Top Penetration Testing Companies in Malaysia (2026)

Last updated: August 17, 2026

Executive Answer

Malaysia has a strong mix of local penetration-testing specialists, regional cybersecurity firms, managed security providers, and cross-border PTaaS companies. There is no defensible universal “best” provider. Choose according to system location, current NACSA eligibility where applicable, technical fit, company-level accreditation, assigned-team experience, reporting, retesting, data handling, and delivery model.

This guide compares 20 providers using current service pages and issuer evidence. It explains how to interpret CREST and PTSP, compare like-for-like quotations, and score proposals consistently. The list is a procurement shortlist, not a regulator-endorsed ranking.

Publisher Disclosure

Publisher disclosure: DeepStrike publishes this guide and appears first as the publisher's selection. That placement is not an independent regulator or market ranking. The other providers are presented alphabetically. Accreditation and licence status can change, so verify the current NACSA licensing portal and relevant issuer directory before signing a contract.

Why Malaysia Buyers Need a Current 2026 Guide

Malaysia's security and assurance environment has changed materially since 2024.

• MyCERT's Cyber999 Incident Response Centre reported 1,657 incidents in Q1 2025, 2,058 in Q2, 2,020 in Q3, and 1,881 in Q4. That is 7,616 reports handled during 2025. It is an incident-response workload, not a measure of every cyber incident in Malaysia.
• Malaysia's Cyber Security Act 2024 (Act 854) came into operation on August 26, 2024 and introduced licensing of specified cybersecurity services, including penetration testing under the accompanying regulations.
• Bank Negara Malaysia issued a revised RMiT policy on November 28, 2025. Its current VAPT controls are more specific than a generic instruction to “test regularly.”
• IBM's 2026 research places the global average cost of a data breach at USD 4.99 million. That figure is global and should not be presented as a Malaysia or ASEAN average, but it illustrates why buyers should evaluate testing quality rather than price alone.

The practical lesson is simple: a buyer needs both a technically capable testing team and evidence that the engagement is legally and contractually appropriate for the systems in scope.

How We Evaluated the Companies

The following rules keep the list useful without overstating what public evidence can prove:

1. Current service evidence: Each provider has a first-party page that currently offers penetration testing or a directly equivalent VAPT service.
2. Malaysia basis: A provider has a Malaysian corporate or office presence, or explicitly offers its service to Malaysian buyers. Cross-border delivery is labeled as such.
3. Issuer-first credentials: CREST status is described as current only when the CREST Marketplace shows the company and relevant service. A logo on a provider website is not treated as an issuer record.
4. Dynamic licensing: NACSA status is a pre-contract verification item because licences, conditions, exemptions, and directives can change. The live portal is the controlling operational check.
5. No hidden rating formula: Customer reviews, headcount, revenue, and unverified client logos do not determine order.
6. Transparent ordering: DeepStrike is first because it publishes the guide. Every other provider is alphabetical.

Evidence was checked on August 17, 2026. This is a buyer's shortlist, not legal advice or a guarantee that a provider remains eligible for every future engagement.

Penetration Testing Companies in Malaysia Compared

“Evidence signal” is not the same as legal eligibility. Where Act 854 licensing applies, verify the provider's current licence, exact legal entity, service category, conditions, and expiry in the live NACSA portal.

1. DeepStrike — Publisher's Cross-Border PTaaS Selection

DeepStrike's penetration testing service combines manual testing with a customer dashboard, Slack collaboration, Jira and ServiceNow integration, reporting, remediation guidance, and retesting. Its pricing-plan page describes one-shot and continuous models and states that Basic engagements include free remediation retesting for 12 months. DeepStrike also publishes a results-based pricing model under which a pre-agreed project price is waived if no meaningful vulnerabilities are found.

DeepStrike should be considered a cross-border provider, not a Malaysian local firm. Its public footer identifies United States and UAE entities. A Malaysian buyer should therefore determine whether the intended systems, services, and delivery model fall within Act 854 licensing requirements or an exemption, and should obtain the relevant current evidence before contracting.

Best for: SaaS, fintech, e-commerce, and engineering teams that want manual-first testing, real-time findings, integrations, and extended retesting.

