Reduce High VAPT Costs & Delays With Comprehensive Mobile App Security
Traditional VAPT engagements are important for identifying security weaknesses, but relying only on periodic assessments can create delays between vulnerability discovery, remediation, validation, and release.
For mobile applications that undergo frequent releases, security testing needs to become more continuous. Automated testing, security checks, runtime protection, and faster validation can help teams identify and address security risks throughout the application lifecycle.
What Is VAPT?
Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) helps organisations identify security weaknesses through structured security assessments. VAPT often depends on scheduled engagements, automated and manual testing, specialist availability, and defined testing windows with specific cost.
When applications are frequently updated, vulnerabilities can be introduced between assessments. Teams may then need additional testing cycles to validate fixes, investigate new releases, or meet security requirements.
This can increase testing cost, release timelines, security workload, and dependency on repeated manual assessments.
Major Challenges With Traditional VAPT
High Cost of Repeated Assessments
Long Testing Cycles
Manual Security Validation
Limited Testing Frequency
Delayed Vulnerability Identification
Retesting After Every Major Change
Security Bottlenecks in Releases
Limited Continuous Visibility
VAPT happens once in 6 or 12 months
Often carried out as part of compliance and just achieve cert-in certificate
Why Is Traditional VAPT Becoming Harder to Scale?
81% of Security Reviews Take Over a Day
81% of companies report that security reviews take more than one business day, while 35% wait longer than three business days.
46% of Major Code Changes Go Without Security Review
46% of major code changes do not undergo security review, while 22% of organisations review a quarter or less of their code.
77% Retain Critical Vulnerabilities for Over 90 Days
77% of organisations retain high or critical container vulnerabilities for more than 90 days, allowing security risks to persist.
Only 48% of Pentest Findings Get Resolved
Less than half of identified penetration testing findings are resolved, increasing to 69% for the highest-risk findings.
VAPT Delays Can Become Business Risk
When security testing becomes a bottleneck, organisations may delay releases, repeat assessments, or make security decisions with incomplete information.
For CISOs, CTOs, Heads of Information Security, AppSec, DevSecOps, developers, and security teams, this creates a critical question:
Can security testing keep pace with the speed at which your mobile application changes?
High VAPT dependency and testing delays can contribute to:
Why Is Continuous Security Testing Important?
VAPT remains an important part of application security, but it should not be the only security activity performed during the application lifecycle.
A stronger approach combines:
Static Testing + Dynamic Testing + API Security Testing + Red Teaming + Continuous Runtime Security + Real Time Visibility
Security testing can identify weaknesses before deployment, while runtime controls can provide protection after the application reaches users.
This creates a more continuous security approach instead of depending entirely on periodic assessments.
What Bugsmirror MASST Delivers?
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