Cyber Defense
VAPT services in India usually arrive as a PDF of scanner output with a logo on it. Ours arrive with the reproduction steps, the account we reached, and the one fix that collapses the chain. Vulnerability assessment tells you what might be wrong; penetration testing tells you what an attacker can actually do about it.
Aphelion Cyber runs both, in that order, across web applications, mobile apps, APIs, cloud environments, wireless and internal networks. The assessment is broad and automated because breadth is cheap. The testing is manual and narrow because proof is not. What you receive is ranked by what it reaches in your environment, not by a CVSS number copied out of a database.
Most engagements start with a scoped external test and grow inward. If you already know the target is one application, web application penetration testing is the narrower service; if you want an adversary rather than an audit, that is red teaming.
Why you need it
01 / 06It reports a missing HttpOnly flag and an outdated library at the same severity as an exposed admin panel. Ranking findings by what they actually reach in your environment is judgement, and judgement is the part you are buying.
A verbose error page, a missing cookie flag and an IDOR are three mediums on a scan report. Together they are full customer data access. No automated tool joins those three together; a tester does it in an afternoon.
Hand a development team thirty findings where eleven are wrong and they will stop reading the twelfth. Every finding we ship has been reproduced by hand, and the ones that did not survive validation are listed as discarded, with the reason.
ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS and RBI and SEBI expectations all ask for testing that was actually performed and actually remediated. A report with dates, scope, methodology and re-test results is the artefact that satisfies them.
Instrument
02 / 06Three instruments, running on clearly labelled sample data. The first is the whole argument for this page in ninety seconds.
What we deliver
03 / 06Authenticated and unauthenticated scanning across the agreed scope, tuned to your stack rather than run at defaults. Purpose: breadth. Methodology: automated discovery, service fingerprinting and version analysis, repeated on a schedule. Output: a full inventory of known weaknesses with confidence ratings and the ones we intend to validate by hand.
Manual exploitation of what the assessment surfaced, plus the logic flaws it could never find. Purpose: proof. Methodology: OWASP Testing Guide and PTES, adapted to your architecture, with chaining explicitly in scope. Output: reproduction steps, evidence, the blast radius of each confirmed finding, and the fix that removes the most risk per hour of engineering.
Business-logic abuse, authentication and session handling, access control between tenants and roles, injection, deserialisation, and the parts of your API that the mobile client uses but the documentation never mentioned.
From an assumed foothold: credential exposure, delegation and certificate template abuse, lateral movement, and the shortest path to Tier-0. This is where a chain of "medium" findings usually turns into Domain Admin.
Identity and permission misconfiguration in AWS, Azure and GCP, storage exposure, and network segmentation that exists in the diagram but not in the security group. Wireless coverage includes rogue access points, WPA2 Enterprise misconfiguration and guest-network bleed.
Every finding is re-tested after you fix it, at no extra cost, within the engagement window. The closure report is the document your auditor actually wants. It shows the issue, the fix and the verification, with dates.
How we run it
04 / 06We agree targets, testing windows, escalation contacts and what is explicitly out of bounds, in writing, signed, before anything is touched. Production testing gets a named contact who can stop us in one phone call.
Week 0Architecture, network layout, application stack, exposed services, certificates, subdomains and anything your own team has forgotten is still running. Much of what we find here never appears in an internal asset register.
Days 1-2Industry-standard scanners, tuned and authenticated, to establish breadth quickly. This is the cheapest part of the engagement and it is treated as a starting list, never as the finding set.
Days 2-3The engagement proper. Every candidate finding is reproduced by hand, false positives are discarded with a reason, and confirmed issues are chained to establish real impact: how far one of them actually gets an attacker.
Days 3-8Findings are ranked by exploitability, business impact and what they reach in your environment, not by CVSS alone. You get a short list of what to fix first, and an honest note on what can wait until the next release.
Day 9A written report plus a live walkthrough with your engineers, not a PDF over email. Once you have fixed things, we re-test and issue a closure report suitable for an auditor.
Days 10-12, then on your scheduleKey benefits
05 / 06Not a list of theoretical weaknesses, but the specific paths that work today, ranked, with the one fix that breaks the most of them at once.
Because every finding in it has been reproduced by hand and the discarded ones are listed with reasons. A report that is read is worth more than a report that is thorough.
Scope, methodology, dates, findings, remediation and verified closure, the exact package ISO 27001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS assessors ask to see, without assembling it later from memory.
Tools we use
06 / 06No “latest tech tools”. These are the ones your report will cite, alongside the manual work that a tool cannot do for you.
Discovery and reconnaissance
Assessment and scanning
Manual exploitation
Active Directory and internal
Mobile and code
And the part no tool does
Why Aphelion
SharedDarshap Nayak, formerly of KPMG, holds a master’s degree in cybersecurity and more than seven years in security operations. Jaimin Somani brings fifteen-plus years of academic and hands-on VAPT. Hemang Desai is an ICT network specialist from Australia. You will meet them, not a logo.
Meet the teamEvery finding arrives with the reproduction steps, the affected asset and the fix, ranked by what it actually reaches in your environment, not by a CVSS number copied from a scanner. You get the report and the raw output, not a summary of a summary.
See how we testAhmedabad and Sharjah, working the same methodology on the same tooling. Indian data-residency requirements and UAE delivery are both ordinary here, and the AphelioNYX AD Pen-Test module runs entirely inside your perimeter when regulation says it must.
The platformInvent a statistic to make a slide land. Publish your name as a client without written permission. Print an award badge nobody awarded. Founded in 2024. We say so, and we attribute experience to the people who have it.
Ask us anythingAcross the globe, and across eight industries. We name a client only with their written permission.
AphelioNYX is SOC 2, ISO and GDPR compliant; attestations are available on request under NDA. We would rather hand you the report than print a badge.
Questions
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