Cyber Defense
Web application penetration testing in India is often sold by the hour and delivered by a scanner. The difference shows up in one place: whether the report can tell you which record an attacker reads, in which table, as which user. Ours can, because someone read it.
Your web application is usually the shortest route to your most sensitive data. It authenticates people, it holds sessions, it queries the database, and it does all of it over the open internet. We test it the way an attacker would, authenticated as each role you have, looking for the request that should have been refused and was not.
Testing covers authentication and session handling, authorisation between users and tenants, input handling and injection, file upload, deserialisation, and the business logic that no tool understands. Where the application is backed by an API, we test that too; see API security assessment. Where the source is available, source code security review finds the class of bug rather than the instance.
Why you need it
01 / 06Firewalls, segmentation and VPNs do nothing for a flaw that reaches your database through a request your application is supposed to accept. The login page is the perimeter now, and it is open to the entire internet by design.
Changing an ID in a URL and seeing another customer's invoice is the most common serious finding in commercial web testing, and no automated tool can tell that the invoice was not yours. It requires two accounts, a tester, and a matrix of who should be able to reach what.
A feature shipped on Friday can undo a control added in March. Applications under active development need testing tied to the release cycle, not to the compliance calendar.
Enterprise procurement questionnaires, ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 all want evidence of application-layer testing with demonstrated remediation. A closure report ends that conversation in one attachment.
Instrument
02 / 06Left, what the automated pass reports. Right, what survives validation, and what the survivors chain into.
What we deliver
03 / 06Password policy and reset flows, multi-factor bypass, session fixation and invalidation, token entropy and lifetime, remember-me handling, and the account-recovery path that everyone forgets is a second front door.
A full role matrix, tested request by request. Horizontal escalation between users, vertical escalation between roles, tenant isolation in multi-tenant products, and direct object references in URLs, request bodies and API calls the front end never shows.
SQL and NoSQL injection, command and template injection, server-side request forgery, XML external entities, and unsafe deserialisation, each proved with a payload and evidence, not flagged from a version banner.
Stored, reflected and DOM-based cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery on state-changing endpoints, clickjacking, postMessage handling, and the content-security policy that would have contained most of it.
Negative quantities, replayed discount codes, race conditions on balance updates, workflow steps completed out of order, and rate limits that count the wrong thing. This is the category tools cannot reach and attackers reliably find.
Security headers, TLS configuration, exposed debug endpoints and stack traces, backup and source files left in the web root, secrets in JavaScript bundles, and third-party libraries with known and reachable vulnerabilities.
How we run it
04 / 06The application's surface: routes, technologies, frameworks, hosts, subdomains, third-party components and any staging or admin instance that is reachable and should not be. Scope and rules of engagement are signed before this starts.
Day 1Authenticated scans with Burp Suite Professional and OWASP ZAP, plus template-driven checks with Nuclei, to establish breadth. Treated as a candidate list, never as findings.
Day 2Manual exploration for what tools miss: undocumented parameters, hidden fields, legacy endpoints still routed, and the API calls the single-page front end makes but never links to.
Days 2-3Each candidate is assessed for real exploitability and business impact in your context. False positives are discarded and listed with the reason each was ruled out.
Days 3-4Confirmed issues are exploited under written authorisation to establish blast radius, and chained where they combine. Destructive payloads are not used; proof stops at the point it becomes evidence.
Days 4-7An executive summary, a technical report with reproduction steps and evidence, a prioritised fix list, and a live session with your engineers to work through it.
Days 8-9Every remediated finding is re-tested inside the engagement window at no extra cost, and we check that the fix did not introduce something new. The closure report is what your auditor wants to see.
After your fixesKey benefits
05 / 06Not a severity histogram, but the specific records an attacker gets to, as which role, through which request, and the one change that closes the route.
Findings arrive with reproduction steps, the affected code path where we can identify it, and a remediation that a developer can act on without a follow-up call.
A dated, scoped report with verified closure answers the application-security section of almost every enterprise security questionnaire.
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.
Interception and manual testing
Discovery
Exploitation
Dependencies and code
Methodology
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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