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      Modern enterprises face growing vulnerability volumes and limited remediation capacity. Fragmented tools and vendors— with inconsistent quality — struggle to meet organizational needs.

      Though applications, APIs, infrastructure, cloud, and AI-enabled environments all evolve, your organization may be testing less frequently. A small staff also can hinder your ability to test, as well as to validate, prioritize, and close any issues found.

      Source: KPMG 2026 Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Survey


      The KPMG difference — KPMG can help your organization move beyond scan results to managed risk reduction

      KPMG Managed Security Testing (MST) combines enterprise vulnerability management, scalable security testing, risk-based prioritization, governance, exploit validation, and remediation verification to help organizations identify, prioritize, track, and close security risk at enterprise scale. 

      MST is designed to discover, prioritize, validate, track, and confirm closure of risk across the enterprise.


      Typical benefits of KPMG Managed Security Testing

      • Enterprise-scale asset and application visibility
      • Risk-based prioritization based on business impact
      • Reduction of vulnerability remediation backlogs
      • Governance, SLA tracking, escalation, and reporting
      • Risk exception and acceptance management
      • Executive and operational dashboards
      • Continuous validation of remediation effectiveness
      • Trend analysis and security program maturity improvement

      Why KPMG

      Deep experience operating enterprise vulnerability management and testing programs at scale

      Integration of  vulnerability management, scalable security testing, governance, and continuous validation

      Broad coverage across apps, APIs, infrastructure, cloud, and AI-enabled environments

      Consistent delivery, quality, governance and reporting model

      Market-tested ability to reduce vulnerability backlogs and validate remediation effectiveness

      How it works

      KPMG Managed Security Testing provides integrated services as part of a repeatable, defensible, vulnerability lifecycle.

      Integrated services offered

      • Penetration testing
      • ICS security testing
      • Social engineering
      • Threat modelling
      • AI / LLM / agentic AI security testing
      • Application / web / mobile / API testing
      • Wireless security testing
      • Architecture review
      • Red team operations
      • Cloud penetration testing
      • Vulnerability management
      • Purple team exercises
      • Hardware / embedded device testing

      How will you optimize security testing?

      Do your vulnerability remediation or testing backlogs continue to grow? Can you demonstrate measurable risk reduction and remediation effectiveness over time?

      KPMG Managed Security Testing is built to provide consistent service quality, delivery, governance, and communication cadence to support managed risk reduction. MST can help strengthen your security posture, while enabling confidence as you innovate and protect critical systems.

      KPMG Managed Security Testing Slipsheet

      KPMG Managed Security Testing

      Modern enterprises face growing vulnerability volumes and limited remediation capacity. KPMG Managed Security Testing combines risk-based prioritization, exploit validation,and remediation verification to accelerate closure at enterprise scale.

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      Proactively get ahead of cybersecurity issues.

      Unlock the full power of your IAM investment, without the operational headache. Let KPMG run the day-to-day while you drive growth.

      Designed to detect, respond to, and contain threats — protecting assets, building trust, and enabling growth amid evolving risks.

      Manage cyber risks arising from your third-party ecosystem

      Our insights

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      Timely insights to help you drive transformation, build resilience, and seize new growth opportunities in today’s rapidly evolving business environment.

      Explore how organizations navigate today’s emerging tech — and prepare for what’s next.

      In an AI-dominated business environment, the foundational principles of cybersecurity are even more critical.

      Organizations are rapidly adopting AI. It’s exposing them to new risks. It is also creating countless opportunities to improve operations and efficiencies, unlock value and grow competitive advantage.

      KPMG receives top rankings across multiple categories in risk consulting according to analyst group, Source.

      Our people

      Adrian Clamp

      Global Head of KPMG Managed Services

      KPMG International

      Charles Jacco

      Principal

      KPMG in the U.S.