For Lincoln's agri-food, engineering and workforce software teams. Retest included, no day rates.
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Lincolnshire grows a large share of England's vegetables, and Lincoln is where much of the technology around that work is developed. The University of Lincoln runs the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, with work on robotics, sensing and food supply chains. The city also has a long engineering tradition, including industrial turbine manufacturing, and several RAF stations lie close by.
Agri-tech and food software teams here sell into supermarkets, packers and large growers, whose supplier onboarding now includes security questions. Engineering suppliers face similar checks from industrial customers. A CREST report lets a small Lincoln team answer those buyers with the same evidence a much larger vendor would provide.
Platforms that track crops, batches, temperatures and audits sit between growers, packers and retailers. Retail buyers depend on that data for food safety and recalls, so they expect suppliers' systems to be tested.
What we focus onTenant isolation between growers and packers, editing of batch and audit records, sensor and telemetry ingestion APIs, retailer read access, and integrity of data used in recall or certification decisions.
Manufacturers of heavy equipment run portals for service records, remote monitoring and spare parts. Energy and industrial customers treat anything connected to their sites as a risk and ask for testing evidence.
What we focus onRemote monitoring dashboards, customer-to-site access controls, service engineer roles, document libraries holding technical drawings, and any web path that could influence the behaviour of connected equipment on site.
Farms and packhouses rely on seasonal workers, and the platforms that recruit, house and pay them hold passports, visas and bank details. Growers and labour providers are accountable for that data.
What we focus onIdentity document storage and access, right-to-work checks, payroll and bank detail changes, recruiter versus worker permissions, and translation or messaging features that accept user content.
Agri-food and engineering platforms around Lincoln often connect fields, factories and offices, and our tests usually find weak points at those joins.
Endpoints that receive readings from field sensors or cold stores sometimes accept data without a device key. Anyone can submit false temperatures or yields, corrupting records that food safety decisions rely on.
Batch and audit records referenced by numeric IDs may be editable across tenants. Altering another supplier's records could hide a contamination issue or wrongly trigger a recall.
Identity documents uploaded during worker registration are often served from predictable storage links with no login. Anyone who obtains or guesses a link can view passports and visas.
Admin functions that change user roles or approve records without anti-forgery tokens can be triggered by a malicious page visited by a logged-in manager, silently granting an attacker access.
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.
Supermarkets and large food businesses ask technology suppliers to evidence security testing. A CREST report with retest results answers that section of their onboarding in a form their teams recognise.
Industrial buyers often reference IEC 62443 for anything near operational technology. A pentest of your web portal and APIs supports your case, though it is not a product certification.
Passport, visa and bank details carry high risk if exposed. Testing shows you have checked the controls protecting them, which supports your Article 32 obligations and any ICO enquiry.
It depends on the system. Work for government or defence that specifies CHECK, or involves classified information, needs a CHECK company, and CyberFortify is not one. If the application is a commercial product that defence is one customer of, we can test it as normal.
We test the web application and the APIs that devices report into, including how devices authenticate and whether data can be forged. Testing the sensors, gateways or radio links themselves is a separate hardware engagement, scoped and priced on its own.
Yes, the retailer-facing API is part of your application and is included in the £2,400 scope. We test it with retailer-level credentials to confirm each buyer only sees the suppliers and batches they should, and that read-only access cannot be used to change records.
No. CyberFortify has no Lincoln 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.
