Startups

Your first enterprise deal wants a pentest

Trident attacks each deploy, proves what is exploitable, and opens the fix your next security questionnaire can cite.

Testing cadenceOne year, by week

Annual pentest

Trident on every deploy

criticalExploitable on the latest run

Coverage moves with your deploys, not your renewal date.

A deploy opened this path

Public webhook feature
Server fetches the address
Choke point
Cloud credential service
Customer file store
The route shipped in a deploy. So does the guard.

The gate every release runs

criticalCWE-918

A webhook feature fetches whatever address it is given

EntryWebhook test buttonImpactCustomer file store

Reproduced on a fresh deploy

Commit
Build
Trident scan
Review
Release
Every release runs the rail. One stage can stop it.

Inside a single run

Recon

A URL or repo maps routes, APIs, and cloud surface.

Path mapping

Each change traces into routes ending at customer data.

Exploit validation

A route becomes a finding only when it reproduces.

Draft PR + report

The fix opens against your repo; the report holds evidence.

The document the deal waits on

The pentest row on the security questionnaire, answered with a document instead of a promise.

  • Scans trigger from CI on each deploy, or on demand
  • Findings open as pull requests with the failing check attached
  • Evidence bundles reproduction, patch, and retest in one place
  • Cloud access is read-only, scoped, and expiring

What the security review will ask for

Enterprise security questionnaires converge on a short list.

Deal blockers

Most startups test because an enterprise security review is blocking a deal. That deadline shapes the answer: a scoped test, findings a small team can fix, and a retest proving closure. The flaw on this page is ordinary and severe — a webhook feature that will fetch any address you hand it, including the cloud’s own credential service.

A scoped penetration test
Defined targets, authorization, methodology and dates — the first thing a reviewer looks for, and what a scan report cannot substitute for.
Evidence per finding
Reproducible proof rather than severity labels, so your engineers can fix quickly and the reviewer can see the work was real.
Remediation and retest
A record that findings were fixed and verified. An open critical with a credible fix date beats a closed one without retest.
Cloud configuration review
The attack paths through your AWS, Azure or Google Cloud accounts — a short list, usually including an over-permissive CI role.
Tenant isolation, if multi-tenant
Whether one customer can reach another customer data. For B2B SaaS this is the deal-ending finding, and it is usually tested last.

Questions founders ask before the first test

Can we run this from CI?
Yes. A scan runs on a deploy and reports back as a status check, so a finding arrives in the pull request that introduced it.
What access does Trident need to start?
Read-only access to your cloud account, an authorized target, and test accounts at a couple of privilege levels. Environment readiness, not tooling, usually holds up a first engagement.
Is exploit validation safe against our app?
Findings are proven by reaching the thing, not by damaging it. Anything destructive runs against staging, and the scope you authorize is the scope that gets touched.
Do we need SOC 2 as well?
They answer different questions. SOC 2 attests that controls operated over a period; a penetration test shows whether the system resists attack now. Most enterprise reviews eventually ask for both.

Close the deal with the pentest done.

See a run attack your surface and open the fix.

A URL is enough to start.