Most studios treat security as an upsell — or skip it entirely. We come from a security background, so every app we ship is penetration-tested by CREST-certified testers before it touches production. Findings are fixed and re-verified. No extra invoice.
● CREST-certified testers● Manual, not just scans● Remediation included
● Why CREST matters
Tested by people who prove it.
CREST is the international accreditation body for the penetration testing industry. CREST-certified testers have demonstrated their skills against a rigorous, independent standard — and the firms behind them are held to verified processes and ethics.
In practice it means a real human adversary tested your app, not a box that ran a scanner and emailed a PDF. That’s the difference between “we ran a tool” and “we tried to break in.”
What you get
A manual penetration test by certified testers
A clear, prioritised findings report
Every issue remediated and re-verified
Sign-off before production launch
● Secure SDLC
Security at every stage.
Security isn’t a phase at the end. It runs through the whole build — from the first whiteboard session to the final retest before launch.
01
Threat modelling
Before code, we map trust boundaries, data flows, and abuse cases. We design out whole classes of bug.
02
Secure build
Secure-by-default architecture, least privilege, and safe defaults baked into the engineering, not patched after.
03
Penetration test
CREST-certified testers attack the build like an adversary would — manual testing, not just an automated scan.
04
Remediation
Findings are triaged by severity and fixed. You get a clear report, in plain English, of what we found and changed.
05
Retest
We re-verify every fix. Nothing ships to production with an open finding from the original test.
● What we test for
The OWASP Top 10, and then some.
We test against the OWASP Top 10 as a baseline and go beyond it — chaining findings the way a real attacker would. A sample of what we probe:
Injection
SQL, NoSQL, command, and template injection across every input path.
Broken access control
IDOR, privilege escalation, and missing authorisation on protected resources.
Authentication
Session handling, token security, MFA bypass, and credential-stuffing exposure.
Misconfiguration
Hardening gaps, verbose errors, default creds, and insecure cloud settings.
Injection-to-RCE
Deserialisation, SSRF, XXE, and chains that turn a small flaw into a big one.
Data exposure
Sensitive data in transit and at rest, logging leaks, and over-broad APIs.
Included · $0 extra
Not an add-on. The default.
A standalone penetration test from a specialist firm can cost thousands. With AppTheory it’s built into every engagement at no extra charge — because shipping insecure software isn’t a service we’re willing to offer.
Builds pentested
100%
Extra cost
$0
Testing
Manual
Findings
Fixed + retested
Ship it secure.
Every build comes with the pentest. See pricing, or talk to us about your project and how we’d secure it.