Vulnerability Assessment identifies and lists all existing vulnerabilities in your website. On the other hand, Penetration Testing focuses more on how each of these vulnerabilities could be exploited.

For example, consider a thief trying to enter your house to rob you and you want to take security pre-measures so that the thief won’t be able to enter your house.

Here, vulnerability assessment (VA) is similar to making sure you have all your house windows and doors closed. And penetration testing (PT) is similar to checking the strength or any weaknesses of your windows or doors so that even if a thief tries to enter he won’t find any entry points to enter into your house and you can have a worriless sleep.

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The VAPT services provided by Astra Security ensure holistic safety for your assets. It includes:

1. Continuous pentests

2. In-depth vulnerability assessments

3. Compliance-specific scans

4. Scan Behind Logins

5. Business Logic Error detection and more.

The following are reasons why one needs VAPT services:

1. Identify and fix security flaws in your website.

2. Penetration testing emulates real-life attack scenarios and helps in mitigating risks.

3. Help in achieving certain compliance requirements and avoid hefty penalties for non-compliance.

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Yes, Astra Security's cybersecurity services include vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. The successful remediation of the vulnerabilities identified is verified with the help of mandatory unlimited re-scans.

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Astra's VAPT certificate is a publicly verifiable certificate that is provided to customers after the following processes:

1. Successful pentest or vulnerability assessments.
2. Remediation of vulnerabilities found.
3. Rescanning to verify the patches made. 

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VAPT services generally cost from $2000 to $5000 and is influenced by a lot of factors like the size of company, scope of testing, number of assets and more.