product. Reporting of vulnerabilities is highly customizable, do you prefer GitHub issues? Slack messages? we adapt.
Continuous pentest in combination with that yearly one-off pentest provides both continuous security assessment as well as the deep focused full review that traditional pentest offers.
SMB / Large enterprises Focused
A single annual pentest rarely reflects the constant ongoing changes on a internal network or internet facing surface of a SMB or large enterprise. Continuous pentest provides access to security consultants on a monthly basis with expertise in all of the offensive security realms. No more long lead time before a security review is performed on a new internet exposed services as consultants are already available to you each month.
While the annual pentest gives a thorough review of the current state, the report that follows may require months, sometimes years of work before all vulnerabilities are mitigated. With continuous pentest you will get a continuous stream of manageable high impact vulnerabilities. Provide the consultants access to internal ticketing systems and you will have the possibility to quickly route vulnerabilities to internal personnel without attending a lengthy pentest debrief meeting.
Summary
Pentesting should be accessible to every company, from startups to large enterprises, making it easy to review specific parts of a product, network or service with the expertise you need when you need it. Reporting should be clear and accessible.
Continuous pentest actually solves all of the above.