PTaaS

Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

Digital Roxy PTaaS is continuous pentesting on a subscription. Always-on automated coverage plus quarterly manual deep-tests plus unlimited retests plus a dedicated Slack channel. Built for SaaS teams that ship weekly and cannot wait 12 months for the next annual pentest.

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PTaaS is penetration testing delivered continuously, not annually.

Penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) moves pentest from an annual compliance event to a continuous security practice. The problem PTaaS solves is regression. You pentest in January. Your engineering team ships 47 releases between February and November. By the November audit, half the attack surface the January pentest covered no longer exists in the same form. Point-in-time pentests cannot keep up with teams that deploy weekly.

Digital Roxy PTaaS combines three things no traditional pentest provider bundles together. First, always-on automated coverage: Nuclei, custom templates, and continuous attack surface discovery running daily. Second, quarterly manual deep-tests by the same OSCP-certified engineers who run our point-in-time engagements. Third, unlimited retests inside a dedicated Slack channel, so when your team ships a fix Tuesday afternoon, we can verify it Thursday morning. The result is a security program that moves at the same speed as your release cycle.

PTaaS Findings

What Continuous Coverage Actually Catches

PTaaS finds different issues than annual pentests, specifically because the coverage window is continuous.

High

Regressions from Feature Work

Your team ships a feature. The feature introduces an IDOR regression in a user endpoint your last pentest found clean. In PTaaS, that regression is caught within a week, not a year.

High

Shadow API Endpoints

New API endpoints ship without going through documentation review or security gates. Continuous attack surface monitoring catches them as they appear in production, long before the next annual scope conversation.

High

Third-Party Dependency Exposures

A vulnerability is published in a library you depend on. Continuous coverage identifies the exposure within hours of public disclosure, not during the quarterly patching cycle.

Medium

Configuration Drift in Cloud

S3 buckets that were private become public because someone changed a Terraform default. Security Groups that were restricted get opened to fix a deployment issue and never re-locked. PTaaS monitoring catches these same-day.

High

Subdomain Takeovers

Decommissioned services leave DNS records pointing to cloud resources that get reassigned to other customers. Continuous subdomain monitoring catches takeover windows before they are exploited.

Critical

Exposed .git and Source Code Leaks

Developer accidentally commits .env to a public repo. Developer pushes a .git directory to production behind-the-scenes. Continuous source code monitoring across GitHub, GitLab, and paste sites catches disclosures before attackers find them.

Critical

Leaked Credentials on Public Repos

API keys, database credentials, and private tokens posted publicly on GitHub, GitLab, and Pastebin. Continuous monitoring against your organization's key patterns catches these, often within minutes of disclosure.

High

New CVEs Against Your Stack

A new RCE is published for the exact version of your web framework. Continuous monitoring matches new CVEs against your known stack and alerts before the mass-exploitation wave arrives.

Methodology

How PTaaS Works Operationally

PTaaS is a program, not a project. Here is the operational model.

ONBOARD

Week 1: Onboarding & Baseline

Dedicated Slack channel goes live. Attack surface is inventoried: domains, IP ranges, cloud accounts, mobile apps, public repositories. Baseline continuous scanning starts. Initial attack surface report delivered end of week.

CONT

Ongoing: Continuous Automated Coverage

Daily automated scanning with Nuclei, Burp Suite Enterprise, cloud configuration monitors, subdomain watchers, and code-leakage monitors. Every finding flows to the Slack channel with a severity and context. Critical findings escalate to phone/pager within the hour.

DEEP

Quarterly: Manual Deep-Test

Once per quarter, a full manual pentest against the current attack surface. Same methodology as a point-in-time pentest (PTES, OWASP). Delivered with executive summary, technical report, and CVSS scoring. Replaces your annual pentest with four per year.

RETEST

Continuous Retest

Fix shipped Tuesday, retest confirmed Thursday. Every finding gets re-verified after your team ships the remediation. No separate retest scope, no extra invoice, no waiting until the next quarterly window.

SUPPORT

Always-on Slack Support

Your engineering team asks security questions directly to our testers through the dedicated Slack channel. Code review on security-critical PRs, interpretation of CVEs against your stack, and guidance on security architecture decisions. 24-hour response SLA on business days.

ATTEST

Annual Third-Party Attestation

Once per year, PTaaS clients receive a signed third-party attestation letter that satisfies SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS 11.4, and HIPAA continuous testing requirements. One annual artifact that covers every compliance audit.

Toolset

The PTaaS Platform Stack

PTaaS runs on the same offensive tooling as our point-in-time pentests, plus a continuous coverage layer.

Continuous Attack Surface Monitoring

Subdomain discovery, certificate transparency monitoring, port scanning, and new-service detection running daily across your attack surface.

