Three ways to buy offensive security, and they are not substitutes. A traditional pentest, a PTaaS subscription and a bug bounty programme buy different things, bill in different shapes, and only some of them satisfy an auditor. Direct answer Which should we buy: a traditional pentest, PTaaS, or a bug
An external network penetration test examines everything an attacker can reach from the internet without credentials: your address space, edge devices, exposed services and the hosts nobody remembers owning. Direct answer What does an external network penetration test cover, and what does it cost? It covers your internet facing perimeter,
PCI DSS
Quick answer SAQ A is for merchants who have fully outsourced card capture. Every element of the payment page comes directly from your provider, and card data never reaches a system you control. Around 31 requirements. SAQ A-EP is for e-commerce merchants whose own website affects the payment page but
PCI DSS
Quick answer PCI DSS compliance costs between about $500 and $200,000 a year, and the single biggest factor is not your company size. It is how your checkout is built. A merchant whose payment page is a hosted iframe from Stripe or Adyen files SAQ A and pays a
Penetration Testing
Disclosure PM3 is an open framework, published by SecurityWall and free to use, cite, adapt and build on. No licence, no certification body, no fee. Consultancies are welcome to score clients with it, GRC teams to benchmark against it, and other vendors to map their products to its levels. We
Disclosure before you read SecurityWall builds SLASH. This page compares our product to a competitor, so read it with that in mind. We have put "Where PlexTrac wins" before "Where SLASH wins", named seven specific areas where PlexTrac is the better choice, and told you plainly
Nessus
× Scan a few times a year? Skip the $4,790 licence · SME friendly quote Schedule a Cost Comparison Call → QUICK ANSWER · COST COMPARISON TCO ANALYSIS · 2026 Tenable Nessus Professional costs $4,790 per year for a single scanner with unlimited target IPs (Tenable published pricing, verified July 2026). Real total
Saudi Arabia
× SCADA, PLCs, HMI in scope? OTCC-aware testing · Safety first methodology Get a Safety First OT Scoping → QUICK ANSWER · SAUDI ARABIA OT/ICS · HIGH STAKES An OT/ICS penetration test for Saudi critical infrastructure evaluates SCADA systems, PLCs, HMIs, Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), engineering workstations, and the IT/OT network boundary
AI Security
× SW Saudi AI compliance help? SDAIA · PDPL · NCA · 30 min scoping call Talk to Our Team → QUICK ANSWER · SAUDI ARABIA FIRST MOVER · 2026 An Arabic LLM security audit tests four risk surfaces that English-only evaluations miss: Arabizi (Arabic chatspeak) and transliteration jailbreaks that bypass refusals working in standard Arabic, dialectal
Prompt Injection
On 11 June 2025, Microsoft disclosed CVE-2025-32711 code-named EchoLeak, CVSS 9.3 a zero-click indirect prompt injection in Microsoft 365 Copilot. By sending a single crafted email with no user interaction required, an attacker could cause Copilot to access internal files and exfiltrate them to an attacker-controlled server. The chain