Penetration Testing for US Commercial
The US commercial market is the largest single buyer of penetration testing in the world, and the most opinionated. Series A-D SaaS — analogue stacks of Stripe, Notion, Webflow, Vercel, Supabase, Linear, Retool and the broader cloud-native estate — buys VAPT primarily to clear SOC 2 Type 2 under the AICPA Trust Services Criteria and to satisfy Fortune 500 procurement security questionnaires. US fintech and crypto buyers layer PCI DSS v4.0 and NIST CSF v2 on top. US healthtech — Oscar Health, Cedar, Hims, Ro and the telehealth and member-engagement cohort — runs against HIPAA Security Rule. AI-native products and LLM-backed SaaS — analogue stacks of Anthropic-style API products and the broader generative-AI tooling estate — add OWASP LLM Top 10 and prompt-injection / agent-abuse exposure on top of the standard application surface. AxVeil delivers vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and red team services for US commercial buyers — operator-led, named-operator engagements with fixed-fee USD proposals.
Engagements are served from our Bengaluru-headquartered team across the US — San Francisco, New York, Austin, Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles, Denver and Chicago. Time zone is the largest practical friction: India Standard Time is 9.5 hours ahead of PST and 10.5 hours ahead of EST, and we are explicit about it. EST overlap is workable — the US East Coast morning is the late IST evening — and we run async-first for PST clients with written daily digests, recorded video walkthroughs and scheduled live readouts in the early PST morning. Whether you are a Series-B SaaS chasing a Fortune 500 logo under SOC 2 Type 2, a fintech adding PCI DSS v4.0 segmentation testing, a healthtech preparing for an HHS OCR-aligned readiness review, or an AI-native product hardening its agent infrastructure, our methodology compresses 4-week manual audits into 10-14 day engagements. Reports map to SOC 2 TSC, NIST CSF v2, HIPAA Security Rule, PCI DSS v4.0, CCPA / CPRA / VCDPA / CPA, ISO 27001:2022, OWASP ASVS L2, OWASP API Top 10 and OWASP LLM Top 10 — so a single engagement satisfies multiple audiences.
The US commercial threat surface we scope against
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI and the AI-product surface each push a distinct threat lens. We threat-model these clusters first, then map findings to your auditor and customers.
Multi-tenant SaaS isolation
Fortune 500 procurement treats SOC 2 as table-stakes; the VAPT evidence is what makes it defensible. We hunt cross-tenant IDOR, broken object-level auth (API#1) and SSO/SCIM trust-boundary flaws.
AI / LLM agent abuse
AI-native products expose prompt injection, model extraction, excessive agency and tool-use abuse. We test against the OWASP LLM Top 10 and the autonomous-agent paths attackers actually chain.
Healthtech PHI exposure
Telehealth and member-engagement stacks carry HIPAA Security Rule exposure across the BAA chain. We test technical safeguards and the breach-readiness path against the HHS OCR clock.
Cloud IAM blast radius
Over-permissioned AWS/GCP/Azure roles and CI/CD secret sprawl drive lateral movement. We map reachability from a single leaked key through to cardholder data and PHI stores.
AxVeil does not serve US Federal Government, DoD or US Intelligence Community workloads. AxVeil is not a FedRAMP 3PAO and is not on the StateRAMP, CMMC C3PAO or DISA assessor lists. For FedRAMP authorisation, CMMC Level 2 / Level 3 assessments, StateRAMP and DoD IL2-IL6 work AxVeil is not the right vendor — buyers should engage a 3PAO directly. AxVeil's US focus is exclusively commercial: Series A-D SaaS, fintech, healthtech, cloud-native infrastructure and foreign-HQ companies with US engineering ops. The contracting path and federal-scope exclusion are stated in every proposal up front.
Industries we serve in the US
Series A-D B2B SaaS is the densest cluster — analogue stacks of Stripe, Notion, Webflow, Vercel, Supabase, Linear, Retool and the broader cloud-native infrastructure estate. Most of these buyers commission VAPT under one of three drivers: SOC 2 Type 2 window pentest, ISO 27001:2022 stage-2 audit prep, or follow-on testing after a material change. The SOC 2 driver is the dominant one — Fortune 500 procurement now treats SOC 2 Type 2 as table-stakes, not a differentiator, and the supporting VAPT evidence is what makes the report defensible. Named brands above are referenced as SaaS archetype examples, not as AxVeil customers.
US healthtech is the second cluster — analogue stacks of Oscar Health, Cedar, Hims, Ro and the broader telehealth, digital-health and member-engagement cohort. HIPAA Security Rule administrative, physical and technical safeguards drive the scope; AxVeil signs Business Associate Agreements as required. US fintech (non-bank) and crypto / Web3 round out the AxVeil ICP — PCI DSS v4.0 segmentation testing for card-data flows, NIST CSF v2 alignment, and the state-by-state data-protection mosaic (CCPA / CPRA, VCDPA, CPA, CTDPA, UCPA, TDPSA). AI-native products and LLM-backed SaaS layer OWASP LLM Top 10 on top — prompt injection, model extraction, agent and tool-use abuse, excessive agency in autonomous agents.
