In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, companies are constantly searching for efficient, cost-effective solutions to safeguard their digital assets. NorDef, Nordic Defender’s crowd-sourced platform, offers next-gen, fully managed penetration testing.
What truly sets NorDef apart from other Next-Gen Penetration Testing services, is its dedicated team of expert security engineers—known as moderators—who manage the entire pentesting process from start to finish. This team ensures the highest quality results, offering comprehensive replication steps for each vulnerability, and providing detailed, actionable remediation steps.
This unique approach eliminates the need for internal resources to validate findings and remediation plans, saving time and reducing costs, while ensuring businesses receive timely, customized results that align with their specific security goals.
Let’s explore the distinctive benefits that make NorDef’s fully managed pentesting service a game-changer:
1. No Need for Additional Internal Resources
NorDef’s fully managed pentesting service streamlines your security testing process by handling the technical details and removing the burden from your internal team. This approach not only speeds up the process but also ensures a more accurate and cost-effective outcome.
What are the key benefits of NorDef’s Fully Managed Pentesting service?!
- With fully managed pentesting, you won’t need to hire additional staff or burden your current team with the hassle of validating results, or undergoing a trial-and-error phase to determine the best remediation approach. Instead, NorDef’s team of security engineers deliver precise, actionable findings that let your team focus on their core responsibilities.
- With NorDef, you no longer need to search for experts or match their backgrounds to your project requirements, as pentesters are uniquely assigned based on each project’s specific scope and asset type.
- NorDef’s technical project managers help you define and scope the project to align with your business priorities and strategic roadmap, while our team of security engineers AKA moderators review the scope in detail to accurately estimate the necessary penetration testing hours and prevent cost overshots.
- Once the pentest is underway, our security engineers verify the accuracy of each vulnerability, adjust severity levels, remove any irrelevant or duplicate reports, and ensure clear remediation steps, complementing the report in every possible way so your team can focus on enhancing overall security.
Result:
- Reduced operational costs
- No need for internal resources to manage or validate tests
- Your team can concentrate on their daily operations
- A smooth, streamlined pentesting process tailored to your specific project requirements
2. Elimination of Ineffective Remediation Plans & Incomplete Findings
A common challenge in pentesting is not just identifying vulnerabilities but ensuring that remediation steps are clear, effective, and actionable. Many pentest reports fail to provide detailed replication steps or offer generic remediation guidance, which can lead to uncertainty and inefficiency during the patching process.
At NorDef, our moderators validate every vulnerability and enrich each finding with detailed, context-driven mitigation strategies. Familiar with your business priorities, they prioritize security risks based on what matters most, ensuring critical vulnerabilities receive immediate attention.
What distinguishes NorDef’s moderation, though, is that our expert security engineers have access to all reports from multiple pentesters, enabling them to move beyond isolated findings. By correlating vulnerabilities, they assess their combined impact on your overall security posture, revealing hidden risks that might otherwise go undetected. This holistic analysis provides a deeper understanding of potential attack scenarios, ensuring a more effective and strategic security response.
Result:
- Faster, more efficient remediation
- Clear, reliable guidance for fixing vulnerabilities
- Reduced confusion with actionable insights
- Deeper risk analysis by correlating vulnerabilities across reports
- Uncovering hidden threats through combined attack scenario assessments
3. Timely, Customized Results with Ongoing Support
The true value of pentesting lies in receiving timely, accurate, and relevant results, helping you reduce your attack surface, meet your compliance deadline, and minimize exposure time. With NorDef, as the project starts, our team of moderators immediately begins assessing and confirming bug submissions, rapidly moving through the necessary remediation and replication steps.
This ensures that your findings are swiftly triaged and elevated, aligning with your specific needs and industry requirements. The result is moderated and customized reports that directly apply to your environment, reducing time spent on irrelevant data.
Additionally, our team of moderators provides ongoing support to ensure that the findings are in-line with your business’s security needs. The team is always available to answer any questions, with no time limits—whether it’s days, weeks, or even months after the reports have been delivered.
This continuous feedback loop means your organization is always ready to tackle emerging vulnerabilities and threats, mitigating any complications or delays that would occur in traditional pentesting processes.
