Government & Defense Pentesting & VAPT
CERT-In empanelled VAPT and CREST-aligned pentesting for government, PSU and critical-infrastructure operators.
Public-sector workloads need defensible, locally-acceptable evidence. StartSecure delivers CERT-In empanelled VAPT for India and CREST-aligned testing for the UK and Commonwealth — with on-site, cleared-resource options where required.
Attack patterns specific to Government & Defense
Citizen-data exposure
Aadhaar/eKYC, tax, land and welfare data leakage through unprotected APIs and portals.
Legacy & critical-infra weakness
Unpatched portals, exposed RDP/SMB, vendor backdoors, ICS/SCADA exposure.
Nation-state TTPs
Phishing → AD compromise → lateral movement → data exfil chains modeled.
Supply-chain / vendor risk
Third-party SI access, jump-host abuse, golden-image tampering.
Our government & defense testing approach
CERT-In empanelled methodology
Compliant with CERT-In's empanelment requirements and reporting expectations.
Cleared, on-site resources
Indian-national, NDA-bound pentesters available for sensitive scopes.
Red-team & purple-team
Full kill-chain attack simulation aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and SOC detection uplift.
What you get
- Locally-defensible reports — accepted by ministry, PSU and regulator auditors.
- Detection-engineering uplift via purple-team exercises.
- On-site, air-gapped engagement options.
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