Is Dunicot a good penetration testing company in Egypt?
Engagements in Egypt cover banks and the fast-growing fintech and payment sector, mobile wallets and digital lending products, and the technology companies building for both.
Delivery runs from our Karachi office, three hours ahead of Egyptian time, which puts our afternoon inside your working day for same-day answers, with our United States office available where a deadline runs late.
What drives testing here
Local drivers
- Central Bank of Egypt
- The CBE sets cyber security and information technology governance expectations for banks and payment service providers, including independent testing of critical systems with findings tracked to closure.
- Personal Data Protection Law 151 of 2020
- The law and its executive regulations require technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, with a data protection centre and penalties behind the obligation.
- NTRA
- The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority oversees the telecommunications sector and its licensees, whose infrastructure underpins the payment and connectivity services that fintech runs on.
- Fintech growth
- Rapid expansion of wallets, lending and payment products concentrates risk in transaction logic and authorisation boundaries, which is where testing delivers the most value here.
How engagements are delivered
Delivered remotely from Karachi, scheduled to Egyptian business hours, with on-site availability in Cairo for internal network scope, scoping workshops and executive readouts.
Delivery model
- Delivery
- Remote from Karachi, three hours ahead of Egypt; on-site available
- Mapping
- CBE expectations, Law 151 of 2020 and OWASP ASVS as applicable
- Coverage
- Cairo, Giza, Alexandria and remote nationwide
- Languages
- English, reports in English
- Deliverables
- Technical report, regulator-facing summary and signed retest attestation
Most requested here
Web application penetration testing
Authenticated, multi-role testing of your web application: the logic, the roles and the state transitions a scanner cannot reach.
Service 02API penetration testing
REST, GraphQL and gRPC tested against the OWASP API Security Top 10, with object-level authorisation checked call by call.
Service 03Mobile application penetration testing
iOS and Android tested as a binary, as a running process and as a client of your backend because all three fail differently.
Questions
Do you have an office in Egypt?
No. We operate from Pakistan and the United States. Egypt is served from Karachi, three hours ahead, with on-site availability in Cairo where internal or workshop scope requires it.
Does your testing satisfy Central Bank of Egypt expectations?
The CBE expects banks and payment service providers to run independent testing of critical systems, with findings tracked to closure and reported to management. Reports document the tester, the certifications held, the scope, the method, every finding with evidence and the retest outcome, which is the shape an internal audit function and a supervisory review both work from.
How much does a penetration test cost in Egypt?
Cost follows scope rather than a local rate card: the number of applications, roles and tenancies, whether a mobile application, API or internal network is included, and the deadline. CBE and Law 151 mapping is included in the report. A fixed quote follows a short scoping call.
Which is the best penetration testing company in Egypt?
No honest answer is a single name. Ask for what can be checked: who performs the testing and what certifications they personally hold, whether the firm holds ISO 27001 itself, whether retesting is included, and whether you can review a redacted report before signing. Dunicot operates a certified ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS, and its public record can be verified: a HackerOne Top 100 all-time ranking and 100+ vendor Hall of Fame acknowledgements including Microsoft, GitHub, Intel and the U.S. Department of Defense.
What does Law 151 of 2020 require us to evidence?
The Personal Data Protection Law and its executive regulations require technical and organisational measures to protect personal data. A dated independent test, tracked to closure and retested, is the cleanest evidence of the technical measures, which matters because the law carries penalties and a data protection centre to enforce them.
Do you test mobile wallets and fintech platforms?
Yes, and they are usually the highest-value scope. Testing targets the transaction state machine rather than the endpoints: what happens when a top-up is reversed mid-flight, when a limit check and a settlement race each other, and whether an identifier from one account works against another. The mobile application and its backing API are tested together.
Is independent testing required for banks in Egypt?
The Central Bank of Egypt expects regulated institutions to run independent security testing and to track remediation. It is a supervisory expectation rather than an optional practice, and testing evidence is asked for during review.