Result:
- Quick, actionable insights
- Customized results aligned with your security goals
- Ongoing expert support to guide your security efforts
4. Transparent, All-Inclusive Pricing with No Hidden Fees
Another significant advantage of NorDef’s fully managed pentesting service is its transparent pricing structure. Unlike traditional pentesting services, which may have hidden fees or additional charges for validating or customizing reports, NorDef offers an all-inclusive pricing model.
The cost of moderation is fully included in the package, preventing any cost overruns or unexpected expenses. This means there are no surprises when it comes to costs, and everything from the initial test to reporting and moderation is covered.
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Result:
- Clear, predictable pricing
- No unexpected fees
- Simplified budgeting for cybersecurity efforts
5. Full Compliance Reporting for Industry Standards
Many industries require regular security assessments to remain compliant with regulations such as GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and SOC 2. NorDef helps businesses stay compliant by providing detailed, audit-ready reports that meet regulatory standards. We’ll also ensure that your pentest is completed ahead of your compliance deadline, allowing your business to meet all regulatory requirements on time and without delays.
Our reports deliver detailed, actionable insights that help your business maintain a robust security posture.
Read More: Compliance as a Code (CAC): The Future of Automated Security and Compliance
Result:
- Effortless compliance with security regulations
- Audit-ready documentation
- Streamlined reporting for security standards
6. Tailored Security Solutions with Full Vulnerability Tracking
At NorDef, our moderators take a proactive approach by understanding your business needs and planning accordingly. This foresight streamlines communication, eliminating unnecessary back-and-forth and ensuring our efforts align with your company’s priorities.
We also leverage the expertise of multiple pentesters, maintaining direct communication with them to integrate diverse insights into our assessments. This collaboration allows us to customize severity levels and remediation steps, ensuring that each report accurately reflects the true impact of every vulnerability.
Unlike traditional pentesting—which often provides only a snapshot of your security posture—NorDef delivers complete lifecycle management for each vulnerability, from submission to resolution. Our high-level status reports give management clear visibility into resource allocation, progress, and overall security improvements, ensuring that no issue is overlooked.
Result:
- Clear, easy-to-understand progress reports
- Customized vulnerability assessments tailored to your business
- Efficient use of resources with full transparency
- Proactive communication from moderators
- Actionable remediation steps that align with your priorities
7. Technical Account Managers (TAMs): Expert Guidance at Every Step
Beyond just security testing, NorDef offers businesses access to Technical Account Managers (TAMs). These dedicated professionals work closely with your team to offer ongoing support, guidance, and strategic advice. TAMs help you navigate complex security challenges, align remediation efforts with business goals, and ensure that your team understands how to maintain a proactive security posture moving forward.
Above all, TAMs ensure the quality of your pentest, timely response, and the timely conclusion of projects. They are accessible and available to answer any questions, keeping pentest quality, moderation response, and speed in check throughout the process.
Result:
- Personalized, expert guidance throughout the pentesting process
- Ongoing strategic support from security professionals
- Enhanced risk mitigation and security planning
8. Seamless Integration of NorDef Findings into Jira for Streamlined Development Processes
To further streamline the remediation process, NorDef integrates seamlessly with Jira, making it easier for development teams to track, manage, and fix vulnerabilities in real time. This integration allows for:
- Automatic creation of security tickets within your existing workflow.
- Tracking the progress of each vulnerability directly in Jira.
- Aligning security fixes with your sprint cycles, enabling your development teams to address vulnerabilities faster without disrupting their regular workflow.
Result:
- Faster, more efficient remediation
- Improved collaboration between security and development teams
- Clear tracking of progress for each issue
Conclusion: A Smarter, More Efficient Pentesting Approach
NorDef’s fully managed penetration testing provides businesses with a faster, more efficient, and less resource-intensive way to secure their digital assets. With expert moderators overseeing every step of the pentesting process, continuous support from Technical Account Managers (TAMs), seamless integration with development workflows, and comprehensive lifecycle management for each vulnerability, NorDef ensures timely, accurate, and actionable results.
This next-gen pentesting service is tailored to your business’s unique needs, offering clear remediation steps, reducing operational costs, and enhancing collaboration between security and development teams. NorDef helps you stay ahead of emerging threats while simplifying your security strategy.
Ready to strengthen your cybersecurity? Contact us today to learn how NorDef’s fully managed pentesting can transform your security strategy.