Penetration Testing for Cybersecurity and Global Compliance
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Penetration Testing: Why You Need It, When It’s Required, and Which Type Fits You
Protect your business with realistic, expert-led penetration testing. Our OSCP-certified ethical hackers simulate real-world attacks across websites, applications, networks, and cloud environments — far beyond what automated scanners can detect.
Penetration Testing Across All Major Compliance Frameworks
Penetration testing is required or strongly recommended across the core frameworks we support. As part of our Climb & Core service approach, we integrate pentesting at the right time in your journey — ensuring your security controls, audit evidence, and risk posture align with the standards you are targeting.
ISO 27001
While not explicitly mandated, pentesting is expected in practice to demonstrate the effectiveness of Annex A controls around vulnerability management, secure configuration, technical hardening, and continuous improvement.
SOC 2
Not formally required, but widely expected by auditors and customers. Pentesting strengthens evidence for CC6.x, CC7.x, and CC8.x security criteria and is considered a best practice for production systems.
GDPR & FADP
Both frameworks (GDPR Art. 32 and the Swiss FADP security obligations) require “appropriate technical and organisational measures.” Regular security testing — including pentesting — is a key expectation to demonstrate proactive, risk-based security.
HIPAA
For HIPAA-covered entities and business associates, penetration testing is a recommended part of the Security Rule’s technical safeguards and supports continuous risk assessment.
ISO 42001 (AI Management Systems)
For high-risk AI systems, the Act expects organisations to ensure robust cybersecurity, prevent model manipulation, and validate the security of data pipelines and infrastructure. Penetration testing is a proactive, aligned measure.
EU AI Act
360Vue provides capabilities to achieve SOC 2 compliance, focusing on security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy to meet the highest standards of data security and trust.
NIS2
Under NIS2, penetration testing becomes essential for demonstrating risk reduction, resilience, and the maturity of your technical and organisational security measures.
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Types of penetration testing:
Different compliance frameworks require different forms of security validation. To support GDPR, FADP, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, SOC 2, HIPAA, NIS2, and the EU AI Act, we offer a full range of penetration testing services tailored to your systems, data flows, and risk profile. Each test targets specific attack surfaces — applications, APIs, networks, cloud environments, or the human layer — ensuring your organisation meets the technical and organisational security expectations of modern compliance.
Application Security
Critical for frameworks that expect regular validation of applications, APIs, and exposed services — ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR/FADP, NIS2, HIPAA, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act.
Required for web platforms handling sensitive or personal data. Relevant to ISO 27001 (A.8, A.12), SOC 2 (CC6/CC7), GDPR Art. 32, NIS2, and HIPAA.
Important for apps processing or transmitting personal data — aligned with GDPR/FADP, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA.
Essential for SaaS, microservices, and AI systems dependent on secure data pipelines. Strongly expected in ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2, ISO 42001, and the EU AI Act.
Relevant when software is distributed to users or installed on endpoints. Commonly requested for ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA.
Network & Infrastructure Security
Used to validate the security of internal/external networks and cloud environments — expected across ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR/FADP, NIS2, and HIPAA.
Validates internet-facing assets and exposed attack surfaces. Key for ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, and HIPAA.
Tests lateral movement, segmentation, and internal security posture. Important in ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIS2.
A must-have today. Required as evidence for ISO 27001 (A.5.1, A.8, A.12), SOC 2 (CC6/CC7), NIS2, and GDPR Art. 32 (data integrity & availability).
Ensures hardened perimeter security — relevant to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIS2.
Required when remote or privileged access is part of the environment — ISO 27001, NIS2, and HIPAA.
Supports ISO 27001 and NIS2 by validating router, switch, and device configurations.
Human & Process Security
Reflects the organisational controls expected by GDPR/FADP, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, and HIPAA.
Tests organisational readiness and human-layer security. Relevant to ISO 27001 (A.6, A.7, A.12), SOC 2 (CC6/CC7), GDPR Art. 32, and NIS2.
Recommended across modern frameworks as evidence of continuous security awareness — ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS2, GDPR/FADP, HIPAA.
Useful for organisations with on-prem infrastructure; relevant for ISO 27001 and NIS2 but not required for most SaaS companies.
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Our Cybersecurity Roles, including CISO as a Service, Security Maturity Assessment, Penetration Testing, and SecOps as a Service, offer comprehensive solutions to enhance your organization’s security posture and resilience against evolving cyber threats.
