VAPT · Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing
Binary Minds’ VAPT team simulates real-world cyberattacks against your infrastructure, applications, and people — delivering actionable intelligence to harden your defences before a breach occurs.
Who it’s for
A scanner lists what might be wrong. A penetration test proves what an attacker can actually do with it. Most UAE organisations come to us for one of four reasons.
Testing Scope
From network infrastructure to mobile apps — we test every layer of your attack surface. Every engagement pairs automated scanning with manual exploitation by a named tester.
Simulate real-world attacks against your internal and external network infrastructure — firewalls, routers, switches, VPNs, and exposed services.
In-depth testing of web applications against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities — SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, broken authentication, and API security flaws.
Comprehensive security assessment of iOS and Android applications — insecure data storage, improper session handling, and reverse engineering risks.
Identify misconfigurations, exposed assets, and privilege escalation paths across on-premises servers, cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hybrid setups.
Test your human firewall through controlled phishing simulations, vishing, and pretexting campaigns — measuring employee security awareness.
Full-scope adversarial simulations that test your people, processes, and technology simultaneously — mimicking advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.
Our Methodology
A structured, industry-standard methodology aligned with PTES, OWASP, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
Define the engagement scope, rules of engagement, objectives, and testing windows with your team to ensure zero disruption to operations. An NDA and written authorisation are signed before testing starts.
Passive and active intelligence gathering — mapping your attack surface, identifying exposed assets, and profiling potential entry points — then automated and manual scanning to enumerate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and weaknesses across all in-scope systems.
Controlled exploitation of confirmed vulnerabilities to validate their real-world impact, severity, and exploitability without causing damage. We then assess the blast radius — how far an attacker could move laterally, escalate privileges, or exfiltrate data.
Detailed executive and technical reports with risk-rated findings, proof-of-concept evidence, and step-by-step remediation guidance — delivered within 5 working days of testing, followed by a free retest.
Critical findings are reported the same day by phone, not held for the final report. Testing can be scheduled outside UAE business hours.
What You Receive
Every engagement produces clear, actionable outputs that drive real security improvement — written for the board, the auditor and the engineer who has to fix it.
Engagement models
Scope is priced per target, not per day, so you know the cost before we start. Every option includes reporting, a debrief and a free retest.
Option
A single external, web, mobile or cloud test
Most popular
Meets PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and NESA testing cycles
Option
For product teams and high-change environments
All engagements are NDA-protected and delivered by our UAE-based team. Quoted in AED after a 30-minute scoping call.
Standards & Frameworks
Our testing methodologies and reporting are aligned to internationally recognised frameworks and UAE regulatory requirements.
Binary Minds operates under an ISO/IEC 27001:2022-certified ISMS. Tooling includes Burp Suite Professional, Nessus, Nmap, Metasploit, BloodHound and MobSF — always paired with manual testing.
FAQ
A vulnerability assessment uses authenticated scanners to list known weaknesses and missing patches quickly. A penetration test goes further: a tester manually exploits and chains those weaknesses to show what an attacker could actually reach. PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and NESA / UAE IA expect both, on different cycles.
An external network test for a typical SMB takes three to five working days; a web application or API test five to ten depending on size and user roles; internal tests and red-team exercises longer. Reports follow within 48 hours of the last day of testing.
We agree rules of engagement, testing windows and an emergency stop contact before starting. Denial-of-service tests are excluded unless you ask for them and destructive actions are never performed — we prove access and stop. Fragile environments are tested on a staging copy or outside business hours.
Yes. PCI DSS v4.0 Requirement 11 calls for annual external and internal penetration tests plus quarterly scans; ISO 27001 Annex A expects technical vulnerability management; the UAE IA standard and DIFC / ADGM regulators expect regular independent testing. Our attestation letters cite the specific requirement so your auditor can map them directly.
An executive summary for management, a technical report with CVSS v3.1 scores, proof-of-concept evidence and reproduction steps for each finding, and a remediation roadmap ordered by criticality and effort. We walk your team through it and retest critical and high findings free once fixed.
Testing is led by our Dubai-based team holding CEH and OSCP certifications, under an NDA and written authorisation. Data collected during testing stays in the UAE and is deleted after the retest period, in line with the UAE PDPL.
Know Your Risk. Fix It First.
Our certified ethical hackers are ready to identify and help you close every critical vulnerability — before a real attacker finds them. Get a scoped VAPT proposal within 24 hours.
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