We exist because annual pentest PDFs stopped being useful a decade ago.
PentStark was founded by operators to replace the one-shot audit with an always-on offensive practice — built for teams that ship daily and still need to pass the audit.
What we believe
Every engagement is led by practitioners, not a practice-area sales engineer. You talk to the people finding the bugs.
Reports are PoC-driven. Every finding reproduces, every remediation is engineering-specific.
Scope units and flat retainers — no per-consultant-day billing games.
Modern engineering ships daily. Security should match that cadence, not fight it.
We publish the frameworks, the tools, and the evidence format. Nothing is black-box vendor magic.
Operators who can't explain a bug to an engineer don't get to find them for our customers.
Our story
We started PentStark after a decade of watching engagement reports go untouched in a SharePoint drive. Engineers wanted fix guidance. Auditors wanted structured evidence. Leaders wanted a number they could trust. The one-shot annual pentest couldn't serve any of them.
So we built the practice we wished existed: a continuous engagement model, findings delivered the moment we discover them, unlimited retests within the window, and a report format a developer will actually read.
Three years in, PentStark is a distributed team of operators with delivery heritage from Fortune 500 consultancies, FAANG red teams, and independent research.
- 2022PentStark founded by three operators out of Bangalore.
- 2023First 50 engagements delivered. Published first CVE batch.
- 2024ISO/IEC 27001 certified. Cross-continent operator team expanded.
- 2025Launched PTaaS platform. Cross-100-customer milestone.
- 2026AI/LLM practice becomes the fastest-growing service.
Our team
Our engineers hold OSCP, OSCE³, OSWE, CRTO, CISSP, and CCSP among other credentials. We publish CVEs, speak at conferences, and maintain open-source security tooling.
Offices
Research & press
Public write-ups, conference talks, and disclosures from our research team.
Your next finding is one scoping call away.
Thirty minutes with a real operator tells us what you need and what we can deliver. No BDR handoff, no sales engineer theater — the person you talk to is the person who scopes the work.