Babar Khan Akhunzada leads security strategy, offensive operations. Babar has been featured in 25-Under-25 and has been to BlackHat, OWASP, BSides premiere conferences as a speaker.
A penetration test produces findings. A findings workflow produces fixes. The distance between the two is where most security programmes quietly lose half their money. Direct answer What happens to penetration test findings after the report is delivered? Across more than 5,000 penetration tests, Cobalt found that 48% of
Penetration Testing
On this page 1. What a programme is, and when you need one 2. The operating model in one view 3. Stage 1: intake and scoping 4. Stage 2: vendor selection and scheduling 5. Stage 3: consolidating findings from multiple testers 6. Stage 4: severity, SLAs and remediation routing 7.
PTaaS
Disclosure before you read SecurityWall builds SLASH, one of the platforms below. We have reviewed it on the same criteria as everything else and named the three situations where you should buy something other than SLASH. Every price is sourced and dated, including the gaps. Quick answer Most lists of
Penetration Testing
Seven questions buyers ask right before booking Every answer below is direct and self contained. Ranges are market rates from published sources, listed under each answer. SecurityWall quotes fixed scope in a call rather than posting a price list, so treat these as budget planning bands, not quotes. 01What does
EU AI Act Compliance
× August 2026 high risk AI deadline? Article 9 security testing · Ready? Schedule a Meeting → QUICK ANSWER · EU AI ACT AUG 2 2026 DEADLINE EU AI Act Regulation 2024/1689 Article 9 requires providers of high risk AI systems to establish, implement, document, and maintain a risk management system throughout the
API Security
× Integration blocked by security? API pentest with OWASP mapping · 2 week delivery Get an API Security Scoping Call → QUICK ANSWER · API INTEGRATION LAUNCH BLOCKER · 2026 An API security assessment for a partner integration is a scoped penetration test of the specific API surface your integration exposes, mapped to OWASP API
Saudi Arabia
SAUDI ARABIA · NCA REGISTERED Updated: June 21, 2026 $3B+ Saudi AI infrastructure GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT 7 SDAIA AI Principles SEPTEMBER 2023 SAR 5M PDPL maximum fine DOUBLED FOR REPEAT 72hr SDAIA breach window FROM AWARENESS Quick Answer: An AI security audit in Saudi Arabia must satisfy three overlapping regimes: SDAIA'
NCA ECC
Cloud adoption in Saudi Arabia has moved from "planning" to "production" inside the past three years. AWS launched its Riyadh region; Microsoft Azure opened its Saudi data centre; Google Cloud has a Saudi region live; Oracle and IBM have local infrastructure. Vision 2030 actively pushes government
AI Security
When my team runs an AI security audit in 2026 whether it is a usual chatbot, a RAG pipeline, an agent, or a multi-agent system/application we find critical issues in the first hour of testing nine times out of ten. Not in week one. Not in day one. In
LLM Security
If you are budgeting for an LLM security audit or AI red teaming engagement in 2026, the honest market range is $6,000 to $45,000 or more depending on what you are actually buying. The bottom of that range covers a single chatbot, no tools, no compliance attachment. The
Vibe Coding
If you are reading this, you have most likely built something on Cursor, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, v0, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, or Claude Code, and you are about to put it in front of real users. You want to know what an actual security audit covers, what we typically find
Vibe Coding
Andrej Karpathy coined the phrase "vibe coding" in February 2025: describe what you want, let AI generate the code, "forget that the code even exists." Roughly eighteen months later, the industry has its answer to what happens when you ship a lot of code that nobody