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Penetration Testing Australia

Name: Praxis-Q — Mohali, India
Address: SB Tower, E-190, Phase 8B, Sector 74, Mohali, Punjab, 160055, IN
Telephone: +91 9023444183
Price range: $$

VAPT for Australian Enterprises, Government Suppliers & Fintech - APRA, IRAP & Essential Eight Aligned

Praxis-Q delivers penetration testing and VAPT for Australian organisations - web apps, APIs, cloud, internal and external networks and mobile. Testing follows the OWASP Testing Guide and PTES and produces evidence for APRA CPS 234 control testing, IRAP assessment preparation, and Essential Eight Maturity Level validation, with a remediation-ready report and free re-test.

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At a Glance

Scope

Web/API/Cloud/Net

Methodology

OWASP / PTES

Delivery

Weeks

Market

Australia

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Praxis-Q delivers vulnerability assessment and penetration testing for Australian organisations - financial services entities regulated by APRA, government suppliers working to the Information Security Manual, and technology companies whose enterprise customers demand independent security testing before they will sign. Testing follows OWASP Testing Guide and PTES methodology across external perimeter, internal network, web applications, APIs, cloud environments and mobile apps, and every finding is issued with reproduction steps, business impact, CVSS severity and a specific remediation action rather than scanner output. Reports are structured so that the evidence maps directly onto the control-testing obligations Australian organisations already carry: APRA CPS 234 systematic testing, Essential Eight maturity, ISM controls, and the security expectations of the SOCI Act for entities in scope. Retesting of remediated findings is included.

Pen Testing Australia

Penetration Testing Australia

VAPT for Australian Enterprises, Government Suppliers & Fintech - APRA, IRAP & Essential Eight Aligned

The Problem

APRA CPS 234 control testing, IRAP assessments and the ACSC Essential Eight all assume regular penetration testing. Skip it and you fail the audit or discover the holes after a breach.

What We Do

Scoping
Recon
Exploitation
Reporting
Re-test

What You Get

Web app, API and mobile penetration testing
External and internal network testing
Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) configuration review
APRA CPS 234 control-testing evidence
IRAP assessment preparation support
Essential Eight Maturity Level validation testing
OWASP and PTES-aligned methodology
Free re-test plus attestation letter

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Why weeks, not months

AI-assisted evidence review, one client portal

Every Pen Testing Australia engagement runs on the Praxis-Q compliance platform. You upload evidence per control, AI scores it against the requirement, and your auditor reviews in the same workflow — from scoping through to the issued, publicly verifiable certificate.

AI evidence scoring

Every upload is scored against the control before an auditor sees it — gaps surface in minutes, not at the review meeting.

One client portal

Scoping, evidence, auditor queries and status live in one place. No email chains, no spreadsheet trackers.

Auditor sign-off

Praxis-Q auditors review inside the same workflow, so review rounds shrink and the certificate issues sooner.

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VAPT in Australia - Scope and Methodology

Vulnerability assessment establishes breadth, penetration testing establishes what an attacker can actually do with it, and Australian organisations generally need both to satisfy an auditor or an enterprise customer. Praxis-Q scopes VAPT across the external perimeter, the internal network, web applications and APIs, cloud environments and mobile applications, working to the OWASP Testing Guide and PTES. Automated scanning establishes coverage; manual testing establishes exploitability, chained attack paths and business-logic flaws that scanners do not find. Each finding is issued with reproduction steps, evidence, CVSS severity, business impact in your context, and a remediation action a specific team can own. Testing windows are agreed to avoid production disruption, and retesting of remediated findings is part of the engagement rather than a separate purchase.

API Penetration Testing

APIs are where most Australian SaaS and financial services breaches now originate, and they are systematically under-tested because a web application scan does not exercise them. Praxis-Q tests REST, GraphQL and SOAP interfaces against the OWASP API Security Top 10: broken object-level authorisation, broken authentication, excessive data exposure, missing rate limiting, broken function-level authorisation, mass assignment and server-side request forgery. Testing is driven from your specification where one exists and from traffic capture where it does not, covering authenticated and unauthenticated paths and each role in your permission model. Object-level authorisation flaws - one customer reading another customer’s records by changing an identifier - are the single most common critical finding and are invisible to perimeter scanning.

Cloud Penetration Testing - AWS, Azure and GCP

Cloud testing has two halves and most engagements only deliver one. Configuration review assesses the control plane - IAM roles and trust policies, privilege escalation paths, public storage, network segmentation, logging coverage, key management - against CIS Benchmarks and provider guidance. Penetration testing then assesses what is reachable and exploitable in the workloads themselves. Praxis-Q does both, and tests the path that matters most in practice: an attacker who obtains a low-privilege foothold and escalates through misconfigured roles into the rest of the account. Testing observes AWS, Azure and GCP customer testing policies, and we handle notification where the provider requires it.

