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Penetration Testing · E-commerce

Penetration Testing for E-commerce

Your checkout is the money path, and PCI DSS expects an annual penetration test on top of your regular scanning. We test the storefront, the checkout, and the payment surface.

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Why E-commerce companies need Penetration Testing

  • PCI DSS mandates both regular vulnerability scanning and an annual penetration test, and the two are not interchangeable.
  • The checkout and the payment path are where cardholder data lives, which makes them the highest-value target on the store and the priority in scope.
  • Storefronts run on themes, plugins, and third-party scripts, and PCI DSS v4.0.1 added more prescriptive requirements around scripts on payment pages.
  • Business-logic flaws in cart, pricing, discount, and refund flows cause direct financial loss and rarely show up in a scan.

More context on this sector on our E-commerce industry page.

What our Penetration Testing engagement covers

Tailored to E-commerce, delivered by a Toronto security and compliance team led by a published security researcher, with our offensive-security partner where offensive testing is involved.

  • Testing of the checkout and payment path, including third-party scripts on payment pages
  • Cart, pricing, discount, and refund business-logic testing
  • Scoping against your real threat model and attack surface
  • Web application testing (OWASP Top 10, authentication, business logic)
  • External / internal network and cloud configuration testing
  • Prioritized remediation report and a free retest of critical findings

See the full Penetration Testing service page, or productized pricing for fixed-scope engagements.

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Penetration Testing for E-commerce: common questions

Does PCI DSS require a penetration test?

It expects regular vulnerability scanning and an annual penetration test, and a scan is not a substitute for the test. We scope the pentest around your cardholder data environment so it lines up with your PCI work.

Our checkout is hosted by our payment provider. Is there anything left to test?

Yes. A hosted or tokenized checkout reduces your PCI scope but does not eliminate your obligations. The storefront, the integration, the admin, and the pages your customers type into are still yours, and that is where we test.

Who performs the testing?

traztech scopes the engagement against your threat model; testing is delivered with our offensive-security partner, and critical findings get a free retest.

Penetration Testing for E-commerce, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We will tell you whether this engagement fits, what it would cost, and when we could start.

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The same work, without the line item

Every readiness programme needs a control library, an evidence register, policies and a score for the board. Being quoted five figures a year for that is normal. Paying it is not.

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 $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.

Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

Published vulnerability research

Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.

The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.

The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.

Recent engagements

For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.

For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.