Melbourne's Top‑Rated Penetration Testing Services
Penva Security is delivering CREST-certified, human-led + AI penetration testing to Melbourne businesses across the SaaS, HealthTech, education and enterprise sectors.
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Why Melbourne Businesses Choose Penva
Melbourne is Australia’s SaaS and HealthTech capital – home to a deep concentration of scale-ups, the Parkville biomedical precinct, major universities, and Victorian Government workloads.
Every engagement is CREST-certified, human-led, and delivered with the ISO 27001, SOC 2, Essential Eight and HIPAA evidence Melbourne’s SaaS, HealthTech and education sectors need. We pair AI-accelerated reconnaissance for speed and coverage with OSCP- and CREST-qualified human testers for exploitation, business-logic abuse and validation – the combination that finds the vulnerabilities AI-only platforms consistently miss.
Industries We Serve in Melbourne
Melbourne’s economy concentrates particular industries – and each has a distinct testing profile. Below are the sectors we work with most often.
SaaS & B2B Platforms
Melbourne’s tech scale-up corridor – Cremorne, Richmond and the CBD. Web application and API testing, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 evidence for enterprise sales motions, plus post-release regression testing for teams shipping weekly.
HealthTech & Digital Health
Vendors clustered around the Parkville biomedical precinct and serving public and private health. HIPAA Security Rule + Privacy Act APP 11 evidence in one engagement, plus mobile app and API testing for connected-health platforms.
Education & EdTech
Universities, schools and EdTech vendors supplying the Australian education sector. ST4S (Safer Technologies for Schools) alignment, student-data handling testing, and Privacy Act APP 11 evidence.
Retail & E-commerce
Melbourne’s major retail HQs and the e-commerce ecosystem around them. PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4 testing, plus checkout, payment and customer-portal security.
Victorian Government & Suppliers
Vendors supplying Victorian Government departments and agencies. ISM-aligned testing, Essential Eight maturity validation, and evidence suitable for procurement responses.
Professional Services & Legal
Law firms, accounting practices and consultancies – handling sensitive client data with strict confidentiality obligations. Privacy Act APP 11 testing and incident-readiness validation.
How We Work With Melbourne Clients
Three engagement modes – and because we are Melbourne-based, on-site options are easy.
Remote · AU Jurisdiction
Fully remote testing, Melbourne-based CREST testers, Australian jurisdiction for findings. Daily progress updates and a shared tracker. The fastest start for the majority of Melbourne engagements.
Melbourne-based testers, AU time zone
Daily Slack / Teams check-ins
Shared live finding tracker
Faster start – usually within 5 business days
Hybrid · In-Person Scoping
Remote testing with in-person scoping, developer walkthroughs and executive readout sessions at your Melbourne office or a CBD coffee. The benefit of being local – no travel cost, easy to coordinate.
In-person scoping anywhere in Melbourne
Mid-engagement developer walkthrough
On-site final readout with executives
All testing remote, AU jurisdiction
On-Site · Internal & Sensitive
Full on-site engagement – testers physically present at your Melbourne office or data centre. Reserved for internal network testing, segmentation validation or projects requiring physical access.
Tester(s) on-site for engagement duration
Internal network and segmentation coverage
Best for sensitive infra systems
Same-week scheduling typical
Penetration Testing Services Available in Melbourne
Every penetration testing service we offer is available to Melbourne clients – and because we are local, in-person engagement is easier than anywhere else in Australia.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Manual, OWASP-aligned testing of authentication, access control, business logic and APIs – covering the OWASP Top 10 and beyond for SaaS, portals and e-commerce.
API Penetration Testing
REST and GraphQL testing against the OWASP API Security Top 10 – BOLA, broken function-level authorisation, mass assignment, excessive data exposure and injection.
Network Penetration Testing
External and internal infrastructure testing – exposed services, misconfigurations, privilege escalation and lateral movement, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
Cloud Penetration Testing
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud configuration and exploitation testing – IAM weaknesses, exposed storage, metadata abuse and insecure cloud-native services.
Mobile App Penetration Testing
iOS and Android testing aligned to the OWASP MASVS – insecure storage, weak crypto, certificate handling, API abuse and reverse-engineering resistance.
AI & LLM Penetration Testing
Testing for AI-powered products against the OWASP LLM Top 10 – prompt injection, data leakage, insecure output handling, model abuse and agent tool misuse.
