For Ripon's holiday let operators, independent online shops and events businesses. No day rates.
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Ripon is one of England's smallest cities, with a cathedral, a racecourse and the Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal World Heritage Site close by. It is also a gateway to Nidderdale and the Yorkshire Dales. The local economy is mostly small businesses: holiday lets, hospitality, independent shops and event organisers. Many sell online through booking engines, shop platforms and their own custom sites.
Small firms rarely have an IT team, but they still take card payments and store guest details. Insurers, payment providers and larger partners increasingly ask whether a custom site has been tested. Day-rate consultancies are often out of reach. A fixed £2,400 CREST test, with retest included, makes independent testing realistic for a business this size.
Holiday cottage agencies, guest houses and hotels around Ripon run booking sites that hold guest names, addresses, arrival dates and payment references. A breach can also reveal when a property will be empty.
What we focus onBooking reference access, guest data exposure, availability and pricing manipulation, owner portal separation for letting agencies, and the integrations with channel managers and payment pages.
Local makers, food producers and specialist shops sell across the UK through custom or heavily customised online stores. Many have added plug-ins and integrations over the years without any security review.
What we focus onCheckout and discount logic, customer account takeover, admin panel exposure, outdated plug-ins and themes, order history access, and any third-party scripts loaded on checkout and payment pages.
Race days, festivals and heritage events rely on online ticketing and membership systems. Peak sales attract bots and fraud, and ticket holders' names, contact details and payment references all need protecting.
What we focus onTicket duplication and QR code forgery, booking limits and bot controls in the API, membership discount abuse, refund flows, and access to other buyers' orders.
On Ripon's booking, shop and ticketing sites, these are the problems a small business is most likely to have without knowing it.
Shop and booking sites built on popular platforms collect plug-ins over the years. Unpatched ones with known flaws are often the easiest way in, and automated attacks look for them constantly.
Booking confirmations or calendars that expose guest names and exact stay dates can tell someone when a home is empty. For holiday let owners this is a physical security risk too.
Tickets with predictable QR codes or IDs can be copied or generated. On busy race or festival days, forged tickets cost revenue and cause problems at the gate.
Small teams often share one admin account without multi-factor authentication. If that password leaks, an attacker controls the site, its orders and its customer data.
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.
Even when a payment provider handles card details, your own pages can affect card security. A pentest helps confirm your PCI scope is what you think it is and supports your self-assessment.
Insurers ask small firms about security testing, multi-factor authentication and patching. A recent CREST report gives you a factual answer to put on the form at renewal.
Guest lists, addresses and booking histories are personal data. A pentest and retest show the ICO that you took reasonable technical steps if something goes wrong.
Perhaps not the booking engine itself, which belongs to the provider. But many owners and agencies run their own website, owner portal or custom integration around it, and that is yours to secure. We look at what you actually operate and tell you honestly whether a pentest is worth the money for your setup.
The core platform is usually well maintained. The risk sits in what you add: themes, plug-ins, custom code, discount rules and connected apps. Most issues we find on small shops come from these additions or from weak admin access. A test checks your actual site the way customers and attackers see it.
Yes. We test well before the event, ideally on a staging copy. If we must test the live site, we agree a quiet window and limits so real customers are not affected. Book a few weeks ahead so there is time to fix findings and complete the retest before tickets go on sale.
No. CyberFortify has no Ripon 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.