SaaS & API VAPT
Web, API, mobile and cloud penetration testing for US Series A-D SaaS shipping multi-tenant products into Fortune 500 procurement under SOC 2 Type 2.
Learn more →AI / LLM Red Team
Prompt injection, model extraction, agent-abuse and tool-use testing against US AI-native products and LLM-backed SaaS — OWASP LLM Top 10 aligned.
Learn more →Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2, NIST CSF v2, HIPAA, PCI DSS v4.0, CCPA / CPRA, VCDPA, CPA and ISO 27001:2022 evidence packs — multi-audience cross-reference in one engagement.
Learn more →AdSim
Continuous purple-team simulation against US SaaS production stacks with detection-engineering output for in-house SOC and US MDR providers.
Learn more →US frameworks and regulators we map every report to
SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria
Window-period VAPT under TSC CC7.1 / CC8.1 is the primary driver for US commercial SaaS engagements. SOC 2 Type 2 is the de-facto trust pack for Fortune 500 procurement and is the engagement we are scoped against most often.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework v2.0
NIST CSF v2 (2024) added the Govern function alongside Identify / Protect / Detect / Respond / Recover. AxVeil reports cross-reference findings to CSF v2 subcategories so the buyer's GRC team can map directly.
HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HIPAA Security Rule applies to Covered Entities and Business Associates handling PHI. AxVeil delivers HIPAA-aligned VAPT for US healthtech, digital-health and Business Associate buyers.
PCI DSS v4.0 / v4.0.1
PCI DSS v4.0.1 requirements 11.3 and 11.4 mandate annual penetration testing plus testing after material change for entities processing, storing or transmitting cardholder data. Internal and external scope, segmentation testing included.
California CCPA / CPRA
California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by CPRA) mandates reasonable security, breach notification, consumer rights workflow and contractor / service-provider obligations. Penalties scale per record / per violation.
State Data Protection Laws
Virginia VCDPA, Colorado CPA, Connecticut CTDPA, Utah UCPA, Texas TDPSA and the broader state-by-state mosaic apply to US-resident data. AxVeil engagements include a state-applicability gap note so the buyer's privacy counsel can map.
Why AxVeil for a US commercial engagement
AxVeil is operator-led. Founder Aman Kumar (OSCP, CEH v12) has direct delivery experience across India and MENA, including documented banking-sector engagements, and runs every US engagement under a named-operator model: the human writing the PoC and the multi-tenancy isolation finding is the same human on the readout call with your CISO and your SOC 2 auditor. US Series A-D buyers used to faceless big-four delivery — or to commodity scan-and-PDF pentest vendors — routinely tell us this is the most measurable difference, particularly for the speed at which a critical finding moves from PoC to fix in a Linear or Jira ticket.
Time-zone honesty: IST is 9.5 hours ahead of PST and 10.5 hours ahead of EST. EST overlap is workable for daily standups in the US morning. PST runs async-first with written daily digests, recorded walkthroughs and scheduled live readouts in the early PST morning (early-evening IST). If real-time collaboration across full PST working hours is non-negotiable for the buyer, we will say so in the proposal — cycle-time is a real constraint, not a marketing problem. Pricing is USD; we accept ACH, wire and Stripe; net-30 terms are standard. Engagements are served from our Bengaluru-headquartered team across the US — we are explicit in proposals that we do not maintain a US office.
Engagement model — Starter / Professional / Enterprise
SOC 2 Window VAPT
5-7 business days. OWASP Top 10, business logic, auth flows. SOC 2 TSC CC7.1 / CC8.1 evidence. Single web app + REST API.
Full-stack VAPT
10-14 business days. Web + API + mobile + cloud IAM + multi-tenancy. SOC 2 / NIST CSF v2 / HIPAA / PCI / state-law evidence pack.
Red Team / AI
4-8 weeks. MITRE ATT&CK adversary emulation, OWASP LLM Top 10 AI red team, purple-team detection engineering, multi-region scope.
Engagement timeline (typical 14-day Professional VAPT)
Scoping call in EST or PST (overlapping IST window). NDA + MSA exchanged under preferred US-state jurisdiction. Scope, RoE and asset list locked.
Recon + threat-modelling against US-relevant actors and frameworks (SOC 2 TSC, NIST CSF v2, HIPAA, PCI DSS v4.0, OWASP ASVS L2).
Active testing — web, API, mobile, cloud IAM (AWS / GCP / Azure), business logic, multi-tenancy. Daily Slack digest with critical findings.