2. Across Verticals

Across Verticals describes itself as a Malaysian boutique cybersecurity consulting firm covering penetration testing, security research, compliance, incident response, and training. The current CREST Marketplace profile lists penetration testing and describes experience in application, infrastructure, red-team, and regulatory work.

Best for: Enterprises that want a technically focused testing team with broader security advisory support.

3. ASK Pentest

ASK Pentest offers security posture assessment with social-engineering and intelligence-led options and has a Kuala Lumpur contact address. Its CREST Marketplace profile describes controlled use of real-world attacker tools and techniques.

Best for: Financial, public-sector, and enterprise buyers seeking intelligence-led or adversary-style exercises alongside conventional assessment.

4. Condition Zebra

Condition Zebra offers network, application, mobile, social-engineering, and related testing from Petaling Jaya. The CREST Marketplace currently lists the company for penetration testing. The company also states that it holds NACSA licences, but buyers should confirm the legal entity and current service category in the NACSA portal.

Best for: Organizations wanting local penetration testing plus managed detection, incident response, or security training.

5. Cybernage

Cybernage advertises web-application, mobile-application, system, and network penetration testing, plus red teaming, forensics, hardening, and compliance consulting in Malaysia. This guide found current first-party service evidence but does not use an issuer-backed company accreditation to rank it.

Best for: Mid-market buyers that need common application and infrastructure scopes from one local provider.

6. EC-Council Global Services

EC-Council Global Services operates a cyber-defense facility in Malaysia and offers consulting, remote penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, incident response, and managed services. Its CREST Marketplace profile is current and describes the group's penetration-testing methodology.

Best for: Regional or multinational organizations that prefer a broad consulting and managed-security group with a Malaysia delivery base.

7. Firmus

Firmus offers penetration testing across networks, web applications, cloud environments, and internal systems, with incident response and managed security services. The CREST Marketplace profile lists network, web, mobile, red-team, source-code, physical, and social-engineering capabilities.

Best for: Buyers looking for a local provider that can support assessment, response, and longer-term security operations.

8. Flawtrack

Flawtrack's Malaysia penetration-testing page combines expert-led testing with attack-surface and continuous-exposure services. Its site identifies a Cyberjaya headquarters and displays NACSA licensing evidence. Because a company page is not the final issuer record, buyers should still verify the current licence, legal entity, scope, and conditions in the NACSA portal.

Best for: Security teams that want penetration testing connected to continuous attack-surface or exposure management.

9. LGMS / LE Global Services

LGMS is a Malaysian pure-play cybersecurity assessment firm offering network, application, mobile, source-code, social-engineering, red-team, and related services. The current CREST Marketplace entry for LE Global Services lists penetration testing plus application and mobile testing specialisms.

Best for: Financial institutions, regulated organizations, and complex enterprises seeking a mature assessment-led firm.

10. NetAssist (M)

NetAssist offers penetration testing for web applications, mobile applications, APIs, networks, and infrastructure, alongside security audits and managed services. Its certification page displays CREST, penetration-test licence, and PTSP claims. Buyers should confirm each current issuer record and the exact contracting entity rather than relying on logos alone.

Best for: Organizations that want a Malaysian MSSP to combine penetration testing, SOC coverage, and security consulting.

11. Nexagate

Nexagate offers penetration testing, cloud and IoT/ICS assessment, compromise assessment, and red teaming from a Malaysia headquarters. Its CREST Marketplace profile currently lists penetration testing.

Best for: Regional enterprises with mixed application, cloud, infrastructure, and industrial or connected-device scope.

12. Ofisgate

Ofisgate offers application and infrastructure penetration testing, remediation guidance, audit, and training in Malaysia. A current CREST page for Ofisgate is labeled as a training-provider profile, so this guide does not present it as evidence of firm-level CREST penetration-testing accreditation. Buyers should verify current NACSA and PTSP evidence directly with the relevant issuers.

Best for: Buyers that value local testing, audit, and training from the same provider.

13. OrenG Academy

OrenG Academy publishes a broad VAPT scope covering internal and external infrastructure, web and mobile applications, APIs, cloud, Active Directory, databases, hosts, and source-code review. It also offers cybersecurity training and simulation. No issuer-backed company penetration-testing accreditation is used for ranking in this guide.

