What Is Pentesting as a Service and How Does It Work?

Tozetta's goal is to make pentesting accessible for every organization. That's why we started a blog series in which we take you step by step through the world of pentesting. This is the second blog in a series of four. This blog is about Pentesting as a Service. Curious about the first blog? Read more here about what pentesting is and why it's important.

After this blog, we hope you'll be informed about:

• What Pentesting as a Service is

What the benefits are of monthly pentesting

What pentest as a service can mean for your organization

How Does Pentesting as a Service Work?

Pentesting isn't always accessible for every business. After all, a thorough pentest can already take several weeks, which drives up the costs considerably. Despite the intention being there, the budget simply isn't there to carry out a pentest. Penetration testing as a service is a subscription service in which clients receive a monthly pentest budget. You pay a relatively low monthly fee and get pentest hours in return. Businesses can take out a pentest subscription and thereby test their cyber security every month. Penetration testing as a service offers a flexible, scalable and cost-efficient alternative to a thorough one-off pentest.

What Are the Benefits of a Pentest Subscription?

For some businesses, it's cost-efficient to make smaller investments each month. Yet pentesting as a service isn't only interesting for smaller businesses. Software companies, or other businesses that regularly roll out changes to their digital environment, also benefit from a pentest subscription. Besides carrying out a thorough pentest a few times a year, a few hours can also be deployed monthly. For example, a software developer could have releases or integrations checked for vulnerabilities. This way, the cyber security of the solutions is also safeguarded between the larger pentest assignments. We've summarized the benefits of a pentest subscription below! Flexibility and scalability

By taking out penetration testing as a service, businesses can manage their cyber security in a flexible and scalable way. With a subscription, clients can keep their cyber security up to date at their own pace and budget. In addition, it's also possible to increase the budget and frequency of the pentests as cyber security requirements grow.

Cost efficiency

With a subscription to penetration testing as a service, it's possible to lower costs. Unlike carrying out a pentest as a one-off — where costs are incurred for carrying out the test, analyzing the results, and drawing up a report — these costs are reduced with a subscription.

Continuous monitoring and reporting

Penetration testing as a service also offers the option to continuously keep an eye on cyber security. Businesses can also choose to receive a monthly report with the results of the pentests, so they're always informed about their cyber security status. With its Hacking as a Service subscription, Tozetta takes monitoring to the next level. Want to know what our cyber security services can do for you? Read more here!

Improving Cyber Security

If you've also read blog one, we've already covered quite a bit of ground. We now know:

What pentesting is

• Why pentesting is important

• What PaaS (Pentesting as a Service) is

• What a pentest subscription can mean for your organization

Through a subscription with available monthly pentest hours, Tozetta enables clients to continuously keep checking their environments for vulnerabilities. Besides the option to carry out a pentest every month, Tozetta also offers 24/7 security monitoring within this Hacking as a Service subscription.

Want to know more? Read our next blog in the series, or go to our Hacking as a Service page!

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