We need one supplier for a security assessment and for ongoing functional testing. Do the alternatives have both under one roof?

Only half of the alternatives sell both kinds of work. Four of them list a security service, penetration testing or security testing, alongside functional work such as manual testing, test automation and API testing. Two more carry the security-only scope BreachLock's own list shows, offering penetration testing or security testing with nothing functional beside it. The last two sell functional testing and name no security service at all. Where both halves do appear on one profile, the security half is one line on a long service list rather than a separately evidenced practice.

Our procurement asks for a CREST-accredited penetration testing service. Does moving off BreachLock cost us that?

Not necessarily, though the choice narrows to a single alternative. One alternative confirms a CREST accreditation, and that same profile also confirms an ISO/IEC 27001 certificate. A second confirms ISO/IEC 27001 without CREST. No other alternative confirms a certificate of any kind. The two marks answer different questions: one records a penetration testing or SOC service accredited by CREST and listed in its member marketplace, the other an information security management system certified across the company by an accredited body.

We want testers embedded in our own team rather than a service run at arm's length. Do the alternatives offer that?

Only three alternatives publish a model that puts testers inside the buyer's team, and those models are a dedicated team and staff augmentation. The three models on BreachLock's own profile work the other way round: a managed testing service means the vendor owns the test process and reports against agreed service levels, on-demand testing is bought a piece at a time, and a continuous testing programme runs on the vendor's side throughout. What the field records is who holds the test process, and it says nothing about where any tester physically sits.

BreachLock alternatives

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BreachLock declares 4 services in this catalog, among them Penetration testing, Red teaming, Secure code review. BreachLock names 5 industries, among them Banking, Manufacturing, Healthcare. Across the review platforms this catalog reads, BreachLock has 40 verified reviews, and that count is what puts it among the companies people search alternatives for. Certifications confirmed for BreachLock: crest.

8 companies compared against BreachLock.

Where these companies differ from BreachLock

This catalog does not know why a reader is looking for a replacement, and it does not guess. The list below is the set of fields on which the companies on this page actually differ from BreachLock.

Delivery geography: 8 of the 8 candidates deliver from at least one country BreachLock does not list.
Certifications: 2 of the 8 candidates hold a confirmed certification that BreachLock does not.
Published rates: 5 of the 8 candidates publish an hourly rate. BreachLock publishes none, so this page cannot compare price.
Applicability conditions the subject does not meet: Candidates on this page meet conditions BreachLock does not, among them Security focus, Automation first, Embedded team model.
Published case studies: 7 of the 8 candidates publish at least one case study with a named metric, and BreachLock publishes 0.

The companies

A company is listed here when it meets at least one of the same applicability conditions as the company at the top of the page. Those conditions are computed from published fields, so the list changes when the fields change and never because somebody paid for a place in it.

ScienceSoft
Nearshore for the EU
ScienceSoft meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, declares 1 of the services BreachLock declares, among them Penetration testing, names Healthcare and Banking among its industries, and carries 85 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.
Testlio
Nearshore for the EU
Testlio meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, names Ecommerce and Banking among its industries, and carries 76 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.
Global App Testing
Nearshore for the EU
Global App Testing meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, names Telecom and Ecommerce among its industries, and carries 66 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.
Edgescan
Nearshore for the EU
Edgescan meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, declares 2 of the services BreachLock declares, among them Penetration testing and Attack surface management, names Banking and Healthcare among its industries, and carries 53 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.
DeviQA
Nearshore for the EU
DeviQA meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, declares 1 of the services BreachLock declares, among them Penetration testing, names Healthcare and Banking among its industries, and carries 44 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.
QA Madness
Nearshore for the EU
QA Madness meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, declares 1 of the services BreachLock declares, among them Penetration testing, names Ecommerce and Healthcare among its industries, and carries 44 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.
Berezha Security Group
Nearshore for the EU
Berezha Security Group meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, declares 3 of the services BreachLock declares, among them Penetration testing and Secure code review, names Banking and Ecommerce among its industries, and carries 40 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.
Applause
Nearshore for the EU
Applause meets the same applicability condition as BreachLock, Nearshore for the EU, names Ecommerce and Banking among its industries, and carries 39 verified reviews against 40 for BreachLock.

Field by field

The order is by the number of applicability conditions a company shares with the company at the top of the page, then by the number of verified reviews it has on external review platforms, then alphabetically by name. No position here is paid for and none of it is an editorial score.

