Why a website pentest before launch is cheaper than after
A release without a logic review leaves holes where a storefront scanner stays quiet: other people's orders, roles and APIs.
Pentests used to be a bank purchase. Stores and account portals came later. The reason is ordinary: downtime and a leaked order cost more than a week of testing, and mass web attacks got cheap. Before launch a fix does not yet touch live customers.
What a pentest is not
It is not a "scan" button and not a hundred-page report for a shelf. Inside an agreed scope it checks what an attacker would do with your product: login bypass, access to someone else's data by changing an id, injections, weak API methods, file upload. A storefront scanner often misses this because the page looks fine.
Where to put it on the calendar
- Before live traffic, or right after a major release, while a fix is still cheap.
- As its own line if you run a server, VPN or mail on the same perimeter. A solid storefront does not save an exposed remote desktop.
- With a retest of the fixes. Otherwise the report records holes that simply stay.
A store and an account area need the check sooner than a landing with one form. A landing usually needs a basic audit and a strict form. Lexora runs a website pentest with a report development can actually use, and a retest of the closed items.
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Is the launch already on the calendar?
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