Security That Survives Real Attackers
We harden web apps, APIs, cloud accounts and corporate networks against the threats your business actually faces — credential stuffing, ransomware, supply-chain attacks, insider mistakes, leaked S3 buckets. Not a 200-page PDF that lives in a SharePoint folder. Real fixes, tested, documented, and handed back so your team can hold the line after we leave.
You don't need another compliance binder.
You need attackers to fail.
Most security spend goes into checkboxes that satisfy auditors and do nothing for attackers. Meanwhile your real risks sit in plain sight: a forgotten admin panel on a staging subdomain, an S3 bucket that turned public during a 2022 migration, an IAM role with AdministratorAccess held by a contractor who left last year, a customer-support tool with no MFA. We chase the things attackers actually use, fix them, and write the runbook so they don't come back.
Your auth flow is one credential-stuff away from disaster
No rate limiting, no MFA enforcement, password reset tokens that don't expire, session cookies missing HttpOnly and SameSite. The breach won't come from a zero-day — it'll come from a list someone bought on Telegram for $40.
Cloud misconfigs nobody is watching
Public S3 buckets, over-broad IAM roles, security groups with 0.0.0.0/0 on port 22, KMS keys with wildcard policies. The auditor missed it. The bot scanning the internet won't.
Supply chain you have never inventoried
Hundreds of npm and Python dependencies, half of them unmaintained, none of them pinned, and a CI pipeline that pulls latest on every build. One typosquat away from shipping a backdoor to production.
What You Actually Get
No vague deliverables. Here's exactly what lands in your hands.
A pentest report a CTO can read
Executive summary, exploit chains with proof, severity scored to CVSS, remediation steps written for engineers, and a re-test pass when fixes ship. Not a 400-page Nessus dump.
Fixes shipped, not just findings filed
Where you want it, we don't just hand you a list — we open the PRs, work with your engineers, and verify the patches in staging before signing off.
Detection and alerting that catches the next one
WAF rules, CloudTrail / audit log alerts, anomaly detection, GuardDuty / Security Center wired into Slack or PagerDuty. You find out in minutes, not from a customer tweet.
A written security baseline and playbooks
Incident response runbook, on-call escalation tree, breach notification template, and a hardening baseline your next engineer can extend. Not vibes — documents.
A Real Offensive Security Team
Security that holds up needs more than a vuln scanner and a checklist. Six roles you get on every Pillai Infotech security engagement.
Offensive Security Lead
OSCP / OSWE / CREST. Builds real exploit chains, not Burp screenshots. Has popped the kind of app you're asking us to test, and knows where the bodies are usually buried.
Cloud Security Specialist
AWS / GCP / Azure IAM, KMS, SCP, network controls, GuardDuty, Security Hub. Knows the difference between a finding and a real escalation path.
AppSec Engineer
Reads code, not just response headers. SAST, DAST, manual review, threat modeling, secure SDLC. Lives in OWASP Top 10 and the long tail beyond it.
Incident Response Lead
Has been on the 3am call. Forensics, containment, eradication, recovery, and the post-mortem that doesn't blame the intern. Writes the runbook before you need it.
Compliance & Governance Lead
SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, DPDP. Translates control language into engineering tickets. Files the evidence so your audit doesn't derail Q4.
Threat Intel & Detection Engineer
Builds the alerts, tunes out the noise, watches the threat landscape so your team doesn't have to. Knows when a CVE actually matters and when it's vendor theatre.
You See Everything. In Real Time.
Every Pillai Infotech project comes with a dedicated client dashboard. Kanban boards, live logs, test results, meeting notes — it's all visible the moment it happens. No status-report theatre, no "we'll get back to you", no surprises at the demo. You work with us like you work with your own team.
Kanban Board, Live
Every epic, every story, every task — visible on your dashboard. Drag, comment, reprioritize. It's the same board our team works from.
Documented Everything
Every decision, spec, API contract, and architecture diagram lives in the dashboard. Searchable, versioned, linked to the tasks they shaped.
Live Logs & Test Results
Build logs, deployment logs, test suite results — streamed to your dashboard the moment they run. You never have to ask "did the build pass?"
Meetings → Tasks, Automatically
Every meeting is recorded, transcribed, and every action point is auto-converted into a tracked task assigned to the right person. Nothing gets lost between calls.
Sprint Burndown & Velocity
See exactly how much work is done, how much remains, and our velocity over time. If a sprint is slipping, you see it the same moment we do.
Comment, Approve, Decide — In-Place
Comment on any task, approve designs, sign off on specs, and raise blockers directly in the dashboard. Everything tied to the work, not buried in email threads.
Security Engagements We Know How to Deliver
From a one-week pentest to a year-long compliance program. We pick the shape to match the risk.
🎯 Web & API penetration tests
Black-box, grey-box, or white-box. Real exploit chains, business logic flaws, auth bypasses, IDORs, SSRF, the lot. Re-test included.
☁️ Cloud security audits
AWS / GCP / Azure account review against CIS benchmarks plus the things CIS misses. IAM blast radius, network exposure, data store posture, logging gaps.
📱 Mobile app security testing
Static and dynamic analysis on iOS and Android. Cert pinning, jailbreak detection, secure storage, IPC, deep-link abuse, insecure backend calls.
