A pentest report fixed line by line,
not filed away until the next audit
A penetration test report sitting in a shared drive protects nobody; the value only shows up once every finding is actually fixed and someone has verified the fix holds. We take your report, prioritize by real exploitability, fix each finding in your actual codebase, and retest before marking anything closed.
What it is
Penetration test remediation is the work that happens after a security report lands: reading every finding, understanding what an attacker could actually do with it, fixing the underlying issue in code or configuration, and verifying the fix actually closes the gap rather than just suppressing the specific test case that found it. A pentest report describes problems; remediation is where those problems stop existing, and it is the step that gets skipped or rushed more often than the test itself.
When you need it (and when you do not)
You need this right after receiving a penetration test report, whether from an internal review, a client requirement, or a compliance process, especially when the findings include anything exploitable without special access: SQL injection, authentication bypass, exposed secrets, broken access control between user accounts. It is also relevant when an earlier remediation attempt did not hold up to a retest, which happens when a fix addresses the symptom a scanner caught rather than the underlying flaw.
You do not need this service if your own development team already has the capacity and security background to work through the findings themselves; our value here is specifically for teams who need the fixes done correctly, prioritized sensibly, and verified, without pulling their own roadmap work to a stop for weeks.
How we build it
We read the full report first and reprioritize by actual exploitability and business impact, since a report’s own severity labels do not always match what matters most for your specific system; a finding that requires authenticated insider access is a different risk than one reachable by anyone on the internet, even if both carry the same generic severity label. Each finding is fixed directly in your codebase or configuration, Python/FastAPI, Node/TypeScript, your infrastructure config, whatever the finding touches, with regression testing to confirm the fix does not break working functionality elsewhere.
Before marking anything closed, we retest it ourselves using the same approach a pentester would: trying to reproduce the original exploit against the fixed system. A remediation log ties every finding to its specific fix and commit, which is what your security team or the original pentest firm needs to confirm closure quickly rather than re-reading your whole codebase. Findings that are really process gaps rather than code bugs, a missing change-approval step, an overly broad access grant, get flagged as such, since writing code to patch a process problem usually just hides it.
What to watch
Remediation without a retest is unfinished work; a fix that looks right in review can still miss the actual exploit path, which is why internal retesting is part of the engagement, not an optional add-on. Some findings point to a deeper architectural issue, an authentication model that needs rework, not a patch, and we say so plainly rather than applying a surface fix that technically closes the ticket but leaves the underlying weakness. This service fixes what a pentest found; it does not replace running an independent pentest in the first place, which stays valuable precisely because it is independent of the people who built the system.
Price and timeline
| Option | Price | What it covers | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| MVP | from $1,200 | Standard report, prioritized fixes, internal retest, remediation log | 1 to 3 weeks |
| Production | from $3,500 | Large or multi-system report, regression test suite, support through formal retest | 3 to 6 weeks |
Related
This pairs with secrets management and web application firewall and bot protection, which address common finding categories directly. It is part of development and audit. The hardening work here is close to what secured the Telegram Mini App infrastructure and the systems rebuilt in factory ERP recovery.
Ready to work through your report instead of filing it away? Get in touch and send us the findings.
FAQ
How much does pentest remediation cost?
From $1,200 for a report with a handful of findings in a single application; a report with many findings, or findings spread across several systems, is quoted after we read the full report.
How long does it take?
1 to 3 weeks for a typical report; critical findings are prioritized and usually fixed within the first few days.
Do you run the penetration test yourselves?
We focus on fixing and verifying findings from a report you already have, from your own security team or a specialist pentest firm; we are not positioning this as a substitute for an independent penetration test, since independence is part of what makes a pentest meaningful.
How do you decide what to fix first?
By actual exploitability and business impact, not just the severity label in the report; a 'critical' finding that needs a specific, unlikely precondition sometimes matters less in practice than a 'medium' finding that is trivially reachable.
Will you be ready for our next retest?
That is the goal: every finding is internally retested before we call it fixed, specifically so your formal retest with the original pentest firm confirms what we already verified, not the first real test of the fix.