BreachLock and the 8 companies this catalog lists as alternatives, on the fields it publishes for every company.
Company	Delivery locations	Published rates	Team size	Certificates	Case studies	Reviews
BreachLockThe company this page compares against	the USA, the UK, the Netherlands, India	Not published	51-200 people	CRESTregister entry	Not published	40
ScienceSoft	the USA, Mexico, Latvia, Finland, Poland, Saudi Arabia, the UAE	Blended $50-99/hclutch.co	501-1000 people	None confirmed	2	85
Testlio	the USA, Estonia	Blended $25-49/hgoodfirms.co	51-200 people	None confirmed	5	76
Global App Testing	the UK, Romania	Not published	51-200 people	ISO/IEC 27001register entry	4	66
Edgescan	Ireland, the USA	Not published	51-200 people	ISO/IEC 27001register entryCRESTregister entry	1	53
DeviQA	Poland	Blended $25-49/hclutch.co	201-500 people	None confirmed	5	44
QA Madness	Poland	Blended $25-49/hclutch.co	51-200 people	None confirmed	2	44
Berezha Security Group	Ukraine, Poland	Blended $25-49/hclutch.co	11-50 people	None confirmed	Not published	40
Applause	the USA, Germany, Israel, Poland, India	Not published	201-500 people	None confirmed	3	39

No company in this table has a value recorded for these fields: Onboarding. Those cells are empty because no source recorded the value, and an empty cell is not a statement that the company lacks the property.

Founding dates and headquarters across the eight candidates

BreachLock was founded in 2019, later than every one of the eight candidates on this page. ScienceSoft has operated since 1989, three decades before BreachLock's founding, and Applause has operated since 2007. The other six candidates were founded between 2010 and 2014: DeviQA in 2010, Edgescan in 2011, Testlio in 2012, Global App Testing and QA Madness in 2013, and Berezha Security Group in 2014.

The eight headquarters span five countries. Three sit in the United States, the same country as BreachLock's own headquarters: ScienceSoft, Testlio and Applause. Two sit in Poland: DeviQA and QA Madness. The remaining three are spread one each across the United Kingdom, home to Global App Testing, Ireland, home to Edgescan, and Ukraine, home to Berezha Security Group.

Minimum project size: a floor BreachLock does not publish

BreachLock's profile carries no published minimum project size. Six of the eight candidates publish one of their own. QA Madness publishes the lowest floor at 1,000 US dollars, and Testlio publishes the highest at 75,000 US dollars. ScienceSoft, DeviQA and Berezha Security Group each publish 5,000 US dollars, and Global App Testing publishes 10,000 US dollars. Edgescan and Applause leave the field unpublished, the same gap BreachLock's own profile shows.

Engagement models: how many keep BreachLock's continuous or on-demand structure

BreachLock's own profile lists three engagement models: managed testing, on-demand testing and continuous testing. Three candidates, ScienceSoft, DeviQA and Applause, list managed testing among their own models. Global App Testing and Edgescan both list continuous testing, and Edgescan alone also lists on-demand testing, giving it the closest overlap with BreachLock's set on this page. Testlio's models center on crowdtesting and dedicated teams, and QA Madness's models center on project-based work, dedicated teams and staff augmentation; neither list overlaps with BreachLock's own three. Berezha Security Group publishes no engagement model at all.

Applicability tags the candidates hold that BreachLock's own profile does not

Four candidates, ScienceSoft, Edgescan, DeviQA and QA Madness, carry the Security focus tag. ScienceSoft's case studies describe penetration testing for a healthcare software vendor and testing of workforce management software. Edgescan's case study describes work for a U.S.-based telecom manufacturer and operator.

Three candidates, ScienceSoft, DeviQA and QA Madness, carry the Automation first tag, and three, Testlio, DeviQA and QA Madness, carry the Embedded team model tag. Global App Testing and Applause carry the Crowdtesting at scale tag, which requires a published tester pool of 10,000 people or more. ScienceSoft alone carries Nearshore for the USA, and DeviQA alone carries Device lab coverage. BreachLock's own profile lists Nearshore for the EU and no other applicability tag from this set.

Side by side with BreachLock

Questions

We need one supplier for a security assessment and for ongoing functional testing. Do the alternatives have both under one roof?: Only half of the alternatives sell both kinds of work. Four of them list a security service, penetration testing or security testing, alongside functional work such as manual testing, test automation and API testing. Two more carry the security-only scope BreachLock's own list shows, offering penetration testing or security testing with nothing functional beside it. The last two sell functional testing and name no security service at all. Where both halves do appear on one profile, the security half is one line on a long service list rather than a separately evidenced practice.
Our procurement asks for a CREST-accredited penetration testing service. Does moving off BreachLock cost us that?: Not necessarily, though the choice narrows to a single alternative. One alternative confirms a CREST accreditation, and that same profile also confirms an ISO/IEC 27001 certificate. A second confirms ISO/IEC 27001 without CREST. No other alternative confirms a certificate of any kind. The two marks answer different questions: one records a penetration testing or SOC service accredited by CREST and listed in its member marketplace, the other an information security management system certified across the company by an accredited body.
We want testers embedded in our own team rather than a service run at arm's length. Do the alternatives offer that?: Only three alternatives publish a model that puts testers inside the buyer's team, and those models are a dedicated team and staff augmentation. The three models on BreachLock's own profile work the other way round: a managed testing service means the vendor owns the test process and reports against agreed service levels, on-demand testing is bought a piece at a time, and a continuous testing programme runs on the vendor's side throughout. What the field records is who holds the test process, and it says nothing about where any tester physically sits.

Published by QA RatingPublished on September 4, 2026Updated on September 4, 2026

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