The full answer
Penetration testing looks at your product the way an attacker would. Automated scanners find known vulnerabilities in code, dependencies and infrastructure, and manual testing probes the logic that scanners miss, such as one user being able to see another user's data.
Testing is guided by the OWASP Top 10 and the OWASP API Security Top 10, covering authentication and session handling, access control, input validation, data exposure, API security and cloud configuration.
Each finding is rated by severity, fixed by the team and retested. You receive a summary of what was tested, what was found and how it was resolved, which is useful for enterprise customers' security reviews.
Some clients also commission an independent third-party penetration test, for example to satisfy a regulator or an enterprise buyer. We support that by providing access, documentation and fast remediation of anything the external testers find.
Security testing is not limited to the release window. Dependency scanning and static analysis can run automatically in the CI/CD pipeline on every change, catching many common issues before code reaches staging, so the pre-release VAPT focuses on deeper problems.