VAPT Services in Bengaluru
Bengaluru is the only city on the planet where a Series-A AI startup, a US Fortune 500 GCC, an RBI-regulated lending platform and a UPI payment processor are all within a 12 km radius of each other. The result is a regulatory stack that no other Indian city carries in the same density: SOC 2 + ISO 27001 for the GCC and product SaaS layer, DPDP Act 2023 over everything, RBI digital lending and account aggregator master directions for the fintech belt, NPCI UPI security guidelines for payment infrastructure, and CERT-In's 6-hour reporting window over the lot.
AxVeil works with Bengaluru engineering teams the way they actually ship — remote-first, over Slack, in IST hours, with daily critical-finding digests instead of a 90-page PDF dropped at the end of the engagement. We have served VAPT and red team work for B2B SaaS scale-ups along Outer Ring Road chasing US enterprise logos, deep-tech and AI startups in Indiranagar / HSR / Koramangala protecting model weights and agent infrastructure, RBI-regulated LSPs and digital lenders, and EV / mobility platforms securing connected fleets. Every engagement is benchmarked against SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, the DPDP Act 2023 and — where applicable — RBI digital lending guidelines, the RBI account aggregator master direction and NPCI UPI security guidelines. A typical SaaS VAPT ships in 7 business days; a SOC 2 Type II window report ships fast enough to land inside your auditor's observation period.
Why Bengaluru SaaS is a different threat surface
Bengaluru product companies face two threat models simultaneously — the global SaaS attack surface (multi-tenancy, OAuth, API abuse, supply-chain dependencies) and the India-specific regulatory perimeter (DPDP Act fiduciary obligations, RBI digital lending for the lending-tech belt, NPCI UPI controls for the payments cluster). Most Indian vendors test only the second; most US vendors test only the first. Both leave gaps.
Our Bengaluru engagements explicitly cover both. Multi-tenancy isolation, JWT and OAuth hardening, API business-logic abuse, AWS / GCP IAM misconfiguration, AI / LLM endpoint testing on the OWASP LLM Top 10, plus DPDP Act consent-architecture review and — for fintechs — RBI digital lending and NPCI UPI security mapping. One report, two audiences: your SOC 2 / ISO 27001 auditor and your domestic regulator.
SaaS VAPT
Web, API, mobile and cloud penetration testing tuned for Bengaluru product engineering teams shipping multi-tenant SaaS to US Fortune 500 logos.
Learn more →AI / LLM Red Team
Prompt injection, model extraction and agent-abuse testing for the deep-tech and AI startup cluster around Indiranagar, HSR and Koramangala.
Learn more →Compliance
SOC 2 Type II window pentests, ISO 27001:2022, DPDP Act 2023, PCI DSS 4.0 and RBI digital lending guidelines evidence packs.
Learn more →AdSim
Continuous purple-team simulation against your SaaS production stack with engineering-friendly Jira / Linear remediation tickets.
Learn more →Frameworks Bengaluru product teams test against
MeitY — DPDP Act 2023
www.meity.gov.inBengaluru SaaS firms processing employee, customer or HR data are Data Fiduciaries under the DPDP Act. Penalties up to INR 250 crore per instance. AxVeil delivers DPDP advisory directly — empanelment not required.
SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
www.aicpa-cima.com/topic/audit-assurance/audit-and-assurance-greater-than-socThe default trust pack Bengaluru SaaS firms ship to US enterprise procurement. Window-period VAPT mandatory for SOC 2 Type II under TSC CC7.1 / CC8.1. AxVeil contracts directly.
ISO 27001:2022
www.iso.orgISMS certification baseline asked for by enterprise buyers and government procurement. Stage-1 / stage-2 audit prep, Statement of Applicability evidence and operating-effectiveness sampling supported.
OWASP ASVS L2 + API Top 10
owasp.orgFloor for the production-app and API surface most enterprise reviewers expect. AxVeil engagements run ASVS L2 control-by-control with reproducible PoCs and remediation guidance.
CERT-In
www.cert-in.org.inAll Bengaluru-incorporated entities must report 20 categories of cyber incidents within 6 hours under the April 2022 directions. AxVeil is not on the CERT-In Information Security Auditor empanelment list — for empanelment-mandated audits we sub-contract via empanelled partner firms.
RBI digital lending (advisory only)
www.rbi.org.inBengaluru's LSP / DLA cluster falls under the RBI digital lending guidelines and FLDG controls. AxVeil delivers pre-regulator readiness, gap assessment and ongoing offensive security directly. The formal regulator-facing audit submission is delivered via a CERT-In empanelled partner firm.
7-day SaaS VAPT timeline
Scoping call with your founder / CTO / SecEng. NDA signed under Karnataka jurisdiction. Asset list, multi-tenancy boundary and SOC 2 / ISO scope locked.
