Hackrate Continuous Penetration Testing

Hackrate Continuous Penetration Testing provides organizations with a coordinated 12-month security testing program designed for environments where applications, infrastructure, and security priorities continuously change.

Instead of purchasing disconnected penetration tests throughout the year, customers establish an annual testing framework covering governance, testing capacity, reporting, and recurring planning. Each target is evaluated individually, and the customer selects the appropriate testing model based on sensitivity, exposure, architecture, recent changes, and business risk.

The service supports customer-controlled applications, APIs, infrastructure, and digital assets running on or using Amazon Web Services (AWS), including workloads built on services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon S3, and other AWS services.

How It Works

1. Annual Security Testing Roadmap: Hackrate and the customer review relevant applications, environments, known risks, planned releases, previous testing, and available testing capacity to establish the annual framework.

2. Monthly Risk-Based Planning: Recurring planning sessions review completed testing, unresolved vulnerabilities, remediation progress, significant environmental changes, and current business risks to determine upcoming testing priorities.

3. Target-Specific Testing Model: For every approved target, the customer chooses the most appropriate delivery model:

• Hackrate Internal Team: Restricted assessments performed by assigned Hackrate pentesters for sensitive applications, internal environments, and systems requiring controlled access.
• Selected Elite Ethical Hackers: Invitation-only testing using selected ethical hackers to provide diverse attacker perspectives and creative exploration.
• Hybrid Testing: Combines internal specialist expertise with selected Elite Ethical Hackers for targets requiring both contextual depth and broader attacker perspectives.

No target or technical information is shared with Elite Ethical Hackers unless explicitly approved by the customer.

4. Security Testing: Each activity receives its own scope, objectives, participants, access model, timeline, rules of engagement, and reporting requirements before testing begins.

5. Centralized Findings: Validated vulnerabilities from approved testing activities are managed through the Hackrate Ethical Hacking Platform, providing a centralized view across targets and testing models.

6. Remediation and Review: Customers can assign findings to responsible teams, monitor remediation status, maintain supporting evidence, and use results to determine future testing priorities.

Key Benefits

• Continuous Risk-Based Testing: Redirect testing capacity toward applications and environments where security assessment provides the greatest value.
• Flexible Testing Models: Select internal, invitation-only crowdsourced, or hybrid testing independently for each target.
• Annual Testing Capacity: Establish contracted testing capacity within a predictable 12-month framework.
• Monthly Prioritization: Adapt upcoming assessments to releases, architecture changes, incidents, emerging risks, and remediation activity.
• AWS Workload Assessment: Assess customer-controlled applications, APIs, infrastructure, and workloads hosted on or using AWS.
• Centralized Vulnerability Management: Review findings, ownership, evidence, communication, and remediation status through the Hackrate platform.
• Program-Level Visibility: Maintain a consolidated view of assessments, vulnerabilities, remediation progress, recurring weaknesses, and future priorities.

A Coordinated Annual Testing Program

Continuous Pentest is not continuous automated scanning or testing performed every day. It is a recurring, risk-based penetration testing program where individual security assessments are planned and executed according to the annual framework and current monthly priorities.

The exact annual capacity, testing models, scope, reporting requirements, deliverables, and commercial terms are defined individually for each customer.