Web Application Penetration Testing: The core test for any online store. We test your storefront, checkout, customer accounts, and the business logic behind pricing, discounts, baskets and returns, for issues such as injection flaws, broken authentication, insecure APIs and logic abuse that lets an attacker pay less, take over accounts or reach data they shouldn’t. Essential for every retailer, on every platform.

Network Penetration Testing: We assess the infrastructure behind your store, servers, firewalls, hosting and remote access, and we check the boundary around your cardholder data environment. Proper segmentation is what keeps your PCI DSS scope, and your risk, contained. Best suited to retailers with their own hosting, self-managed platforms or complex back-end estates.

Cloud Penetration Testing: We evaluate the cloud environments most stores now run on, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Microsoft 365, for the misconfigurations, over-broad permissions and exposed services that lead to breaches of customer data, order records and admin systems.

LLM / AI Penetration Testing: We test the AI tools retailers are adding to search, product recommendations, customer support and merchandising, targeting the threats traditional testing misses: prompt injection, data leakage, model manipulation and insecure integrations. Increasingly relevant as AI features move into the buying journey.

Social Engineering Testing: Your store is only as secure as the people with backend access. Phishing an admin, a developer or a support agent can hand an attacker the keys to your CMS or payment settings. We test how your team stands up to phishing, pretexting and other human-focused attacks, then help you close the gaps.

Mobile Application Penetration Testing: We test iOS and Android shopping apps for insecure data storage, weak encryption and API vulnerabilities, essential for any retailer selling through an app as well as the web.

PCI DSS: independent penetration testing to meet the standard’s requirement for annual testing and testing after significant change, covering both your applications and the segmentation around your cardholder data environment. We also help you get ahead of the client-side script and change-monitoring expectations introduced in PCI DSS v4.0.

Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus: hands-on assessment beyond the self-certified baseline, increasingly expected by partners and B2B customers.

ISO 27001: independent testing to evidence your information security controls.

SOC 2: supporting the security testing expected of platform and B2B commerce providers selling into larger customers.

UK GDPR & the Data Protection Act 2018: demonstrating appropriate technical measures for the customer and order data you hold.

Professional indemnity & cyber insurance: satisfying the security questions insurers now ask before they renew or quote.

Executive summary: A plain-English overview of what we tested, what we found, and what it means for your business, written so a non-technical reader can understand your risk position in a couple of minutes.

Risk-prioritised findings: Every vulnerability and misconfiguration we identify, rated by severity and real-world impact, so you know exactly what to fix first. No noise, no padding, just the issues that matter, in the order they matter.

Technical detail and proof of concept: For each finding, a clear explanation of the issue, proof-of-concept evidence showing how it could be exploited, and everything your team needs to reproduce and verify it.

Benchmarking against best practice: Where relevant, findings are mapped against CIS benchmarks and cloud provider best practice, so you can see exactly where your configuration drifts from a secure baseline.

Practical remediation advice: Actionable, specific guidance on how to fix each finding, not generic best-practice statements, but steps tailored to your environment. This is the part clients tell us they value most.

Debrief and support: The report isn’t the end of the conversation. We walk your team through the findings in a debrief session, answer their questions, and stay on hand as you work through remediation.

You’re launching or replatforming your store: test the new build before it’s exposed to real customers and real card details, not after.

PCI DSS requires it: the standard expects testing at least annually and after any significant change to your environment.

You’re preparing for an ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials assessment: these frameworks expect independent testing as part of certification.

A partner, acquiring bank or insurer is asking for it: due-diligence and renewal processes increasingly require evidence of penetration testing before anyone will proceed.

You’ve added new payment methods, integrations or third-party scripts: every new tag, plugin or connection can introduce vulnerabilities that weren’t there before.

You’ve had an incident or a near miss: verify the gap is closed and check for anything else an attacker may have reached, particularly if you suspect skimming.

It’s simply been a while: best practice is at least once a year. If you can’t remember your last test, you’re overdue.