How we run continuous pentesting.
In full detail.
No vague phases, no marketing-speak. The full pipeline, every guarantee, every artifact you receive at every step. If something here looks different from another vendor, ask them why.
Six phases. One continuous loop.
Every BugThrive engagement runs this lifecycle. Continuous engagements never leave the cycle — they re-enter discovery on every meaningful change.
Scoping & onboarding
We meet your engineering and security leads, define in-scope assets, agree on testing constraints, and provision platform access.
Discovery
Automated mapping of your external attack surface, internal asset inventory, dependency graph, and authentication boundaries.
Baseline testing
Automated probes across all in-scope surfaces — SAST on connected repos, DAST against staging/production endpoints, dependency analysis, secret scanning.
Manual exploitation
Senior testers probe business logic, multi-step flows, federated auth edge cases, and any surface that automated tools cannot meaningfully assess.
Reporting & routing
Each finding lands in your dashboard the moment it's verified — and is routed to the responsible team via your existing workflow tools.
Retest & verification
When you ship a fix, the original PoC re-runs automatically. If the exploit fails, a human tester confirms the close within hours.
Contractual guarantees — not aspirations.
These are written into the engagement. If we miss any of them, you get the engagement period refunded.
Zero false positives in your queue
Every finding is hand-verified with a working PoC before it appears in your dashboard.
Full audit trail on every action
Every probe, every severity bump, every retest is logged with timestamp, tester, and outcome.
Kill switch always available
One command pauses all probes — useful during incident response or sensitive launches.
Named human accountability
Each engagement has a primary tester and secondary reviewer. Neither rotates without notice.
Every surface a modern attacker uses.
Coverage is defined per engagement — we'll never bill you for surfaces you don't have. But here's the full menu.
Web applications
OWASP Top 10, business logic, auth flows, session management, browser-level abuse
APIs
REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSocket — authorization, rate limiting, mass assignment, idempotency
Mobile
iOS and Android binaries — local storage, cert pinning, deep links, reverse engineering
Cloud accounts
AWS, GCP, Azure — IAM trust paths, container escape, privilege escalation, supply chain
Network
External perimeter, internal pentest, AD tiering, segmentation validation
Smart contracts
Solidity audits, reentrancy, oracle abuse, cross-chain message-passing, flash-loan vectors
Source code
Manual SAST review, dependency analysis, secret hunting, CI/CD pipeline audit
Red team & social
Phishing campaigns, pretexting, physical recon, full adversary emulation
The humans behind every engagement.
We do not crowdsource. Every tester is a vetted employee or long-term contractor who passed a multi-stage technical and behavioral assessment. Here's that pipeline.
of applicants make it through the full pipeline.
Severity is a call. Not a CVSS lookup.
CVSS is the starting point. Final severity is adjusted by asset criticality, business impact, and exploitability. You get to disagree — and we log the discussion.
Active exploit path to crown-jewel data or full account takeover.
Exploit path requiring minimal preconditions; significant business impact.
Exploitable but constrained — auth required, limited blast radius.
Information disclosure or hardening gap; no direct exploit path.
Defense-in-depth observation; recommended but not required to fix.
Your data, your retention, your kill switch.
We treat customer data as a liability. The less we hold, the better for both of us. Here's exactly how we handle it.
Full security disclosureReady to scope an engagement?
30-minute call, mutual NDA, named tester within 48 hours, first findings inside the first week.