SaaS & Software Development Penetration Testing

Your prospect’s security team will know it wasn’t AI generated. So will your auditor. Every finding is found and written by an engineer.

Application & API Security

Web apps, SPAs, REST/GraphQL APIs, webhook handlers, and OAuth/OIDC implementations. Business logic, not just OWASP Top 10.

Cloud & Infrastructure Testing

IAM policy review, container escape, Kubernetes misconfigurations, serverless function abuse, and storage exposure across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

CI/CD & Supply Chain Security

Pipeline injection, secrets-in-code detection, build artifact integrity, dependency analysis, and third-party integration security across your SDLC.

The Problem with Most Software Pentests

Your enterprise prospect’s security team and your SOC 2 auditor both want pentest evidence. Most vendors hand you a DAST scan with a logo on it. Both can tell when it’s real.

Scans Sold as Pentests

Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP against your login page is not a penetration test. It won’t find IDOR in your API, broken object-level authorization across tenant boundaries, race conditions in payment flows, or business logic flaws in invitation and permission systems.

Multi-Tenant Isolation Untested

Your architecture docs say tenant data is isolated. Has anyone tried to reach Tenant B’s data from Tenant A’s authenticated session, or checked for leakage through caching, logging, error messages, and unenforced API authorization?

The CI/CD Attack Surface

Hardcoded secrets in repos, permissive service account tokens, misconfigured GitHub Actions or Jenkins runners, and build artifacts with embedded credentials open the door to supply chain compromise. Raxis tests the SDLC from source control to deployment for malicious code injection and artifact tampering.

Reports That Block Deals

A prospect’s security team reads your pentest report as a measure of security maturity, not a vulnerability count. A thin scan report raises more questions than it answers.

What We Test in Software Environments

The attack surfaces that matter most to teams shipping production software.

Web Applications & SPAs

Authentication and session management, role-based access control bypass, CSRF/SSRF, injection, file upload abuse, and business logic flaws in invitations, billing, and role escalation. React, Angular, Vue, and server-rendered apps.

APIs & Microservices

BOLA/IDOR across REST and GraphQL endpoints, JWT manipulation, OAuth/OIDC flow abuse, rate limiting bypass, mass assignment, webhook signature forgery, and inter-service authentication weaknesses. Every endpoint, including the undocumented ones.

Cloud Infrastructure

IAM policy analysis, S3/Blob/GCS storage exposure, container escape from Docker and Kubernetes, serverless function abuse (Lambda, Cloud Functions), VPC segmentation, metadata service exploitation (IMDS), and infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

CI/CD Pipelines & Source Control

Secrets in repos and commit history, pipeline injection through PR workflows, build runner privilege escalation, artifact registry poisoning, dependency confusion, and overly permissive service account tokens in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and CircleCI.

Why Raxis for Software & SaaS Penetration Testing

Testers Who Know Software

OSCP-certified engineers who know a REST endpoint from a GraphQL mutation and test how your application handles auth, state, multi-tenancy, and data access.

Reports That Close Deals

Proof-of-concept exploits, clear remediation steps, and executive summaries written for the security team on the other side of your sales deal. It answers their questionnaire before they send it.

Findings Developers Can Fix

The specific endpoint, request/response detail, reproduction steps, and remediation written for developers. No generic “implement input validation” advice, just findings your team can drop into a Jira ticket.

SOC 2 and ISO 27001 Evidence

Findings map to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, ISO 27001 Annex A controls, and the questions in customer security questionnaires and vendor assessments.

Every Fix Retested

After you patch, Raxis retests to confirm the fix works without regressions, giving your auditor and your customer’s security team documented evidence of finding, fix, and verification.

Keep Pace with Releases

Annual pentests go stale after your next deploy. Raxis Attack (PTaaS) delivers continuous, AI-augmented testing with real-time results and unlimited retesting through the Raxis One portal.

The $0 Checkout

Our stories are based on real events encountered by Raxis engineers. Some details have been altered or omitted to protect customer identities.

Picture this: A software company on the brink of launching their flagship SaaS application. Marketing was counting down to go-live and the engineers were confident their CI/CD pipeline had caught every bug, but, before flipping the switch, they brought in Raxis to put the product through its paces as the final gate in their DevSecOps process.

Our web application pentester zeroed in on the checkout flow and noticed something familiar: the pricing logic was being calculated client-side, with no validation happening on the server. Using Burp Suite to intercept the request, our tester rewrote the total from full retail down to $0.00 and let the transaction fly. The server happily accepted it. The order processed, the payment confirmed at zero dollars, and had this been production, the product would have shipped, free of charge, to anyone clever enough to open a proxy.

While the web app pentester digested that finding, our external network tester was already at work. The server hosting the application was running a version of SSH with a high-risk, publicly exploitable CVE, a quiet welcome mat for any attacker with a working proof of concept.

Raxis reported on both issues in detail and with remediation recommendations, and the client got moving. Developers rebuilt the pricing logic to enforce server-side validation, the server team patched SSH, and, when Raxis returned for the complimentary retest, every finding came back remediated. The application launched on time, on budget, and most importantly, secure. That is the power of testing before production: catching the critical issues while they are still cheap to fix and turning a potential disaster into a clean, confident launch.

FAQ: Technology and SaaS Penetration Testing

What is penetration testing for software companies?

A hands-on simulated attack on your applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting systems. It finds exploitable flaws first and produces evidence for SOC 2 audits, ISO 27001 certification, and enterprise customer security reviews.

How is a Raxis software pentest different from a DAST scan?

A DAST scanner flags known vulnerability patterns. It can't test business logic, multi-tenant isolation, complex authorization chains, or API-specific flaws like BOLA/IDOR; Raxis engineers test those manually.

How do you test multi-tenant isolation?

From authenticated sessions across tenant boundaries, we attempt to reach other tenants' data through direct object references, API parameter manipulation, shared resource leakage (caching, logging, error messages), and authorization bypass at every endpoint, proving isolation holds at the data layer, not just the UI.

Will testing disrupt our development or production environments?

No. Raxis tests safely in staging, production-mirrored, or production environments, scopes out destructive operations, and stays in constant communication with your engineering team.

How often should software companies perform penetration testing?

At minimum annually or before major releases. Teams practicing continuous delivery use Raxis Attack (PTaaS), our Penetration Testing as a Service platform, to keep testing in step with their release cadence and their SOC 2 evidence current.

What certifications do Raxis penetration testers hold?

OSCP, CEH, GPEN, GFACT, and more, listed on our certifications page.

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