SaaS & Technology

Cybersecurity for SaaS & technology

SOC 2 and ISO 27001 on Hyperproof, plus penetration testing — the Passeca bundle that unblocks enterprise sales and hardens your application, APIs and cloud.

Passeca's SaaS and technology bundle is anchored in SOC 2 and ISO 27001 — assurance frameworks often requested by enterprise buyers. The package combines compliance automation on Hyperproof, SOC 2 readiness, and penetration testing, so customer security questionnaires are answered fast and the application, API and cloud attack surface is hardened by one partner.

Regulation & threats

What defines SaaS & technology cybersecurity?

SaaS security is driven by buyer-driven certification gating and by the application, API and multi-tenant attack surface that a fast-moving engineering team constantly changes.

Regulatory anchors

SOC 2 & ISO 27001

SOC 2 attests to trust-services controls; ISO 27001 certifies an information-security management system. Both are commonly requested in enterprise SaaS procurement. Passeca maps controls once in Hyperproof so evidence serves both — and customer security questionnaires — from the same source.

Threat

Customer trust & sales gating on certifications

Enterprise buyers often hold SaaS deals behind security questionnaires and ask for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 before signing. Without certifications, pipeline stalls and revenue slips.

Threat

API vulnerabilities

APIs are the integration surface every SaaS product exposes. Broken authentication, authorisation flaws (including BOLA), unrestricted resource consumption and injection are API security risks addressed by OWASP guidance — and are actively exploited.

Threat

Tenant isolation failures

In multi-tenant SaaS, a flaw that lets one customer reach another's data is a company-ending vulnerability. Isolation must be enforced at every layer — application, database and infrastructure.

The Passeca bundle

The Passeca bundle for SaaS & technology

Compliance automation, certification readiness and offensive testing — assembled to unblock enterprise sales and defend the application and API surface.

Hyperproof — GRC automation

Automated evidence collection across 160+ prebuilt frameworks, integrations with AWS, Azure, Jira and Slack, and a reusable answer library that turns customer security questionnaires from a deal-stalling chore into a fast, accurate response.

Hyperproof

SOC 2 compliance

Trust-services criteria readiness, control design, observation-period management and audit preparation for SOC 2 Type I and Type II — with evidence in Hyperproof that also serves ISO 27001 and customer questionnaires.

SOC 2 Compliance

Penetration testing

Web application, API, mobile and cloud penetration testing under OWASP, PTES and NIST methodology — with a report you can show enterprise buyers to prove diligence and to prioritise remediation of the real exploitable flaws.

Penetration Testing

Secure SDLC (SAST/SCA) & ISO 27001

Shift-left SAST and SCA from Aikido embedded in CI/CD, plus ISO 27001 certification support — so security scales with engineering rather than gating it, and your management system is certifiable.

Case study

A SaaS scale-up's path to SOC 2 and enterprise readiness

An anonymised engagement showing how the SaaS bundle works in practice.

A B2B SaaS scale-up was losing enterprise deals because it could not produce a SOC 2 report or complete buyer security questionnaires in time. Passeca stood up the SOC 2 controls in Hyperproof, built a reusable questionnaire answer library, and ran a penetration test of the application and API surface.

The engagement put the company on track for a SOC 2 Type II report and surfaced remediation priorities from the penetration test.

FAQ

SaaS & technology cybersecurity, answered

The questions founders, security and engineering leaders at SaaS companies ask before pursuing certifications and testing.

Why do SaaS companies need SOC 2?
Because many enterprise buyers ask for it. SOC 2 reports on controls against the applicable Trust Services Criteria: security and, where included, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity and privacy. Many enterprise buyers request a SOC 2 Type II report or equivalent security assurance during procurement. Without it, deals can stall. Passeca prepares you for the audit and uses Hyperproof to keep evidence continuous.
What is Hyperproof and why is it central to the SaaS bundle?
Hyperproof is a GRC and compliance-automation platform with 160+ prebuilt frameworks, automated evidence collection, and integrations (AWS, Azure, Jira, Slack). Passeca implements and operates it, with the aim of moving compliance from a recurring scramble toward a continuous, audit-ready state — which is what fast-moving SaaS companies need. Hyperproof supports evidence management; it does not by itself guarantee audit readiness.
How does penetration testing help SaaS companies?
Penetration testing finds the real exploitable flaws in your application, APIs and cloud before a customer or an attacker does. Passeca tests web apps, APIs, mobile and cloud under OWASP, PTES and NIST methodology, and produces a report you can show enterprise buyers to prove security diligence.
What are customer security questionnaires and how does Passeca help?
Enterprise buyers send detailed security questionnaires (CAIQ, SIG, bespoke) before onboarding a SaaS vendor. Passeca helps build a reusable answer library in Hyperproof, aligns your controls to the questions, and keeps the evidence current so questionnaires are answered quickly and accurately instead of stalling the deal.
How does Passeca test API security for SaaS products?
Passeca runs dedicated API penetration testing against REST and GraphQL endpoints — authentication, authorisation (including BOLA), rate limiting, mass assignment and injection per the OWASP API Top 10 — so the integration surface every SaaS exposes is hardened.
Does ISO 27001 overlap with SOC 2 for SaaS companies?
There is strong overlap. Both address access control, risk management, vendor management and incident response. ISO 27001 is a certifiable standard; SOC 2 is an attestation. Passeca maps controls once in Hyperproof so the same evidence serves both, letting SaaS companies pursue both efficiently.
Can Passeca support our secure SDLC as we scale?
Yes. Passeca deploys SAST and SCA from Aikido to shift-left security findings into CI/CD and pull requests with false-positive triage, and threat modelling with ThreatModeler at design time — so security scales with the engineering team rather than gating it.
How long does it take a SaaS company to get SOC 2 ready?
A focused SaaS company typically needs several months of control operation before a Type II audit can cover a meaningful observation period. Passeca compresses readiness by building controls and evidence in Hyperproof in parallel, so the observation period starts with everything already in place.
Always-on defence

Losing deals to security questionnaires?

Tell us which certifications your buyers demand and your current control maturity. We will map your SOC 2 and ISO 27001 path and give you a timeline and cost band for the full SaaS bundle.