Founded on a mission to secure the web

Heyhack builds on more than 20 years of experience in penetration testing and has been founded to help organizations all around the world to strengthen the security of their applications and services.

Designed from the ground up in 2022

Heyhack was founded by Anders Skovsgaard and Sebastian Brandes who have worked as independent penetration test consultants for more than 20 years. After becoming frustrated with traditional web vulnerability scanners, the pair decided to built a novel penetration testing engine from the ground based on artificial intelligence and modern pentesting techniques.

The philosophy behind Heyhack is that you can't test what you can't see. Based on this guiding principle, Heyhack has been designed to crawl and scan modern web applications comprehensively to achieve 100% coverage. This enables Heyhack to evaluate and test every single DOM element, API, input field, and form to ensure that no stone has been left unturned.

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Continuously improving our penetration testing engine

We continue to improve our penetration testing engine in Heyhack Scan all the time to ensure that we always stay ahead of hackers.

Whenever a new browser API is launched, updates to HTTP servers are released, changes to transfer protocols are announced, or new TLS policies are published by the major browsers, we immediately add new tests to our ever-growing test suite to assert that we cover every single case.

Have a look at our public product roadmap to get a look into what we are currently working on in Heyhack. 😃

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Complying with Leading Security Standards

We actively engage with leading organizations that develop and promote security frameworks and standards. Here are some of the frameworks we comply with.

Heyhack is SOC 2 Type II certified

Heyhack complies with the SOC 2 Type II standard and is certified Prescient Assurance, a licensed Certified Public Accounting Firm in the US.

Complying with the GDPR in the EU

Heyhack is based in Copenhagen, Denmark and hosts its servers in the European Union. We are regulated by and comply with the GDPR.

Supports the ISO 27001 standard

The ISO 27001 typically requires organizations to run penetration tests of their critical infrastructure. Heyhack lives up to the standards of this control.

Member of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project

Heyhack is a corporate member of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (better known as the OWASP). The OWASP is the leading community that aims to advance and improve the security of applications.

The OWASP hosts a wide variety of projects that we actively make use of in Heyhack—including, the OWASP Top 10, the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, the OWASP Cheat Sheet Series, and more.

Moreover, Heyhack is a proud sponsor of the OWASP Juice Shop. The Juice Shop is probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web app. It is frequently used in security trainings, awareness demos, CTFs and as a guinea pig for security tools—like Heyhack. 🙂

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Heyhack is hosted in the EU by Google Cloud

Heyhack is based in Copenhagen, Denmark and hosts its service in Google Cloud's datacenter region in Belgium. Heyhack complies with all the relevant regulations set forth by the European Union and does not make use of any other hosting providers in other geographical regions.

If you are outside of the European Union and would like to use Heyhack in your region, we can set up an instance of Heyhack dedicated to you.

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Book a meeting with one of our security experts and learn how Heyhack can help you secure your web applications and services across your domains.

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“Heyhack helps us gain a complete overview of the security of our application and patch vulnerabilities early.”

Søren Viuff

CPO of Openli