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White-label pentesting
Security testing delivered to your clients under your own brand.
What it means
White-label pentesting means a firm delivers penetration testing to its own clients under its own name, using testing capacity or tooling from someone else. The client sees the agency’s brand on the proposal, the report and the retest. The provider behind the scenes stays out of view.
It suits agencies, consultancies and MSSPs that want to offer testing without building a full team. It is different from reselling: the reseller passes on someone else’s report, while white-label delivery means the branded report is the one the client receives, with the same standard of evidence.
Why it matters
Clients already ask their web agency or managed provider whether their site was tested. White-label delivery lets that provider answer yes without hiring specialists. It brings extra revenue and keeps the client relationship in one place, rather than sending the client to a stranger.
The risk falls on the brand. If the report is padded with unproven findings, or a client suffers a breach after a clean result, the agency answers for it. That makes the quality of evidence the main thing to check, more than the price or the logo on the cover.
How it shows up
In practice it means agreeing scope with the client, running the test, and delivering a report with the agency’s branding, executive summary and fix guidance. A good model also includes a retest so the agency can tell the client the fix was checked. Look for findings backed by evidence the agency can show.
Mistakes: promising a test without written permission from the client, unclear data handling between agency and provider, reports where nobody can explain a finding, and no plan for questions. Agree who talks to the client, how quickly fixes are rechecked, and where findings are stored.
Questions people ask
White-label pentesting, answered
Is white-label pentesting the same as reselling?
Not quite. A reseller sells a provider’s service under the provider’s name. White-label delivery puts the agency’s brand on the work, so the agency is the face the client trusts and questions.
Contracts should say who is responsible.
Who owns the report?
It depends on the agreement. Normally the agency delivers the report to its client under its brand, and the contract says what the provider may keep. Clear terms avoid disputes over reuse.
Check data handling too.
Do we need written permission from the client?
Yes. Testing without authorisation from the system owner can be illegal. Get a signed scope and rules of engagement before any test starts.
This applies however the work is branded.
How do we know the findings are real?
Ask what each finding comes with. Reports that include the request, the response and a way to reproduce it let the agency check and explain them. Unproven findings are harder to defend.
Sample reports show the quality.
Can an agency run it on a schedule for clients?
Yes, with tooling that supports scheduled runs or CI/CD. Recurring testing suits clients that ship often and want fresh evidence after each major release, not once a year.
That is how pentest as a service usually works.
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MSSP
A provider that runs security services, such as monitoring or testing, for other businesses.
Pentest as a service
Penetration testing bought as an ongoing subscription rather than a one-off project.
Rules of engagement
The agreed limits, times and contacts that govern how a security test is run.
Penetration test report
The document that lists what was found, how, how bad it is and how to fix it.
Retest
Running the test again to confirm that a reported flaw has really been fixed.
Whose name goes on the report?
Agencies and MSSPs can run Cyberlop under their own brand. Findings carry the request, the response, a screenshot where a person can see it and the line of code. Book a pilot on one app.
Or start with a $199 pilot on one application: thirty days, success criteria agreed before day one, credited against the annual if you convert.