The vibe-coder's guide to your first SOC 2 pentest

You built quickly, maybe with a lot of AI-generated code, landed a real customer, and then their security team asked for your SOC 2 report. Buried in the requirements: a penetration test. If you've never bought one, here's the honest version of what you need.

What a pentest is (and isn't)

A vulnerability scanner flags patterns. A penetration test proves impact, someone (or something) actually exploits the weakness and shows what an attacker could do. Auditors want the latter: verified findings with evidence, not a wall of scanner 'maybes.'

What auditors actually look for

• A real test against a recognized methodology (OWASP Top 10 is the standard for web apps).
• Findings with severity, evidence, and clear remediation, not just a tool dump.
• Proof you remediated the important ones, usually via a retest.
• A report dated within the audit period, scoped to the systems in question.

Where AI-generated code tends to break

Fast, AI-assisted codebases have recognizable failure patterns: missing object-level authorization (IDOR), inconsistent input handling, secrets that slip into the client bundle, and auth flows that were 'good enough' to ship. These are exactly the categories a good pentest hammers, and exactly what we test for specifically.

The goal isn't to pass a checkbox. It's to find what an attacker would find, before they do, and to be able to prove you fixed it.

With Uvy, you point us at your app, we run the full methodology in days, hand you an audit-ready report, and retest until the important findings are closed. That's usually all your auditor needs.