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Application SecurityPenetration Testing

What Is API Penetration Testing?

API penetration testing attacks your endpoints the way an attacker does: forging IDs, swapping tokens, smuggling fields. Here is what it covers, what it finds, and why scanners can't.

Oct 27, 20247 min

engineering

Cut RDS Costs by 50% with Aurora Serverless V2 Idle Connection Fix

In a recent migration from a standard RDS DB instance to Aurora RDS PostgreSQL Serverless V2, we encountered an unexpected issue a significant and unexplained increase in Aurora Serverless V2 connections. This anomaly led to spikes in resource utilization, specifically memory, and caused a noticeabl

Oct 25, 20244 min

Vulnerability Management

What is Vulnerability Management? Compliance, Challenges, & Solutions

Is your vulnerability management game on point? If it’s not, you’re handing attackers an open invitation. And if you believe that merely using a vulnerability scanner qualifies as effective management, it’s time to reassess your strategy. Everyone’s doing vulnerability scanning, but that’s just step

Oct 21, 202422 min

Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing Frequency: How Often Is Enough?

Is your penetration testing completed for this quarter? If it’s not you are giving an open door to Malicious actors to breach the data. Do you know 75% of companies perform penetration tests to measure their security posture or for compliance reasons. According to the National Institute of Standards

Oct 18, 202410 min

Penetration Testing

How to Prepare for a Penetration Test: A Pre-Engagement Checklist

Good prep decides how useful a pentest is. Use this pre-engagement playbook to define scope, set rules of engagement, provision access, and brief your team before kickoff.

Oct 12, 20246 min

Compliance

Strobes Penetration Testing Compliance For Audits and Assessments

With the rise of cybersecurity threats, keeping up with industry rules is important but can be difficult. That’s where Strobes Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) comes into play. This innovative solution is transforming how companies manage penetration testing compliance, audits, and assessmen

Oct 9, 20249 min

PTaaS

How PTaaS Enhances Security Collaboration Between Security Teams and Developers

Picture a scenario: A critical vulnerability is discovered in a production application. The security team scrambles to assess the impact while developers, caught off-guard, rush to implement a fix. This all-too-common situation highlights the historical disconnect between security and development te

Oct 8, 202412 min

Penetration Testing

Bug Bounty vs Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS): Complementary or Competing Approaches

Imagine you’re the CISO of a rapidly growing tech company. Your infrastructure is expanding daily, and with each new line of code, the potential attack surface grows. How do you ensure your systems remain secure? In the debate of bug bounty vs penetration testing, two popular approaches have emerged

Oct 7, 20249 min

Penetration TestingVulnerability Management

What Is VAPT? Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Explained

VAPT combines broad vulnerability assessment with deep penetration testing in one engagement. Here is what it covers, why both halves matter, and how to tell a real VAPT from a relabeled scan.

Sep 27, 20245 min

Penetration Testing

Decoding the Penetration Testing Process: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this cyber world, data protection is a main goal for every organization. In India, corporations spend an average of $2.8 million annually on cyber security. According to the ETCISO annual survey, the average security budget allocation to Indian industries is 7.6% of its total IT budget. As compar

Sep 26, 202410 min

Vulnerability Management

Why Vulnerability Scanning Isn’t Enough in 2025?

If you're relying on vulnerability scanning alone to keep your organization safe, it's time to ask a critical question: Is it enough? Many organizations scan their systems regularly, get lists of vulnerabilities, and patch what they can. But with the increasing complexity of cyberattacks, can you co

Sep 25, 202412 min

Penetration Testing

Penetration Testing Standards: PTES, OSSTMM, NIST, and OWASP

PTES, OSSTMM, NIST SP 800-115, and the OWASP guides are the four standards behind professional pentesting. Here is what each covers, how they stack, and how to spot a vendor faking it.

Sep 12, 20245 min

Security Insights

What Is API Penetration Testing?

Cut RDS Costs by 50% with Aurora Serverless V2 Idle Connection Fix

What is Vulnerability Management? Compliance, Challenges, &amp; Solutions

Penetration Testing Frequency: How Often Is Enough?

How to Prepare for a Penetration Test: A Pre-Engagement Checklist

Strobes Penetration Testing Compliance For Audits and Assessments

How PTaaS Enhances Security Collaboration Between Security Teams and Developers

Bug Bounty vs Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS): Complementary or Competing Approaches

What Is VAPT? Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Explained

Decoding the Penetration Testing Process​: A Step-by-Step Guide

Why Vulnerability Scanning Isn’t Enough in 2025?

Penetration Testing Standards: PTES, OSSTMM, NIST, and OWASP

What is Vulnerability Management? Compliance, Challenges, & Solutions

Decoding the Penetration Testing Process: A Step-by-Step Guide