A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.
All compliance →Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.
All security →To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.
All industries →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →Dedicated pentest firms like Packetlabs and Vumetric do solid offensive work, and so do the testing partners we co-deliver with. But a standalone pentest hands you a list of findings and walks away. Someone still has to prioritize, remediate, re-test, and fold it into a real security program. That is the part we own. Here is the honest comparison.
We would rather tell you the truth than win a bad-fit client. Here is when the alternative is genuinely the better choice.
If that is you, a focused pentest shop is a fine choice, and we can recommend good ones. Many teams get the report, then have nobody to act on it, which is the gap we fill.
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| traztech | Pentest-only shop | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Strategy, remediation, and the program around the test | A scoped test and a findings report |
| After the report | We prioritize and fix the findings with you | You own remediation, the engagement is over |
| Offensive testing | Run by our offensive-security partner | Their core service, done well |
| Compliance fit | Folded into SOC 2 and your broader program | A standalone deliverable you map yourself |
| Who answers the auditor | We do, the pentest is one input we manage | Not their role |
| Re-testing | Built into the remediation cycle | Often a separate, additional engagement |
Every number below comes from an engagement record and links to the full case study.
An auditor testing your vulnerability management control does not want the report. They want evidence that findings were triaged, remediated inside your stated window, and retested. On a zero-exception Type II, that closure evidence is what was sampled.
Read the Type II case studyA dual-framework engagement covered three data centre sites with physical and environmental controls in scope alongside a datacenter platform, an AI compute platform, and a self-hosted collaboration stack.
Read the parallel engagementWhere a testing firm and a readiness firm are separate, somebody has to carry findings across the gap at exactly the point evidence matters. One engagement was placed with a single firm that was both a licensed CPA firm and an accredited certification body for precisely that reason.
Why one firm matteredMore at all case studies.
A findings report is only valuable if someone fixes what it found. We prioritize by real risk, remediate alongside your engineers, and re-test to confirm the fix held.
Testing is run with our partner, an offensive firm with deep hands-on and AI red-team experience. You get the test quality of a specialist shop inside a managed program.
Our principal has five published CVEs. Findings get triaged by someone who finds vulnerabilities for real, not just by severity score, so you fix what actually matters first.
The pentest is one input into SOC 2, your roadmap, and your auditor relationship. We connect it to everything else instead of leaving it as an orphaned PDF.
The offensive testing is run with our partner, an offensive-security firm with deep hands-on and AI red-team experience. traztech owns the strategy, scoping, remediation, and the program the test feeds into. One engagement, one relationship, with the specialist doing the specialist work.
You can, and for an independent test of a mature program that may be the right move. The gap is what happens after the report. A pentest-only shop hands you findings and leaves. We prioritize, remediate, re-test, and fold the results into your compliance program.
Yes, because the testing is done by a specialist firm. Our partner runs the offensive work. The difference is that with traztech the test sits inside a managed program with remediation, instead of being a standalone deliverable.
Yes. If you already have a recent pentest, we will triage the findings, build a remediation plan, fix what matters, and map it into your SOC 2 evidence. You do not have to re-test from scratch unless the report is stale.
Yes. The test is performed by our partner as an independent offensive firm, which preserves the independence auditors and customers look for. We manage the relationship and the remediation around it.
That is exactly the case we are built for. We triage it by real exploitability, remediate it with your team, and re-test to confirm. A pentest-only shop would hand you the finding and bill the re-test separately. Remediation is part of our engagement.
traztech Workspace covers the same self-assessment ground for nothing: every control in plain English, an evidence register, policy templates, a risk register, and vendor questionnaires. It does not do continuous monitoring or auto-collection, and we say so plainly. If all you need right now is to understand the scope, you do not need a subscription for that.
No credit card, no trial clock, no locked features. We make money when someone wants help closing the gaps, not from the Workspace.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.
Specialist offensive testing through our partner, wrapped in strategy, remediation, and a program that an auditor will accept.
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