Smart PTaaS: continuous penetration testing, verified by real attackers.
Most PTaaS platforms hand you a dashboard full of scanner alerts and call it a day. ComplyArmor's Smart PTaaS pairs always-on autonomous discovery with expert manual exploitation — so every finding in your report is proven exploitable, not a false positive you have to chase down yourself.
Penetration Testing as a Service, defined
PTaaS (Penetration Testing as a Service) replaces the old model — a scoped engagement once or twice a year, ending in a PDF report that's already stale by the time it lands — with continuous testing delivered through a platform. As your attack surface changes — a new endpoint ships, a dependency updates, a config drifts — testing picks it up, instead of waiting for next year's scheduled pentest.
It's the difference between a smoke detector and an annual fire inspection. Both matter. Only one catches the fire while it's still small.
Automation finds candidates. A human confirms attacks.
Continuous discovery
Autonomous crawlers and graph-based mapping keep your inventory current across web, mobile, API, network, and source-code surfaces — no manual re-scoping every quarter.
Manual verification, every time
Nothing reaches your report unproven. A real finding means someone attempted exploitation and confirmed impact — not a scanner heuristic guessing at a match.
Audit-ready reporting
Every finding maps to OWASP Top 10, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 control language, with remediation guidance your engineering team can act on directly.
PTaaS vs. traditional penetration testing
Built for fast-moving teams
- SaaS teams shipping weekly who can't wait a year between security tests
- Fintech, healthtech, and regulated startups needing SOC 2 / ISO 27001-mapped evidence on an ongoing basis
- Teams that already tried a pure-automation scanner and got buried in false positives
- Companies adding AI agents, LLM features, or MCP servers that traditional pentest vendors don't test at all
What's included
- Web, mobile (Android & iOS), API, network, source code, thick client, AI agent / LLM, and MCP server coverage — see the full attack surface
- Manual exploitation and business-logic testing, not just automated scanning
- Continuous re-testing as your application changes
- Reports mapped to OWASP, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 — see our compliance mapping
PTaaS, frequently asked
What is PTaaS (Penetration Testing as a Service)?
PTaaS is a delivery model for penetration testing that replaces a once-a-year point-in-time report with continuous, platform-delivered testing — new findings surface as your application changes, not twelve months after a vulnerability was introduced.
What makes ComplyArmor's PTaaS "Smart PTaaS"?
Most PTaaS platforms stop at automated scanning, which means you inherit scanner noise and false positives. Smart PTaaS pairs autonomous, continuous discovery with expert manual verification and exploitation before anything reaches your report.
How is PTaaS different from traditional penetration testing?
Traditional penetration testing is a scoped, scheduled engagement that produces one report at a fixed point in time. PTaaS runs continuously against your live attack surface, so new endpoints and misconfigurations get tested as they appear.
Does PTaaS satisfy SOC 2 and ISO 27001 penetration testing requirements?
Yes, when the testing is properly scoped, documented, and includes genuine exploitation attempts rather than an unverified vulnerability scan. ComplyArmor's Smart PTaaS reports are mapped to OWASP Top 10, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 control language so they hold up in an audit.
How much does PTaaS cost compared to traditional pentesting?
PTaaS is typically priced as an ongoing subscription rather than a one-off engagement fee, which spreads cost across the year — and because continuous testing catches issues closer to when they're introduced, the average cost of remediation per finding is lower than fixing accumulated issues found in an annual test.