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Your pentesting model is not working, because if it’s working, then why are you still discovering critical issues between test cycles?
Why do the same categories of vulnerabilities show up year after year?
Why does every major release introduce new blind spots your last assessment never saw?
Why do the same categories of vulnerabilities show up year after year?
As part of Ship Week, we’re introducing Pentesting as a Service, a model designed to give you continuous offensive coverage without expanding your headcount. PTaaS is built around risk-oriented offensive testing, where threat scenarios are enumerated before testing begins and validation is aligned to real attack paths, instead of generic payload execution.
Hiring experienced pentesters is expensive, slow, and competitive. Even when you find the right talent, onboarding takes time, and a single hire rarely gives you the full range of offensive depth you actually need.
Pentesting as a Service removes that bottleneck.
Instead of building an internal red team from scratch, you extend your existing security function with specialists who already know how to break complex systems. That shift gives you immediate leverage:
You’re not waiting months to close a capability gap. You’re increasing offensive coverage now.
The result is broader visibility across your applications, faster testing cycles aligned with engineering velocity, and stronger assurance that critical paths have been pressure-tested by people who think like real attackers.
Event-based pentesting was built for slower systems and predictable release cycles. In modern environments where APIs evolve weekly, cloud configurations shift dynamically, and services deploy continuously, that model creates a structural gap between exposure and validation.
When testing happens at fixed intervals, findings represent a moment in time. By the time remediation is complete, new code paths may already exist, permissions may have shifted, and additional integrations may have expanded the attack surface. The assessment becomes historical documentation rather than a current risk signal.
Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS) closes that gap by aligning offensive testing with engineering velocity. Instead of concentrating effort into isolated engagements, PTaaS enables continuous, iterative validation tied directly to system change. That validation is guided by enumerated threat scenarios derived from architectural walkthroughs and feature-level risk analysis. As new capabilities are introduced, risks are mapped to those features and translated into focused security test cases.
This approach allows you to:
By reducing the time between vulnerability introduction and verification, PTaaS directly lowers exposure windows. It also breaks the recurring cycle many CISOs see in annual assessments, where similar issue categories reappear because controls were verified once but never pressure-tested as the environment evolved.
The goal is not to increase testing frequency for its own sake. It is to ensure that what changes is tested when it changes, and validated before attackers have the opportunity to exploit it.
Continuous offensive testing only works if it is structured, traceable, and aligned with how your teams ship software. Without coordination, continuous quickly turns into disconnected activity.
The Pentest Orchestrator is the operational control layer behind PTaaS. It is not another scanner and not a replacement for human testing. It is the system that coordinates offensive efforts across applications, releases, and remediation cycles.
At a high level, the Orchestrator:
Instead of managing pentesting as a series of isolated engagements, you manage it as a governed program. The Pentest Orchestrator maintains traceability between enumerated threat scenarios, defined test cases, remediation actions, and retesting cycles. This ensures offensive testing remains structured, risk-aligned, and measurable across releases.
The result is not just more testing, but controlled and accountable offensive validation embedded into your security operations.
PTaaS does not approach testing as a volume exercise. Offensive specialists begin by enumerating application features, trust boundaries, and data flows. Through structured walkthroughs, risks are identified and mapped to realistic threat scenarios. From those scenarios, applied security test cases are developed and executed.
The objective is not to fire on all cylinders across every endpoint, but to validate whether enumerated threat paths are exploitable under real-world conditions.
Real breaches rarely hinge on a single obvious vulnerability. They emerge from combinations of weaknesses that, when linked together, create meaningful exploit paths across applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS) focuses on those deeper attack scenarios.
That includes targeted evaluation of:
This is where material risk resides. Not in the routine findings that every scanner flags, but in the architectural weaknesses that require human reasoning and adversarial thinking to uncover.
By applying experienced offensive specialists to your environment, PTaaS introduces sustained attacker simulation into your security program. The objective is not to generate noise. It is to uncover the paths that a determined adversary would actually pursue and ensure those paths are closed before they are exploited.
Your attack surface will continue to expand as your business grows. Board expectations around measurable risk reduction will not relax. And hiring experienced offensive talent will remain competitive and slow.
If you want to reduce real exploit risk, your offensive capability must scale with your environment, not with your headcount.
Pentesting as a Service provides that scale by embedding sustained attacker simulation into your security program, rather than relying on isolated assessments.
Extend your security team. Strengthen your coverage. Reduce exposure before it becomes an impact.
Pentesting as a Service is a model introduced by we45 designed to provide continuous offensive coverage for an organization without requiring them to expand their internal security headcount. It shifts the approach from periodic security assessments to continuous, iterative risk validation aligned with engineering velocity.
Traditional event-based pentesting, built for slower systems, creates a structural gap in modern, continuously evolving environments. Critical issues are still discovered between test cycles, the same vulnerabilities reappear year after year, and major releases introduce new blind spots because fixed-interval testing provides only a historical, "moment in time" assessment rather than a current risk signal.
Hiring experienced pentesters is often expensive, slow, and competitive, and a single hire rarely provides the full range of depth needed. PTaaS removes this bottleneck by allowing a company to extend its existing security function with seasoned offensive specialists across web, API, cloud, and modern architectures. This provides immediate leverage and expanded testing capacity without the need for permanent headcount, recruitment cycles, or ramp-up delays.
Periodic testing delivers findings that are only accurate for a moment in time, quickly becoming historical documentation as systems and code change. Continuous Risk Validation, enabled by PTaaS, aligns offensive testing directly with system change and engineering velocity. This ensures that what changes is tested when it changes, allowing for the identification of exploitable paths based on current architecture and validation of fixes through real attack simulation.
PTaaS directly lowers exposure windows by reducing the time between vulnerability introduction and verification. It embeds sustained attacker simulation into the security program to scale offensive capability with the expanding attack surface of a growing business, rather than relying on isolated, point-in-time assessments that do not keep pace with change.