Draft report: SOC 2 / NIST CSF v2 / HIPAA / PCI / CCPA cross-references with reproducible PoCs and developer-friendly remediation guidance.
Readout call in EST or PST. Free retest of remediated criticals within 30 days. Final signed PDF for board, SOC 2 auditor and enterprise procurement.
US Commercial FAQ
›Does AxVeil serve US Federal Government or DoD agencies?
No. AxVeil does not serve US Federal Government, DoD or US Intelligence Community workloads. AxVeil is not a FedRAMP 3PAO and is not on the StateRAMP, CMMC C3PAO or DISA assessor lists. For US Federal commercial-cloud-service-offering assessments, FedRAMP authorisation and CMMC Level 2 / Level 3 work, AxVeil is not the right vendor — buyers should engage a 3PAO directly. AxVeil's US focus is exclusively commercial: Series A-D SaaS, fintech, healthtech, cloud-native infrastructure and foreign-HQ companies with US engineering ops. Reference: https://www.fedramp.gov/.
›Can you turn around a SOC 2 Type 2 window pentest in 7-14 days?
Yes. SOC 2 Type 2 window pentest under TSC CC7.1 / CC8.1 is the most common engagement for US Series A-D SaaS. The Starter tier (5-7 business days, single web app + REST API) covers the standard SOC 2 evidence requirement. The Professional tier (10-14 business days, web + API + mobile + cloud IAM + multi-tenancy) covers the same plus ISO 27001:2022 evidence and NIST CSF v2 cross-reference. Both produce auditor-ready deliverables that your SOC 2 firm (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe-managed or independent CPA) can drop directly into the report.
›Do you handle HIPAA and US healthtech engagements?
Yes. AxVeil delivers HIPAA-aligned VAPT for US healthtech and digital-health buyers — analogue stacks of Oscar Health, Cedar, Hims, Ro and the broader telehealth and member-engagement cohort. Scope covers Security Rule administrative, physical and technical safeguards (with the technical safeguards as the active-testing core), Business Associate Agreement chain-of-custody review, breach-notification readiness against the HHS OCR clock, and where applicable HITRUST CSF mapping. We sign Business Associate Agreements as required.
›How does AxVeil handle the time-zone challenge from India?
Honestly: it is the largest practical friction in a US engagement, and we are explicit about it. India Standard Time is 9.5 hours ahead of PST and 10.5 hours ahead of EST (during US daylight time, 8.5 / 9.5 hours during US standard time). Our IST working day overlaps cleanly with the US East Coast morning (08:00-12:00 EST is 17:30-21:30 IST). For PST West Coast clients we run async-first: written daily digests, recorded video walkthroughs, and scheduled live readouts at 08:30-10:00 PST (21:30-23:00 IST). If real-time collaboration is non-negotiable across full PST hours, we will be transparent that we may not be the right fit on cycle-time.
›Which US industries does AxVeil work with directly?
Series A-D B2B SaaS chasing Fortune 500 logos under SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2022 — analogue stacks of Stripe, Notion, Webflow, Vercel, Supabase, Linear, Retool and the broader cloud-native estate; US fintech (non-bank) for SOC 2, PCI DSS v4.0 and NIST CSF v2 alignment; US healthtech under HIPAA; AI-native products and LLM-backed SaaS shipping into US enterprise procurement (analogue stacks of Anthropic-style API products); and foreign-HQ companies with US engineering ops where the parent-jurisdiction auditor drives the scope. The named brands above are referenced as SaaS-archetype examples, not as AxVeil customers.
›What is the typical engagement timeline and pricing in the US?
Pricing tiers mirror /pricing. Starter web + API VAPT runs 5-7 business days from USD 15,000. The Professional tier (web + API + mobile + cloud + SOC 2 / NIST CSF v2 / HIPAA / PCI alignment) runs 10-14 business days from USD 22,000-50,000. Enterprise red team and AI / LLM adversary simulation engagements scope at 4-8 weeks. All quotes are USD; we accept ACH, wire and Stripe. Net-30 terms standard for US-resident buyers with established procurement.
›How do you handle US state data protection laws — CCPA, VCDPA, CPA, and the rest?
Every US commercial engagement includes a state-applicability gap note covering California (CCPA / CPRA), Virginia (VCDPA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Utah (UCPA), Texas (TDPSA) and the broader state-by-state mosaic. The deliverable maps consumer-rights workflow, breach-notification timing, contractor / service-provider obligations and reasonable-security expectations to each in-scope state. Penalties under CCPA / CPRA scale per record / per violation; VCDPA penalties go up to USD 7,500 per violation. AxVeil delivers the technical and gap-analysis layers; downstream privacy counsel handles legal interpretation.
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Free 30-minute scoping call in EST or PST. We map your attack surface, name the frameworks you must satisfy, and quote in USD with net-30 terms.