How long does a typical security audit take?

Most audits run two to four weeks depending on scope. A focused application audit may finish in ten business days; a full-estate review spanning cloud, identity, and data needs three to four weeks with stakeholder workshops.

What's the difference between an audit and a penetration test?

An audit reviews architecture, configurations, policies, and controls against a standard or baseline. A penetration test actively exploits vulnerabilities to prove impact. We often pair them, but the audit catches design flaws a pentest alone would miss.

Do you follow a specific framework?

We map findings to OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001 controls depending on your regulatory and maturity context. The framework is a lens, not a checkbox exercise.

How are findings prioritized?

By exploitability, blast radius, and business context — not just CVSS scores. A medium-severity finding on a payment endpoint may rank higher than a high-severity finding on an internal wiki.

What deliverables do we receive?

An executive summary for leadership, a technical report with reproduction steps and remediation guidance, and a tracking spreadsheet your team can import into Jira or Linear.

Can you audit cloud-native and containerized environments?

Yes. We assess Kubernetes clusters, serverless functions, IaC templates, container registries, and cloud IAM policies as part of the infrastructure domain.

Do you offer re-testing after remediation?

Every engagement includes a re-test window. Once your team fixes the critical and high findings, we verify the remediations and update the report status.

How do you handle sensitive data during the audit?

We sign NDAs, use encrypted channels for all evidence, and delete raw data within 30 days of report delivery. Access is limited to the assigned audit team.

Zupitrix

Surface risk before attackers do

Know what's exposed.
Fix it before it matters.

Zupitrix runs deep technical audits across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, identity systems, and data stores — delivering prioritized findings, verified impact, and remediation guidance your engineers can act on immediately.

Start Audit See methodology

Prioritized findings
Remediation plans
Executive + technical reports

Security analyst reviewing audit findings on monitors

Severity model

Findings ranked by real risk — not just CVSS

Critical

Immediate exploitation risk, active in the wild

High

Exploitable with moderate effort, significant impact

Medium

Requires specific conditions, contained blast radius

Low

Informational or hardening recommendations

Data visualization representing threat severity analysis

Audit scope

Six domains, one engagement

Application

OWASP Top 10 plus business logic abuse, auth/session hardening, CSRF/XSS, file handling, and sensitive-data exposure across web + mobile.

API

REST + GraphQL authZ, rate limiting, object-level access control (BOLA), schema validation, mass assignment, and data leakage — with reproducible requests.

Cloud

IAM policy risk, network exposure, storage misconfiguration, logging gaps, and guardrail coverage across AWS/Azure/GCP — mapped to CIS where relevant.

Identity

SSO + conditional access, MFA coverage, privilege escalation paths, service accounts, and federation trust chains — with least-privilege remediation paths.

Network

Segmentation, firewall/security groups, DNS security, VPN/ZTNA posture, and lateral movement paths between zones — validated with reachability checks.

Data

Encryption at rest/in transit, key management + rotation, backup security, data classification, retention/deletion controls, and access logging for regulated data.

Deliverables

Reports that drive action — not shelf weight

Executive Summary

Risk posture overview with severity distribution and top-5 business-critical findings for leadership.

Technical Report

Detailed reproduction steps, evidence screenshots, affected endpoints, and remediation code samples.

Remediation Tracker

Prioritized finding list with owner fields, SLA targets, and status columns ready for Jira or Linear import.

Architecture Review

Annotated diagrams highlighting trust boundaries, data flows, and where controls are missing or misconfigured.

Methodology

Six phases from scope to close-out

012–3 days

Scope & Context

Define audit boundaries, threat model, compliance drivers, and success criteria. We align on what “critical” means for your business and users.

023–5 days

Discovery

Enumerate assets, map data flows and trust boundaries, review architecture + IaC, and identify high-value targets worth a deeper manual pass.

035–10 days

Assessment

Execute test plans across all in-scope domains — automated scanning plus manual expert review focused on authZ, data access, and real exploit chains.

042–3 days

Analysis & Ranking

Correlate findings into attack paths, assess exploitability + blast radius + business impact, and assign severity with context your stakeholders can trust.

052–3 days

Reporting

Deliver an executive summary, a technical report with reproduction steps, and a remediation tracker ready for Jira/Linear — with fix guidance and owners.

063–5 days

Re-test & Close

Verify remediations, update finding statuses, and issue a clean delta report. Critical/high items get re-tested with the same exploit path.

Industry focus

Audits shaped by regulatory context

Fintech & Payments

PCI-DSS aligned audits covering cardholder data flows, tokenization, and third-party integrations.

PCI · SOC 2 · DORA

Healthcare & Life Sciences

HIPAA-aligned reviews of PHI handling, access controls, audit logging, and vendor risk.

HIPAA · HITRUST · FDA

SaaS & B2B Platforms

Multi-tenant isolation, API security, CI/CD pipeline hardening, and customer-facing security posture.

SOC 2 · ISO 27001

What you receive

Audit pack — not a 200-page PDF nobody reads

01

Risk-ranked findings with CVSS + business context scores

02

Executive summary with severity heat map

03

Technical report with reproduction steps

04

Remediation tracker importable to Jira / Linear

05

Architecture diagrams with annotated trust boundaries

06

Re-test report confirming remediation effectiveness

Outcomes

Security posture you can measure and report

Faster remediation cycles

Severity-ranked backlogs mean engineering fixes what matters first, not what's loudest.

Board-ready risk posture

Executive summaries translate technical findings into business risk language leadership understands.

Compliance evidence

Audit reports map to SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA controls — ready for auditor review.

Security team collaborating on audit remediation

Stack & tooling

Technologies we put to work

The audit blends automation with expert validation — using best-in-class scanners, code analysis, and cloud posture tooling to turn signals into verified, fixable issues.

DAST

Burp Suite

Manual testing and request replay to validate exploitability.

Scanner

OWASP ZAP

Baseline scanning for common web and API exposures.

AppSec

Snyk

Dependency and container vulnerability detection with fix guidance.

Container

Trivy

Image, dependency, and IaC scanning for cloud-native estates.

Runtime

Docker

Container surface review for privileged configs and insecure defaults.

Cluster

Kubernetes

CIS-aligned cluster hardening and workload exposure checks.

Cloud

AWS

Account posture review for IAM, storage, and network exposure.

IaC

Terraform

Codified control checks so misconfigurations are caught before deploy.

Zupitrix role

How Zupitrix leads this engagement

Zupitrix owns the audit scope, execution, and reporting end-to-end — balancing automated coverage with expert manual validation. We partner with your engineers on remediation planning, verify fixes through re-testing, and help you translate findings into measurable risk reduction.

Run stakeholder scoping workshops and build an asset + data-flow inventory
Execute automated and manual testing across app, API, cloud, identity, network, and data
Deliver severity-ranked findings with reproduction steps and engineering-ready fixes
Support remediation pairing and re-test critical/high issues to close the loop

Security team collaborating on remediation planning

FAQ

Questions about security audits

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Fix it before it matters.

Findings ranked by real risk — not just CVSS