Ready to Start in Melbourne?
Book a free 30-minute scoping call. Fixed-price quote within 24 hours. Human-led + AI testing. Audit-ready reports. Free retest within 60 days.
What Our Australian Clients Say
Real feedback from CREST-certified engagements delivered across Australia.
Michael Wendland
Partner at Bonsai
Reliable and professional penetration testing partner
Penva Security provided a quick and efferent pentest report that satisfied our needs and certification criteria. I would highly recommend them for penetration testing, and will be using his services again in the future.
Stuart Cox
Creative Director at NorthBase
Professional, communicative, and highly reliable testers
Penva Security conducted a penetration test of our webapp and produced a report of security issues. The team was professional and communicated well throughout, including giving us the expected timeline for the work and keeping us up-to-date as we progressed. The report was well written and I can recommend them to anyone looking for penetration testing.
Daniel Scocco
Founder at InstaDelivery
Working with third or forth time with Penva Security
This is the third or fourth time we work with Penva Security. They always delivers timely and great work. One of the best security experts I know.
Transparent, Fixed-Price Engagements
Penetration testing in Australia typically starts from AUD $2,000 depending on the type of test, the number of assets and the size of the attack surface. Get an estimated quote within 30 seconds – no surprise add-ons.
Fixed-Price Pentest
From A$2,000 / engagement
Pre-defined scope with clear deliverables – ideal for compliance-driven engagements.
- Human-led + AI-accelerated testing
- Audit-ready PDF report (ISO / SOC 2 / PCI DSS)
- Free retest within 60 days
- Letter of attestation
- 1:1 remediation walkthrough
Pay-As-You-Go
- Ongoing human + AI testing support
- Real-time issue notifications
- Direct Slack / Teams collaboration
- Test new features as they ship
- Pause or resume any time
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Penetration Testing in Melbourne - Common Questions
Direct answers to the questions Melbourne businesses ask most often. Updated May 2026.
Yes. We sign a mutual NDA before any technical or commercial information is exchanged. We can also work to your standard MSA, supplier agreement, or specific data-handling requirements common in Melbourne HealthTech, education-sector and government supply-chain procurement.
Yes — Melbourne HealthTech is one of our largest engagement areas. We test mobile health apps, clinician portals, patient-facing platforms and connected-device backends. A single engagement produces evidence aligned to HIPAA Security Rule (for vendors serving US covered entities), Privacy Act APP 11 (for AU patient data), and ISO 27001 / SOC 2 (for enterprise sales). See our HIPAA page for the US-side compliance detail.
Yes — this is our most common Melbourne engagement type. Most Melbourne SaaS clients book a single engagement that produces evidence aligned to both ISO 27001:2022 Annex A.8.8 / A.8.29 and SOC 2 Trust Services CC7.1, plus the supporting clauses each framework needs for stage-2 / Type II reports. One test cycle, two-framework evidence.
Yes. Most Melbourne clients receive a fixed-price quote within 24 hours of the scoping call, and active testing typically starts within 5 business days. Because we are local, in-person scoping can usually be arranged same-week — which is the fastest path for compliance deadlines.
Yes. We deliver ISM-aligned testing for Victorian Government supply-chain vendors, including Essential Eight maturity validation and evidence suitable for IRAP assessment packages. Australian-based testers and Australian-jurisdiction findings are the default for these engagements.
Yes — we work with clients across Greater Melbourne including Cremorne, Richmond, South Yarra, Hawthorn, South Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Carlton, Parkville, and out to Box Hill, Glen Waverley, Footscray and Geelong. Remote engagements work identically regardless of office location; on-site scoping or readouts can be scheduled at any Greater Melbourne location.
Penetration testing in Australia typically costs between AUD $2,500 and AUD $40,000 per engagement. Price depends on the type of test (web app, API, network, cloud or mobile), the number of assets and user roles, and the size of the attack surface. Penva Security provides a fixed-price quote within 24 hours after a free scoping call, with no surprise add-ons and a free retest.
Both, in the right order. We use AI and automation to accelerate reconnaissance, expand coverage and run regression scanning — but every exploit, business-logic test and finding is performed and validated by a CREST-certified human tester. AI gives us speed and breadth; humans give the judgment, exploitation and zero false positives that audit-ready evidence requires.