Overview
Engagements in Singapore cover licensed financial institutions and payment services, the regional SaaS and platform companies headquartered here, digital banks, and the technology suppliers serving all three.
Delivery runs from our Karachi office, three hours behind Singapore. Mornings here overlap your afternoon, which is enough for same-day answers on anything raised before your close of business.
What drives testing here
Local drivers
- MAS TRM Guidelines
- The Technology Risk Management guidelines expect regular penetration testing by qualified testers, with findings tracked to closure and reported to management.
- MAS Notice 655
- Cyber hygiene requirements set mandatory baseline controls for licensed institutions, and testing is how their effectiveness is demonstrated rather than assumed.
- Cybersecurity Act
- Critical Information Infrastructure owners face statutory audit and risk assessment obligations, including independent technical assessment.
- PDPA
- The Personal Data Protection Act requires reasonable security arrangements, and the Commission has taken enforcement action where those arrangements were never tested.
How engagements are delivered
Delivered remotely from Karachi with on-site availability for internal network scope, scoping workshops and executive readouts. Engagements run to Singapore business hours.
Delivery model
- Delivery
- Remote from Karachi, three hours behind Singapore; on-site available
- Mapping
- MAS TRM, MAS Notice 655, PDPA and OWASP ASVS as applicable
- Deliverables
- Technical report, MAS-facing summary and signed retest attestation
- Regional reach
- Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines from the same team
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 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.
Questions
Do you have an office in Singapore?
No. Our offices are in Pakistan and the United States. Singapore is served from Karachi, three hours behind, which leaves a wide working overlap. On-site attendance is arranged where scope requires it.
Does your testing satisfy MAS TRM expectations?
MAS expects testing by suitably qualified testers, scoped to the systems that matter, with findings tracked to closure. 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 needs to file it.
We are a SaaS company selling into banks here. What do buyers ask for?
Usually an independent test within the last twelve months, evidence that findings were remediated, and something shareable that is not the full technical report. All three are produced: the technical report stays internal, and a redacted attestation letter goes to buyers under NDA.
How much does a penetration test cost in Singapore?
Cost follows scope rather than a Singapore rate card, which is the main reason regional buyers use us. MAS TRM and Notice 655 mapping is included in the report rather than charged as a compliance add-on. A fixed quote follows a short scoping call.
Which is the best penetration testing company in Singapore?
No honest answer is a single name, and MAS itself sets the better test: testing by suitably qualified testers, scoped to the systems that matter, with findings tracked to closure. Ask each firm who performs the work, what they personally hold, and whether you can see a redacted report before signing.
Do you test for MAS-licensed payment institutions?
Yes. Major and standard payment institutions carry technology risk expectations that include independent testing and cyber hygiene baselines, and reports are structured for internal audit and MAS review: defined scope, documented methodology, evidence per finding and a signed retest attestation.
Can you support Cybersecurity Act obligations for CII owners?
Where you are designated Critical Information Infrastructure, the Act requires audit and risk assessment on a statutory cycle. Independent technical assessment is how the technical portion is evidenced, and the report is written so it can be filed rather than summarised first.
Do you work with Singapore-headquartered regional groups?
Yes, and consolidating helps. A group scope is tested once and reported against each market's framework, so your Singapore entity gets MAS framing and your Indonesian or Malaysian entity gets its own, from the same findings rather than from separate engagements.