Best for: Organizations that want technical assessment and internal capability development in the same engagement.

14. Qumulo Sdn Bhd

Qumulo offers penetration testing, red teaming, security assessment, and related security solutions in Malaysia. Its current CREST Marketplace profile lists the company as a focused security-assessment firm.

Best for: Buyers seeking a focused local provider with current CREST marketplace evidence.

15. Secure Insight

Secure Insight offers external, internal, and web-application penetration testing, red teaming, software assurance, threat intelligence, and security operations from Kuala Lumpur. Its public case studies include financial, government, telecommunications, and infrastructure scenarios. Confirm current PTSP and any NACSA status with the issuing bodies before award.

Best for: Regulated, infrastructure, and assurance-heavy projects requiring black-box, white-box, or software-assurance work.

16. Securelytics

Securelytics combines penetration testing and application-security assessment with laboratory and Common Criteria work. This mix can be relevant when a buyer needs both system testing and product-evaluation capabilities. This guide found current first-party testing evidence but does not use an issuer record to state a current penetration-testing accreditation.

Best for: Product vendors and enterprises that need testing alongside laboratory or security-evaluation services.

17. Simply Data

Simply Data offers web, mobile, network, cloud, social-engineering, and red-team services from Puchong. Its current CREST Marketplace profile shows a Vulnerability Assessment specialism, not a penetration-testing badge. The company also publishes NACSA and PTSP claims; buyers should confirm both issuer records and avoid treating vulnerability-assessment accreditation as automatically identical to penetration-testing accreditation.

Best for: SMEs and enterprises looking to combine assessment work with monitoring or managed-security support.

18. SysArmy

SysArmy offers security assessment and penetration testing alongside monitoring and technology-risk services in Kuala Lumpur. Its CREST Marketplace profile lists internal and external, web, mobile, database, host, and network-appliance assessment capabilities.

Best for: Buyers needing infrastructure and application testing with an option for ongoing monitoring.

19. Vigilant Asia

Vigilant Asia offers network, wireless, application, API, web, mobile, firewall, social-engineering, and intelligence-led penetration testing from Shah Alam, alongside managed-security services. Its site describes CREST-accredited expertise. Buyers should confirm the current issuer record, exact service accreditation, and NACSA status before relying on those signals in procurement.

Best for: Organizations that want offensive testing integrated with a 24/7 managed-security relationship.

20. wizlynx group

wizlynx's Malaysia service page offers manual and automated testing for applications, networks, cloud, mobile, and other environments and states NACSA licence number 20021-02. The CREST Marketplace profile currently lists penetration testing. The NACSA number should still be checked in the live portal before contract award.

Best for: Multinational and regulated organizations wanting a global methodology with Malaysia delivery capability.

Malaysia Penetration-Testing Compliance Matrix for 2026

Under Section 27(5), providing a licence-required cybersecurity service without a licence can result in a fine of up to RM500,000, imprisonment for up to ten years, or both. Check the official Act and commencement page, the current NACSA legal and directives page, and the operational licensing portal. A secondary legal analysis by Mayer Brown independently identifies the same Section 27(5) maximum.

For financial institutions, use the current RMiT policy PDF, not the superseded June 2023 version. For privacy timing, the official PDPA commencement gazette shows the three 2025 commencement dates.

NACSA, CREST, PTSP, and Staff Certifications Are Not Interchangeable

The CyberSecurity Malaysia PTSP scheme and the CREST Marketplace are useful independent sources, but buyers should read the exact scope instead of counting logos.

How Much Does Penetration Testing Cost in Malaysia?

There is no defensible universal average because quotations depend on the asset count, complexity, access model, environment, compliance requirements, testing depth, timeline, retest terms, and deliverables. One Malaysia-based provider publishes a broad planning envelope of roughly RM5,000 to more than RM150,000 across different engagement sizes. Treat that as a provider-published range, not a verified market average.

The best way to compare price is to send the same scope and deliverable requirements to at least three eligible providers.

Do not compare a vulnerability scan with a human-led penetration test as if they are equivalent products. A lower quote can reflect a narrower asset list, fewer tester days, less manual validation, no remediation workshop, or a limited retest window.

