For Belfast's security vendors, fintech engineering centres and regtech teams. Retest included.
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Belfast has become one of the UK's best-known cyber security and fintech centres. Queen's University's Centre for Secure Information Technologies helped seed a cluster of security start-ups, while international banks, insurers and software groups run large engineering teams in the city. Regtech and legal technology have grown alongside them, serving compliance teams in London, Dublin and New York.
This is a demanding audience. Security vendors are judged by their own security. Engineering centres answer to parent companies with mature testing programmes. Regtech products hold the sensitive data regulators ask clients to protect. Buyers here can read a pentest report critically, so it needs clear scope, real exploitation and honest findings.
Belfast's security product companies sell detection, identity and threat intelligence tools to security-conscious buyers. A vulnerable security product damages trust more than most, so customers expect independent testing. Buyers often ask for it first.
What we focus onAgent enrolment and token handling, tenant separation in alert and log data, API keys with broad permissions, integrations that store customer credentials, and admin consoles.
International financial firms build and run platforms from Belfast for markets elsewhere. Product teams owning customer-facing services must meet group testing standards and client due diligence. Those standards are rarely lenient.
What we focus onTransaction and payment APIs, account and entitlement checks, race conditions in balance updates, session handling across SSO, and exposure of data through reporting services. We also check how internal admin tools are exposed.
Companies here build compliance monitoring, KYC and document review products. These platforms hold identity documents, investigation records and privileged material for regulated clients. Clients expect those products to meet the standards they enforce.
What we focus onCase and investigation access, identity document storage, search across matters, export and sharing links, and audit trails that clients rely on for regulatory evidence. We also check role changes for reviewers and external counsel.
Belfast products are often used by security and compliance professionals, so these findings are the ones those customers would notice first.
A shared enrolment token lets anyone register a fake agent into a customer's tenant, injecting false alerts or pulling configuration. One leaked installer can compromise a customer's visibility.
Third-party credentials stored for integrations, such as cloud or ticketing keys, are returned in full by a settings API. Any tenant admin, or attacker with a session, can harvest them.
Concurrent requests to a transfer or withdrawal endpoint both pass the balance check. An attacker can spend the same funds twice before the ledger catches up.
Review platforms generate share links for evidence or KYC documents that remain valid indefinitely and are not tied to a user. Forwarded emails become permanent data leaks.
What UK pricing guides put a SaaS app with an API and several user roles at.
Sources: Stingrai Penetration Testing Price Index (Sept 2026, median of 30 G-Cloud 14 rate cards) and Cyphere’s UK cost guide (2026).
Per application · any size
£2,400flat
One application = one web product your users sign in to, plus its API. Mobile apps, internal networks and cloud reviews are scoped separately. Prices exclude VAT.
9 gates, the same sequence on every engagement.
Discovery
We send a short questionnaire to understand your infrastructure, business requirements and security concerns.
Agreement
We analyse your answers, define a clear scope and issue the Statement of Work.
Initiation
We walk through methodology, timeline and requirements, and access is handed over securely.
Active testing
AI-enabled coverage, then accredited engineers validate and exploit. High and critical findings are sent to you immediately.
Reporting
Every finding with risk rating, technical detail and step-by-step remediation, mapped to your controls.
Walkthrough
A session with your technical team to explain findings, priorities and remediation approaches.
Remediation
Your teams implement fixes. We stay available for guidance throughout.
Verification
We re-test every previously identified issue to confirm the fix and check nothing new was introduced.
Attestation
A final report confirming remediation and your improved security posture, ready to share with auditors.
Many Belfast companies sell into North America, where SOC 2 is the expected assurance. Independent pentest results are standard evidence for your auditor and for prospects reviewing the report.
Fintech and regtech suppliers to EU banks and insurers face DORA contract requirements. Regular independent testing with remediation tracking helps you meet them.
Mature product teams already hold ISO 27001. An annual CREST pentest with retest evidence shows auditors that technical vulnerability management is operating, not just documented.
Customers and auditors want independence. Testing your own product shows effort, but a CREST report from an outside firm is what procurement accepts. A fresh team also finds things your engineers have stopped seeing. Many security vendors use us for the product test and keep their own staff on research.
Usually. Send us the standard at scoping and we will map our method and reporting to it. We use recognised methods and risk ratings, and our engineers are CREST accredited. If the standard requires something outside a web application test, such as infrastructure, we will say so and scope it separately.
We test in a staging environment populated with test data, not real client records. If production testing is unavoidable, we agree limits in writing and avoid accessing personal data beyond what proves the finding. Evidence in the report is redacted. Our processes are ISO 27001 certified.
No. CyberFortify has no Belfast office. Web application and API tests run remotely, which is how almost all application pentests are delivered. Kick-off, critical alerts and the report walkthrough happen in UK working hours, and the price is the same £2,400 flat.
Our AI Pentest Agent covers the breadth of your app: mapping every page and API route and checking the known issues. That frees our CREST-accredited engineers for exploitation, access control and business logic. Fewer billable days means one flat fee instead of a day rate. Every finding is still validated by a person before it reaches your report.
Yes. CyberFortify is a CREST member company, accredited for Penetration Testing and AI-Enabled Penetration Testing, and a signatory of the CREST AI Charter. You can check our listing on the CREST Marketplace before you book.
One web product your users sign in to, plus the API behind it. Size doesn’t change the price: a large SaaS platform with many roles is still £2,400. A mobile app, an internal network or a cloud configuration review is a separate scope, and we’ll quote it on the call if you need it.
Yes. £2,400 per application, agreed on the scoping call before testing starts. The retest of your fixes is included. There are no day rates, so the invoice doesn’t grow if testing takes longer.
No. Cyber Essentials Plus is a certification with a hands-on check of five basic controls. It doesn’t test your application for vulnerabilities the way a penetration test does.
No. CHECK is the NCSC scheme for UK government and critical national infrastructure systems. If your contract names CHECK, you need a CHECK company, and we’ll tell you so on the call. CyberFortify is CREST accredited.
Testing usually starts within a week of the scoping call, and most reports are ready in four to seven working days. Criticals are flagged within 24 hours of discovery.
CyberFortify works under ISO 27001 certified processes. Client data from the engagement is disposed of afterwards, as set out in the statement of work. Every assignment carries professional liability insurance and Koop cyber insurance.
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Your first call is with Usama Gul, the founder and the engineer who leads your test. You’ll leave with a confirmed scope and a start date.
Prices exclude VAT. Price comparisons use published UK guides; individual firms’ quotes vary.