APRA CPS 234 Control-Testing Evidence

APRA Prudential Standard CPS 234 requires regulated entities to systematically test the effectiveness of their information security controls, to test with a frequency proportionate to the rate of change and the criticality of the assets, and to have that testing reviewed by appropriately skilled and independent specialists. In practice APRA-regulated entities are asked to show not just that a test happened but that its scope covered material assets and that findings were remediated. Praxis-Q scopes testing against your information asset classification, and structures reports so each result maps to the CPS 234 obligation it evidences - scope rationale, independence, findings, remediation status and retest outcome - so the report is usable directly in your own reporting to the board and to APRA.

Essential Eight, ISM and IRAP-Aligned Testing

Australian government suppliers and their partners are measured against the ACSC Essential Eight maturity model and the Information Security Manual. Praxis-Q assesses Essential Eight maturity - application control, patching applications, configuring Office macros, user application hardening, restricting administrative privileges, patching operating systems, multi-factor authentication and regular backups - and reports maturity level per mitigation with the gap to the next level. Testing and reporting are aligned to ISM controls so the evidence sits alongside an IRAP assessment rather than duplicating it. Praxis-Q is an independent testing provider, not an IRAP-endorsed assessor: we produce the technical evidence an IRAP assessment consumes, and work alongside your assessor.

Reporting, Remediation and Retesting

Every engagement delivers a technical report with reproducible findings and an executive summary a board or a customer’s security team can read. Findings are prioritised by exploitability and business impact rather than raw CVSS, because a medium-severity flaw on an internet-facing authentication path outranks a high-severity one behind three controls. Remediation guidance is specific to your stack. Retesting confirms closure and produces a clean-status letter suitable for enterprise procurement, tender submissions and OAIC-facing evidence of reasonable steps under the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. Assessors hold CISA, CEH and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor credentials and engagements are delivered remote-first.

Related Services

VAPT (Vulnerability & Penetration Testing)Web Application Security Testing Cloud Security Assessment ISO 27001 Compliance & Certification SOC 2 Audit Services

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this support APRA CPS 234 and IRAP requirements?

Yes. Our testing provides the control-testing evidence expected under APRA CPS 234 and produces documentation that supports IRAP assessment preparation for organisations seeking to work with Australian government systems.

How does penetration testing relate to the Essential Eight?

Penetration testing validates whether Essential Eight controls - application control, patching, MFA, privileged access restrictions - actually hold up against real attack techniques, which is the evidence auditors expect behind a claimed maturity level.

Do you provide a re-test after remediation?

Yes. Every engagement includes a free re-test to confirm vulnerabilities are closed, plus an attestation letter for auditors and clients.

What does VAPT cost in Australia?

Cost is driven by scope - number of external hosts, applications, API endpoints, cloud accounts and user roles in the permission model - not by the client’s location. Praxis-Q scopes from an asset inventory and confirms the scope in writing before work starts, with retesting of remediated findings included in the engagement. Pricing is scoped per engagement - request a proposal. A single web application with an API and two roles is a materially different engagement from a twelve-application estate across three cloud accounts.

Does penetration testing satisfy APRA CPS 234?

CPS 234 requires systematic testing of control effectiveness at a frequency proportionate to the rate of change and asset criticality, reviewed by appropriately skilled and independent specialists. Independent penetration testing is a core part of that evidence but not the whole obligation - CPS 234 also covers information asset classification, the security capability of third parties, and incident notification to APRA. Praxis-Q structures test reports so each result maps to the specific CPS 234 obligation it evidences.

How often should Australian organisations test?

Annually as a baseline, and after any material change - a new internet-facing application, a significant architecture change, a cloud migration, or a merger. APRA-regulated entities should set frequency by the criticality of the information asset and its rate of change rather than defaulting to a calendar year. Organisations shipping continuously typically move to quarterly external testing with targeted application testing per major release.

Is Praxis-Q an IRAP assessor?

No. Praxis-Q is an independent security testing provider whose testing and reporting are aligned to the Information Security Manual and Essential Eight, producing the technical evidence an IRAP assessment consumes. We work alongside your IRAP-endorsed assessor rather than replacing them.

Do you test APIs and cloud environments separately from web applications?

Yes. A web application test does not exercise API endpoints or cloud control-plane configuration, and treating them as one scope is how object-level authorisation flaws and IAM privilege-escalation paths get missed. API testing runs against the OWASP API Security Top 10 across every role in your permission model; cloud testing covers both configuration review against CIS Benchmarks and exploitation of what is reachable in the workloads.

Will testing disrupt production systems?

Testing windows are agreed in advance and destructive techniques are excluded from production by default. Where a test carries genuine availability risk - denial-of-service validation, for instance - it is run against a staging environment or explicitly scoped out. Cloud testing observes AWS, Azure and GCP customer testing policies, including provider notification where required.