Recon + threat model against your SaaS architecture — API surface, auth flows, tenant isolation, AI / LLM endpoints if applicable.
Active web + API + business-logic testing. Daily Slack digest with criticals as they surface — your devs can start fixing on day 3.
Multi-tenant isolation deep-dive, JWT / session hardening review, OAuth / SSO testing, cloud IAM checks for AWS / GCP.
SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / DPDP-aligned report shipped. Readout call with engineering. Free retest of remediated criticals within 30 days.
Series-C ORR SaaS — SOC 2 Type II window pentest in 9 days
Outer Ring Road B2B SaaS scale-up with 400+ engineers engaged AxVeil for a SOC 2 Type II window pentest ahead of a Fortune 500 onboarding. Result: high / critical findings triaged with working PoC, multi-tenancy isolation hardened, OAuth refresh-token flow fixed, and auditor-ready evidence delivered in 9 business days mapped to TSC CC7.1. Customer's SOC 2 report was issued without a qualified opinion. Detailed case study available on request under NDA.
Bengaluru FAQ
›Can you turn around a SOC 2 Type II window pentest in 7 days for a Bengaluru SaaS?
Yes. Most Bengaluru SaaS scale-ups need a SOC 2 Type II window pentest report within their auditor's observation period. Our 7-day fast-track engagement covers OWASP Top 10, business logic, multi-tenancy isolation, OAuth / SSO and produces auditor-ready evidence mapped to TSC CC7.1 and CC8.1.
›Do you do AI / LLM red teaming for the Bengaluru deep-tech cluster?
Yes. We red-team LLM-backed products against the OWASP LLM Top 10 — prompt injection, training-data poisoning, sensitive information disclosure, model DoS, supply-chain risk in model weights and embeddings, agent / tool-use abuse, and excessive agency in autonomous agents. Output is a developer-facing report with PoC payloads, not just a CVSS list.
›Is AxVeil empanelled with CERT-In for Bengaluru fintech / lending audits?
No. AxVeil is not currently on the CERT-In Information Security Auditor empanelment list. For audits where the regulator legally requires an empanelled signature — RBI digital lending guideline audits, RBI account aggregator audits, NPCI UPI scheme certifications, the formal RBI cyber-security framework submission — AxVeil delivers the technical engagement under sub-contract to an empanelled partner firm who signs the regulator-facing report. For SaaS, SOC 2 readiness, DPDP advisory, OWASP-aligned application VAPT and ongoing offensive security, AxVeil contracts directly. The contracting path is stated in the proposal up front.
›Are you familiar with RBI digital lending guidelines for Bengaluru fintechs?
Yes — at the technical and advisory level. We assess lending apps and LSP (Loan Service Provider) integrations against the RBI digital lending guidelines including the FLDG cap framework, KFS disclosures, escrow flows, customer-data segregation between LSP and RE, and the cooling-off period implementation. Pre-regulator readiness, ongoing offensive security and evidence-pack design AxVeil contracts directly. The formal regulator-facing audit submission is delivered via a CERT-In empanelled partner firm. Reference: https://www.rbi.org.in.
›Do you cover NPCI UPI security and PA / PG audits for Bengaluru payment companies?
NPCI scheme certification security audits and the formal PA / PG authorisation-track audit submission require a CERT-In empanelled audit firm on the signed report — AxVeil delivers the technical work under sub-contract to an empanelled partner who signs the regulator submission. Pre-certification readiness, ongoing offensive security against the UPI / IMPS / NACH integration surface, and merchant-side PSP integration testing (Razorpay / Cashfree / PayU) AxVeil contracts directly. Reference: https://www.npci.org.in.
›How does the DPDP Act 2023 apply to a Bengaluru-headquartered B2B SaaS?
If you process personal data of individuals in India — including employees, customer end-users or buyer-side contacts — you are a data fiduciary under the DPDP Act 2023. Obligations include consent architecture, purpose limitation, data principal rights workflow, breach notification to the Data Protection Board, and possible Significant Data Fiduciary designation. Penalties go up to INR 250 crore per instance. Reference: https://www.meity.gov.in.
›Are you remote-first or do you come to Whitefield / ORR offices?
Remote-first by default — testing, daily standups and the readout call run over Slack / Teams / Zoom in IST hours. Engagements are served across Whitefield, ORR, Electronic City, Koramangala, Indiranagar, HSR and Manyata. Onsite kick-offs for sensitive internal AD or SOC 2 walkthroughs are arranged on a per-engagement basis.
›Do you sign MSAs governed by Karnataka jurisdiction and raise GST invoices?
Yes. We sign MSAs and DPAs under Indian law with jurisdiction in Bengaluru courts, raise GST-compliant INR invoices, and accept payments in INR or USD via wire or Stripe. We also support TDS deduction at 2% / 10% as applicable.
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