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Stop Testing Once a Year. Start Testing Continuously.
Annual pentests leave 364 days of blind spots. Revelion tests when you deploy, when you change, and on whatever schedule you set.
What you get
- Eliminate the 364-day gap between annual pentest engagements
- Post-deployment testing catches vulnerabilities before attackers do
- Scheduled scans run automatically on your timeline, not a consultant's
- On-demand tests run in hours, not weeks, when you need immediate answers
- Limited schedules on MSP Basic
- Results that reflect your current state, not last year's snapshot
Continuous penetration testing is the practice of testing your application's security posture on an ongoing basis rather than in a single annual engagement. Revelion makes continuous testing practical by delivering results in hours, supporting scheduled and on-demand testing from a single platform, and automating the reporting that makes each test's findings actionable.
The annual pentest model made sense when testing required significant manual effort and specialist availability was limited. Neither constraint applies anymore.
The 364-Day Blind Spot
An annual pentest tells you what your security posture looked like on one day each year. From the moment the engagement ends, the clock starts on the next 364-day gap. New features get deployed. Dependencies get updated. Configurations change. Third-party integrations get added. Each change is a potential new attack surface that exists untested until the next annual engagement.
Attackers do not wait for annual cycles. They are actively looking for newly introduced vulnerabilities continuously, and they have automated tools to find them quickly. The question is whether you find those vulnerabilities first or whether an attacker does.
Three Testing Modes
Revelion supports three complementary testing modes that together eliminate the blind spots in traditional security testing.
On-demand testing runs immediately when you need it. A developer deploys a new feature and wants to test it before release. A security incident creates questions about adjacent attack surfaces. An auditor requests evidence of recent testing. You launch the test and have results in hours.
Scheduled testing runs automatically on the timeline you set. Weekly tests for actively developed applications. Monthly tests for stable applications. Every Friday evening so results are ready for Monday review. MSP Basic includes limited schedules, with higher tiers adding expanded schedule capacity.
Post-deployment testing runs immediately after a deployment completes. Integrate Revelion into your CI/CD pipeline and security testing becomes part of the deployment process rather than a separate activity that happens infrequently.
Results in Hours, Not Weeks
Traditional pentesting has a minimum elapsed time from decision to results of roughly six weeks: four to eight weeks for scheduling, several days for testing, one to three weeks for reporting. That timeline makes continuous testing operationally impossible.
Revelion assessments complete in 2 to 8 hours depending on scope. From launching the test to reading the final report, the elapsed time is measured in hours rather than weeks. That speed is what makes continuous testing practical rather than theoretical.
Building a Security Testing History
Continuous testing builds a record. Every completed assessment is documented with its scope, findings, severity distribution, and remediation status. Over time, this history demonstrates trending security posture: are you resolving findings faster? Are the same vulnerability classes recurring? Are new deployments introducing new risk categories?
This history is also audit-ready evidence. Rather than a single annual report, you have a continuous record of testing activity that satisfies compliance frameworks' increasing preference for ongoing assurance over point-in-time snapshots.
Questions
Common questions
- What is continuous penetration testing?
- Continuous penetration testing replaces the traditional annual point-in-time engagement with ongoing security testing that happens on demand, on a schedule, or triggered by deployments. Instead of assessing your security posture once a year, you test continuously as your application evolves. The result is a real-time understanding of your risk rather than a snapshot that becomes outdated the day after delivery.
- How often should I run penetration tests?
- At minimum, test after every significant deployment, dependency update, or infrastructure change. MSP Basic includes limited schedules for recurring testing. For stable applications, monthly testing maintains continuous assurance. For applications with compliance requirements, quarterly testing often satisfies framework demands while building the continuous evidence trail auditors increasingly expect.
- How long does a Revelion pentest take?
- Most assessments complete in 2 to 8 hours depending on scope and application complexity. A focused test on a single application or component typically runs in 2 to 4 hours. Comprehensive assessments covering large applications with many endpoints take longer. Compare that to traditional pentesting: scheduling alone takes 4 to 8 weeks, followed by a testing window of several days and a report delivery of 1 to 3 weeks.
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