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Full-Scale Security Audit & Penetration Testing

Client: LondonFin Group

The Challenge

LondonFin Group, a London-based fintech handling over £50M in monthly transactions, needed a comprehensive security audit ahead of their FCA regulatory review. Their internal team had identified potential vulnerabilities in their API layer and customer dashboard, but lacked the specialist expertise to perform deep-dive penetration testing across their full stack.

Our Approach

  1. 1

    Reviewed LondonFin’s existing security policies, incident response playbooks, and architecture diagrams.

  2. 2

    Conducted automated SAST/DAST scans across 12 microservices and a manual code review of authentication and payment flows.

  3. 3

    Executed simulated attacks: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, and API fuzzing against staging and production-like environments.

  4. 4

    Compiled a risk-rated findings report with CVSS scores and recommended remediation timelines.

  5. 5

    Delivered a remediation workshop and re-tested all critical and high-severity findings within 30 days.

Technologies Used

Burp SuiteSemgrepAWS Security HubOWASP ZAPTerraformDocker

The Solution

We conducted a full-scope security audit spanning web application, API, and infrastructure layers. Our team identified 23 vulnerabilities (3 critical, 8 high, 7 medium, 5 low). Critical findings included an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) in the payment API and a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket exposing transaction logs. LondonFin remediated all critical and high-severity issues within two weeks. We re-tested and issued a clean security report that satisfied FCA requirements.

Results & Metrics

23

Vulnerabilities found

100%

Critical/High remediated

Passed

FCA review outcome

14 days

Re-test turnaround

Client Testimonial

The depth of the WebCEO team’s analysis was outstanding. They found issues our own security team had missed for months, and the remediation workshop made fixing them straightforward.

James Al-Rashid

Head of Information Security, LondonFin Group

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