Nuclei + Custom Templates

Template-driven continuous vulnerability scanning. Custom templates developed for your tech stack catch framework-specific issues that generic templates miss.

Burp Suite Enterprise

Scheduled authenticated scanning of your web and API surface. Daily coverage across the surface Burp Suite Enterprise knows about.

Cloud Configuration Drift Monitoring

Prowler/ScoutSuite running daily against your cloud accounts. Drift alerts flow to Slack the same day a configuration changes from secure to insecure.

Secret & Code Leakage Monitoring

GitGuardian-equivalent scanning across GitHub, GitLab, paste sites, and breach dumps. Alerts on credentials matching your organization patterns.

Findings Dashboard + SLA Tracking

Web dashboard showing every finding, every status, and SLA tracking against your defined remediation windows. Feeds into your Jira, Linear, or Asana.

Pricing

PTaaS Engagement Tiers

Three engagement sizes. Every quote is fixed-price after a 15-minute scoping call. No hourly billing.

PTaaS Startup

For seed-to-Series-A SaaS startups. Focused attack surface, one web app, one API.

From $1,950 / month

Continuous automated coverage
Quarterly manual deep-test
Unlimited retests
Dedicated Slack channel
Findings dashboard
Annual attestation letter

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PTaaS Growth

For Series B+ SaaS and mid-market companies. Multi-app, multi-service attack surface.

From $3,950 / month

Everything in Startup
Up to 10 assets in scope
Mobile app coverage (iOS + Android)
Cloud configuration monitoring
Source code leakage monitoring
SOC 2 Type II evidence package
Engineering Slack code review on security PRs

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PTaaS Enterprise

For regulated enterprises. Unlimited asset scope, dedicated engineering team, custom SLAs.

From $7,950 / month

Everything in Growth
Unlimited assets in scope
Dedicated named engineers
Sub-1-hour critical-finding SLA
PCI DSS + HIPAA evidence package
Quarterly executive security reviews
24/7 on-call support

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FAQ

PTaaS Questions, Answered Directly

An annual pentest is a point-in-time snapshot: you get one deep assessment per year. PTaaS is a continuous program: automated coverage runs daily, manual deep-tests run quarterly, and retests happen immediately when your team ships a fix. If your team ships code infrequently and only needs compliance attestation once a year, annual pentest is the right fit. If your team ships weekly and you need security coverage that keeps up, PTaaS is the right fit.

Yes. PTaaS delivers an annual attestation letter that satisfies SOC 2 CC7.1 and CC4.1 continuous testing expectations, PCI DSS 4.0 Requirement 11.4 (when the quarterly deep-tests cover cardholder data environment), and HIPAA Security Rule evaluation requirements. Many auditors now prefer PTaaS evidence over annual pentest evidence because it demonstrates a continuous security practice rather than a once-a-year event.

Both. PTaaS includes a findings dashboard (web-based) showing every finding, status, CVSS score, and SLA. The dashboard integrates with Jira, Linear, Asana, and Slack. The dedicated Slack channel is where real-time conversation happens: critical disclosures, clarifying questions on findings, retest confirmations, and security architecture questions from your engineering team.

Digital Roxy OSCP-certified offensive engineers, the same team that runs our point-in-time pentests. PTaaS clients get a named primary tester plus a backup tester, so there is continuity across quarters. The manual deep-tests are as rigorous as a point-in-time engagement, delivered four times per year instead of once.

Critical findings (CVSS 9.0+) are disclosed within one business hour through the dedicated Slack channel. PTaaS Enterprise clients get a sub-1-hour SLA with on-call escalation to phone/pager 24/7. All clients get real-time disclosure; the SLA is the maximum response window, not the typical response time.

Yes. PTaaS contracts are month-to-month by default. Annual contracts are available at a discount for clients who prefer predictable budgeting. Cancellation requires 30 days notice. There are no termination fees. Any work in progress at cancellation is completed under the original scope.

Week 1: kickoff call, scope definition, Slack channel setup, read-only access provisioning for cloud accounts and web applications, and initial attack surface inventory. Week 2: baseline automated scanning begins, first continuous findings start flowing to Slack. Week 3-4: first subset of manual testing. Quarter 1 manual deep-test kicks off roughly at the 30-day mark. No long onboarding; you start seeing findings in week two.

Yes, we complement bug bounty programs rather than replace them. Bug bounty programs are good at finding a broad range of issues from a broad set of testers. PTaaS is better at systematic coverage, authorization matrix testing, and business logic testing that bounty programs typically miss. Many clients run both. Findings from PTaaS feed into the bug bounty exclusion list to avoid duplicate payouts.

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