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Cobalt vs Compliance-Only Pentesting Providers

Don’t trade quality for cost, get both security and compliance from a proven vendor

Why settle for superficial, automated compliance testing? Cobalt provides thorough, human-led testing to meet both security and compliance needs, offering deeper insights and better risk reduction.

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The Cobalt Differentiators: Speed, Scale, and Expertise

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Check-box compliance testing, while important, doesn’t give you the depth or quality of information you need to secure your applications and reduce risk. Low-cost, compliance-only pentest providers promise to save you money and get your pentest completed quickly. But what you gain in price and efficiency (testing periods are shorter because of the lack of depth) you lose in quality. What they call a pentest is usually similar to an automated DAST scan with a brief human review. 

In addition to the lack of quality findings, customers often find that these budget PTaaS providers are difficult to work with and don’t care about their experience as a customer. 

Security conscious buyers that value expertise and speed choose Cobalt. Even if you are on a budget, you can still get quality results to improve security and reduce risk, while meeting your compliance requirements.

 

  Cobalt PTaaS Compliance-Only Testing
Compliance frameworks including SOC2, PCI, NIST, HIPAA, CREST, and more
Automated Scanning
Human-led testing
All findings reviewed by an expert pentester
Robust Methodologies
High-quality findings
Customized reports for all stakeholders
Real time communication
CI/CD Integrations
Customer Support
Free Restesting
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Arnau Estebanell,
Lead Security Engineer at Personio
"We wanted to move beyond just 'checking the box' on pentesting. Cobalt enabled us to build a modern pentesting program with multiple assessments throughout the year. Their platform provides a central hub to orchestrate everything—from strategically planning tests to benchmarking our remediation speed against industry peers. We're now proactively managing risk through a continuous, data-driven security program."
customer stories
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Operations and Security Program Manager,
Software Development Company

“They don’t actually have human pentesters. They ran vulnerability scans and then a person would review the scans and send it to us. A lot of context was missing from their ‘pentests.’ This caused a lot of friction for our engineering team.”

Customer Stories

Ready to up-level your offensive security?

Empower your security and development teams with the information they need to find and fix vulnerabilities. Cobalt helps identify the most important, validated exploits and how to fix them. Connect findings from any Cobalt Offensive Security Testing service into your remediate workflows so you never miss a vulnerability. Connect with Cobalt today to see the platform in action and explore our integrations.

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