Useful scope-specific references are available for buyers comparing:

• Web application penetration testing
• Mobile application penetration testing
• Cloud penetration testing
• Continuous penetration testing
• Red teaming as a service

A 100-Point RFP Scorecard for Comparing Providers

Score every proposal against the same evidence. A provider that fails a mandatory legal or safety condition should be excluded before weighted scoring.

Suggested scoring scale: 0 means no evidence; 1 means materially inadequate; 3 means acceptable; 5 means excellent and independently supported. Multiply each criterion's normalized score by its weight. Keep written reasons for procurement and audit review.

Ten Questions to Ask Before Signing

1. What exact legal entity will sign and deliver the work?
2. If Act 854 licensing applies, what is the current NACSA licence number, service category, validity, and condition set?
3. Which assets, roles, APIs, cloud accounts, IP ranges, locations, and environments are included and excluded?
4. How much testing is manual, and how will the team test authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, and business logic?
5. Who is the assigned technical lead, what relevant experience do they have, and will any work be subcontracted?
6. What are the rules of engagement, testing windows, stop conditions, deconfliction contacts, and prohibited actions?
7. Where will evidence and credentials be stored, who can access them, and when will every copy be deleted?
8. What reports, attestation letters, executive briefings, and compliance mappings are included?
9. How many retests are included, for how long, and what evidence confirms that a finding is closed?
10. What happens if scope assumptions change, production impact occurs, or the provider finds evidence of an active compromise?

Which Provider Model Fits Your Team?

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is the best penetration testing company in Malaysia?

There is no universal best provider. Build a shortlist based on legal eligibility, relevant technical scope, current company-level accreditation, assigned-team experience, methodology, reporting, data handling, retesting, and price. Use the same RFP and 100-point scorecard for every bidder.

Does a penetration testing provider need a NACSA licence in Malaysia?

Act 854 creates licensing requirements for specified cybersecurity services, including penetration testing, subject to the regulations, exemptions, system location, current directives, and the facts of the engagement. Verify the exact provider entity and service in NACSA's live portal and obtain legal advice for ambiguous cases.

How much does a penetration test cost in Malaysia?

Public provider pages show a very broad range, from roughly RM5,000 for narrow scopes to more than RM150,000 for complex work, but this is not a verified market average. Asset count, complexity, access, manual depth, compliance, timeline, deliverables, and retesting determine the final quote.

What is the difference between NACSA, CREST, and PTSP?

A NACSA licence is a Malaysian statutory permission for the named regulated service and entity. CREST is an independent company and individual accreditation ecosystem. PTSP is a CyberSecurity Malaysia certification scheme for qualifying local providers. None of these signals automatically replaces the others.

How often should a Malaysian organization conduct penetration testing?

Frequency should follow risk, material change, contracts, and applicable regulation. The current BNM RMiT policy requires covered financial institutions to conduct annual intelligence-led penetration tests and quarterly vulnerability assessments for specified critical-system components, plus testing before introducing new systems.

Can a company outside Malaysia perform a penetration test for a Malaysian business?

Remote or cross-border delivery may be possible, but eligibility depends on the service, the systems' location, the contracting and delivery entities, applicable exemptions, sector rules, and current NACSA requirements. Do not assume that overseas incorporation removes Malaysian licensing or data-handling obligations.

Conclusion

The right provider is not the company with the longest badge row or the lowest initial quote. It is the eligible team that understands the exact environment, tests deeply and safely, produces evidence engineers can use, protects sensitive data, and verifies remediation.

Shortlist three providers, confirm the current issuer records, and give each the same assets, objectives, constraints, deliverables, and retest requirements. Then score the proposals with the 100-point model above.

DeepStrike is one option for teams that want manual penetration testing, live collaboration, a results dashboard, and extended retesting. For Malaysian systems, confirm the engagement's licensing and data-handling requirements before award. If that delivery model fits your scope, request a scoped proposal.

About The Author

Mohammed Khalil is a Cybersecurity Architect at DeepStrike, specializing in advanced penetration testing and offensive security operations. With certifications including CISSP, OSCP, and OSWE, he has led numerous red team engagements for Fortune 500 companies, focusing on cloud security, application vulnerabilities, and adversary emulation. His work involves dissecting complex attack chains and developing resilient defense strategies for clients in the finance, healthcare, and technology sectors.