Overview
European engagements are delivered remotely for SaaS and technology platforms, financial entities, healthcare and logistics operators, and the suppliers now pulled into scope by NIS2 through their customers’ supply-chain obligations.
The most common trigger in 2025 and 2026 is not the regulation itself but its downstream effect: an in-scope entity assessing its suppliers, and the supplier discovering it now needs testing evidence to keep a contract it already has.
What drives testing here
Local drivers
- GDPR Article 32
- Requires a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical measures.
- NIS2
- Extends cyber risk management and incident obligations across many more sectors, including supply-chain security.
- DORA
- Financial entities face explicit digital operational resilience testing requirements, with threat-led testing for significant entities.
- Supply-chain assessment
- In-scope entities are required to assess their suppliers, which pushes testing requirements down the chain.
How engagements are delivered
Fully remote delivery across the EU and wider Europe. Karachi runs four hours ahead of Central European Time and Wyoming eight behind, so a European working day is covered from both ends. Data handling and residency requirements agreed before testing begins.
Delivery model
- Delivery
- Fully remote across the EU, EEA and wider Europe
- Overlap
- Karachi mornings and Wyoming afternoons cover the CET day
- Data handling
- Synthetic data preferred; residency requirements accommodated
- Invoicing
- EUR or USD
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 04Cloud penetration testing
AWS, Azure and GCP tested for the paths that get used: identity escalation, exposed storage and metadata reachable from your own application.
Service 06Secure source code review
Manual review with the source in hand: tracing user input to dangerous sinks, and reading the authorisation logic rather than guessing at it.
Questions
Does NIS2 require penetration testing?
NIS2 requires appropriate and proportionate technical measures and policies for assessing their effectiveness, rather than naming penetration testing specifically. In practice, independent testing is how in-scope entities evidence that assessment, and how they answer their own customers’ supply-chain questions.
We are a supplier to an in-scope entity. Does this affect us?
Increasingly, yes. NIS2 requires in-scope entities to address supply-chain security, which they do by assessing suppliers. The requirement arrives contractually rather than legally, but the evidence expected is the same.
What about DORA threat-led penetration testing?
DORA sets a specific TLPT regime for significant financial entities, which follows the TIBER-EU framework and requires accredited providers. For entities outside that threshold, standard penetration testing under the broader resilience testing requirements is the applicable route, and that is what this engagement provides.
Where is engagement data stored?
Under a certified ISO/IEC 27001 information security management system, with handling and residency agreed in writing before testing. Engagement data is destroyed on closure.
How much does a penetration test cost in Europe?
Cost follows scope rather than a European rate card, which is generally why European organisations engage us. GDPR Article 32, NIS2 or DORA framing is included in the report rather than charged as a compliance extra.
Which is the best penetration testing company in Europe?
No honest answer is a single name across a continent of regulators. Ask who performs the testing and what they personally hold, whether the firm holds ISO 27001 itself, whether retesting is included, and whether a redacted report is available before signing.
Can one engagement cover entities in several European countries?
Yes, and it avoids paying repeatedly for the same findings. A group scope is tested once and reported against each applicable regime, so your German entity gets IT-Grundschutz and NIS2 framing and your Irish entity gets CBI and DORA framing from the same evidence.
Do you provide reports in local languages?
Technical reports are written in English, which most European audit chains require anyway. Local-language executive or regulator summaries are arranged where required, with us responsible for the technical accuracy of the translation.
How do you handle GDPR when testing production systems?
By avoiding production data where possible. Testing prefers seeded accounts and synthetic records, exposure is proven against data created for the engagement, and where production access is unavoidable it is covered by a data processing addendum agreed before testing starts.