🧬 Source code & SAST review
Hands-on code review by a human, not just a Snyk dump. Auth, crypto, input handling, secrets management, dependency hygiene.
📋 Compliance readiness (SOC2 / ISO / PCI)
Gap assessment, control implementation, evidence pipeline, auditor liaison. We've done the audits — we know what passes and what gets a finding.
🚒 Incident response & breach support
You're in the middle of something. We come in fast: containment, forensics, eradication, customer comms support, post-mortem and hardening.
The Security Stack We Use
Real tools for real attackers. We pay for the good ones because they pay for themselves.
Offensive
Code & App Analysis
Cloud & Posture
Detection & Response
A Six-Stage Security Engagement Process
Built around the reality that finding bugs is the easy part — fixing them, and keeping them fixed, is the work.
Scoping & Threat Model
What are we protecting, from whom, and what would actually hurt? In-scope assets, out-of-scope ones, rules of engagement, and a written threat model before any tooling fires.
Recon & Attack Surface Mapping
Subdomains, exposed services, third-party SaaS, leaked credentials, GitHub secrets, open buckets. The full map of what an attacker can see — most clients are surprised.
Exploitation & Chain Building
Manual, hands-on attack work. We don't stop at "this endpoint is vulnerable" — we chain findings into the real impact: account takeover, data exfil, privilege escalation, RCE.
Reporting & Walkthrough
Written report plus a live walkthrough with your engineering team. We show the exploits, answer the "but how" questions, and prioritize fixes by real-world impact.
Remediation Support
We work with your team on the fixes — code review, IAM tightening, WAF rules, config changes. Not just a finding handed over the wall.
Re-test & Hardening Baseline
We re-test every critical and high finding once fixed, sign off the patch, and leave you with a written hardening baseline so the next sprint doesn't reintroduce them.
Three Ways to Engage
Security work isn't one-size. Pick the engagement that matches the risk you're carrying.
Pentest & Report
Two-to-four-week fixed engagement to test a defined scope, deliver a written report, and re-test critical fixes.
- Black/grey/white-box options
- Executive + engineering report
- Free re-test of critical fixes
Security Hardening Sprint
Eight-to-twelve-week program: pentest, fixes shipped, detection wired up, incident runbooks written, and team trained.
- Findings AND fixes
- Detection + alerting setup
- Incident response playbook
Virtual CISO / Embedded Security
Fractional security leadership and an embedded engineer working alongside your team on an ongoing basis.
- vCISO + AppSec engineer
- Monthly retainer
- Best for: SOC2 / ISO journeys
Honest Answers to Security Reality Questions
The questions every smart buyer asks before signing. Here's what we tell them.
How is this different from a Nessus scan?
Nessus tells you which CVE numbers are present. We tell you which ones are actually exploitable in your environment, chain them into real impact (account takeover, data exfil, RCE), and write the fix. Most of our highest-impact findings are business-logic flaws no scanner will ever catch — IDORs, broken auth, race conditions, multi-step privilege escalation.
Will the test break our production?
No. We define rules of engagement up front: which environments, which time windows, which payloads are allowed, what to do if something looks fragile. We default to staging or a production replica. If you genuinely need a production test, we agree the blast radius and have your on-call standing by. We have not taken down a client.
Do we get a re-test after we fix things?
Yes. Every critical and high finding gets a free re-test once you've shipped the fix. We sign off the patch in writing. Lower-severity findings can be re-tested as part of an ongoing engagement or a follow-up engagement.
Can you help us pass SOC2 / ISO 27001?
Yes. We've walked clients through both. Expect a gap assessment, a control implementation plan, evidence collection (we'll automate what we can), policy templates you can actually adopt, and direct support during the audit window. We're not the auditor — we're the people who get you ready for the auditor.
We think we're being attacked right now. Can you help today?
Yes. Incident response is a separate fast-track engagement: same-day remote bridge, isolated forensic copies, containment, eradication, customer-comms support, and a written post-mortem. Call us first, then your lawyers. We'll work with both.
How much should a small SaaS budget for security per year?
Honest answer: somewhere between 4–8% of engineering spend if you handle customer data, more if you're regulated. That covers an annual pentest, dependency scanning, a SIEM/log pipeline, MFA tooling, security training, and a bit of incident-response retainer. We'll size it for your actual risk in the scoping call — not sell you the platinum tier.
Do you sell us a tool or a service?
Service, every time. We'll recommend tools where they earn their keep (Burp Pro, Semgrep, Wiz, GuardDuty, etc.) but we don't take vendor kickbacks and we don't resell licenses. The bill you pay us is for the human work.
What about AI-generated code? Is it less secure?
Often, yes — for now. LLMs cheerfully produce auth flows with broken token handling, SQL with subtle injection, and IAM policies with wildcard actions. We treat AI-generated code like junior-developer code: review it, threat-model it, and write tests. We don't ban it; we just refuse to trust it without scrutiny.
Can you sign an NDA before we share details?
Always. NDA before the first call, scoped access only after written approval, and findings stay between us and you unless you tell us otherwise. Standard.
Will you publicly disclose anything you find?
Never without your written consent. If we find something in a third-party product that affects more than just you, we'll coordinate responsible disclosure with the vendor — but only with your sign-off and on your timeline.