Web & Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Manual, role-aware testing of your web and mobile applications.
Canary Trap validates the business logic, access control, and workflow issues automated tools routinely miss.
What we test, review, and validate.
Hands-on, senior-led testing supported by tools and threat intelligence, never replaced by them.
Outcome of this engagement
External exposure is not just a list of open ports or CVEs. Canary Trap combines manual testing, adversarial thinking, tools, and threat intelligence to assess what a real attacker could discover, validate, and exploit from outside your organization.
- Login, MFA, password reset, and session handling
- SSO and federated identity flows
- Token, cookie, and refresh-flow handling
- Horizontal and vertical authorization flaws, including IDOR/BOLA
- Multi-tenant data isolation
- Workflow abuse, race conditions, and state manipulation
- Injection, SSRF, deserialization, and file handling
- Mobile binary, transport, and storage review (iOS, Android)
- Client-side, framework, and dependency exposure
A report your team can actually use.
A penetration test is only valuable if the findings lead somewhere.
Canary Trap reports are written to support remediation, leadership visibility, compliance conversations, and customer or auditor requests.
Security confidence should come from how the application was tested
This engagement gives your team a defensible view of how your application behaves under adversarial use. You leave with evidence of what was tested, what was validated, where risk exists, and what should happen next.
A transparent process from scope to retesting.
Every application penetration test is scoped to your application, roles, workflows, timing, and testing objectives.
We confirm scope, user roles, test accounts, environments, workflows, rules of engagement, timing, contacts, and communication process.
Our testers investigate and validate exploitable weaknesses across application roles, workflows, access boundaries, and supporting attack surface.
We document findings with evidence, severity, business context, reproduction detail, and practical remediation guidance.
Your team addresses the findings with clear direction from the report and findings review.
We retest remediated findings within the defined window to validate that the risk has been addressed.
Application testing led by people who know what scanners miss.
Application penetration testing is often treated like a checkbox before launch. That is usually where the trouble starts.
Canary Trap brings senior offensive security expertise, structured methodology, and practical reporting to help your team understand how your applications actually behave under attack.
Senior-led testing
Testing is led by experienced offensive security professionals, not handed off to junior scanner operators.
Human-led validation
Tools support the process. They do not replace judgment. Our testers validate exploitability, investigate context, and look for realistic attack paths.
Practical reporting
Findings include the technical detail needed for remediation and the business context needed for leadership, compliance, and customer conversations.
Project management
Every engagement includes clear communication, defined expectations, and project management throughout the testing lifecycle.
Retesting and validation
Retesting helps confirm that remediated findings have actually been addressed, not just marked complete.
Trust signals
Canary Trap is SOC 2 Type II certified, maintains an NPS above 95, and specializes in offensive security testing.
Application risk rarely exists in isolation.
Most application environments depend on APIs, code, cloud services, identity controls, and release processes. These are common pairings with Web & Mobile Application Penetration Testing.
Application penetration testing questions, answered plainly.
Web and mobile application penetration testing evaluates how an application behaves under deliberate adversarial use — validating authentication, authorization, business logic, and data handling across user roles and workflows.
Canary Trap combines manual, role-aware testing of web applications, single-page apps, and native iOS and Android apps — including the APIs they depend on — with prioritized reporting and retesting to help teams find and fix the flaws automated tools routinely miss.
Compare scope before you compare price. Ask each provider four things: who actually performs the testing and how senior they are; whether testing is role-aware and covers business logic and access control, or is limited to scanner-driven coverage of the OWASP Top 10; whether retesting of fixes is included or billed separately; and whether they’ll share a redacted sample report. The sample report settles most evaluations on its own — it’s the deliverable you’ll be defending to your auditor, your leadership, and your customers.
Cost is driven by scope — primarily the number of applications, user roles, and workflows in play, and whether mobile platforms and supporting APIs are included. A single web application with two roles is a materially different engagement than a multi-tenant SaaS platform with iOS and Android apps. We price from scope, not from a rate card, and we’ll tell you honestly if a lighter-weight assessment is the better fit. If quotes you’re comparing vary widely, the scope varies — ask each vendor how much of the work is manual and role-aware.
Most application engagements run one to three weeks of active testing, depending on the number of applications, roles, and workflows in scope. Typical lead time is two to four weeks, and time-sensitive engagements can often be accommodated — reach out and we’ll be direct about timing. If you’re working backwards from a launch, audit, or renewal date, tell us the date on the scoping call and we’ll build the schedule around it.
Both. Canary Trap tests web applications, single-page applications, and native iOS and Android applications, including the APIs and backend services they depend on.
Yes, where APIs support the web or mobile application experience. For deeper API-specific coverage, Canary Trap may recommend a dedicated API Penetration Testing engagement.
Most testing is performed in a representative pre-production environment, with carefully controlled production validation where needed. We confirm the approach, testing windows, and rules of engagement before testing begins.
Canary Trap works with your team to provision dedicated, role-based test accounts and synthetic data. This allows testers to validate access boundaries and tenant isolation without using real customer data.
Yes. Our reports are written to support common compliance frameworks — and to remain technically useful to the engineering team that has to fix things. We can also map testing scope and findings to OWASP ASVS, MASVS, and Top 10 categories on request. Compliance requirements are a floor, not the goal; a report that only satisfies your auditor has done half its job.
Yes. Retesting of remediated findings is included within a defined window after report delivery, so every fix is confirmed rather than assumed — and your evidence pack shows validated remediation, not just identified issues.
An application penetration testing report should include an executive summary, prioritized findings, role-based impact, affected workflows, reproducible evidence, practical remediation guidance, and retest results where applicable.
Whoever you choose, ask for a redacted sample report before you buy. In this business, the report is the product.
A scanner crawls what it can reach and flags patterns it recognizes. It typically cannot reliably evaluate role boundaries, business logic, and workflow abuse without manual, role-aware testing. Manual application testing validates business logic, authorization, and workflow abuse — the categories where most serious application findings live, and where automated tools are structurally blind.
Applications should be tested at least annually for many compliance programs such as PCI DSS, but also whenever meaningful changes create new exposure. Major releases, new roles, new integrations, new APIs, and new AI-enabled features can all justify testing before the next annual cycle.
A penetration test validates the application as it existed on the test dates. It does not validate what you ship next quarter.
Ready to scope your application penetration test?
A short scoping call is enough to align on your application, roles, workflows, timing, testing objectives, and the right next step.
Working against a launch, audit, or renewal date? Tell us the deadline and we’ll work backwards from it.
