Your delivery timeline shouldn't depend on someone else's uptime
Vendor outages, air-gapped facilities, client site restrictions - your pentest platform should work when and where you need it, not just when the internet cooperates.
Deliver without dependencies
Work offline - full functionality without internet connectivity
Air-gapped ready - deploy in secure facilities and SCIFs
No vendor dependency - their outage isn't your emergency
For teams who can't afford to stop working because a vendor has problems.
Trusted by teams who need to deliver - regardless of connectivity.
When your platform becomes a single point of failure
Cloud-only tools work great - until they don't. And when they don't, your delivery timeline pays the price.
The vendor outage
Report due tomorrow. Platform down since this morning. Your client doesn't care whose fault it is.
The connectivity gap
Client site. Restricted network. Your cloud platform is blocked. Now what?
The secure facility
Air-gapped environment. No internet allowed. Your workflow grinds to a halt.
The travel day
Airport, train, hotel with terrible wifi. You wanted to finish the report. The platform had other ideas.
Every one of these scenarios has a common thread: your ability to deliver depends on something you don't control.
What operational continuity actually looks like
Same platform. Same features. Same workflow. Whether you're online, offline, or somewhere in between.
Work through vendor outages
When your platform runs on your infrastructure, someone else's bad day doesn't become your emergency.
No status page refreshing. No apologetic emails to clients. No scrambling for workarounds.
Your uptime is your responsibility - which means it's actually under your control.
No dependency on vendor infrastructure
Your SLA, not theirs
Integrate with your existing backup and DR
Scenario: Report due, platform down
With a cloud-only platform:
Check status page. "Investigating."
Wait. Refresh. Wait.
Email client to push deadline
Hope it's back before end of day
With Dradis:
Keep working
Finish report
Deliver on time
Never know there was a problem elsewhere
Deploy in air-gapped environments
Secure facilities, SCIFs, classified networks - some engagements don't allow internet connectivity.
Cloud platforms simply can't work here. Dradis can.
Run the full platform on a laptop or local server. Import tool output, collaborate with your team,
generate reports - all without leaving the network.
Full functionality with zero connectivity
Deploy on portable hardware
No data exfiltration concerns
Scenario: Two-week engagement in a secure facility
Deploy Dradis on an approved laptop before entering
Run the full engagement inside - tool imports, findings, collaboration, QA
Generate the final report on the last day
Export deliverables through approved channels
No connectivity required at any point
Keep working at client sites
Client networks often block external SaaS tools. Guest wifi is unreliable at best.
Your ability to work shouldn't depend on their network policies.
With Dradis running locally or on your infrastructure, client site restrictions
don't affect your workflow.
Work on restricted client networks
No firewall exceptions needed
Capture findings where you find them
Scenario: On-site assessment, no external access
With a cloud-only platform:
Request firewall exception (denied)
Use personal hotspot (against policy)
Fall back to notepad and screenshots
Reconstruct everything back at the office
With Dradis:
Run Dradis on your laptop
Import scans, document findings in real-time
Collaborate with on-site team members
Leave with the report half-written
Finish work while travelling
Airports, trains, hotels - connectivity is unpredictable. When you've got time to work,
you shouldn't spend it fighting with a slow or unavailable platform.
Dradis works offline. Write findings, refine your report, review evidence -
sync when you're back online, or don't sync at all if you're working standalone.
Productive travel time
No "waiting for connection" spinners
Work on your schedule, not your wifi's
Ivan R
Head of RED
Specialist Cybersecurity Consultancy
"Dradis gives us a centralized solution that has enabled us to improve and simplify our existing workflow. Evidence and findings are stored in a centralized location, on our infrastructure, with full activity logs."
Assess Your Vendor Risk Exposure
How dependent is your security workflow on your current vendor?
Your current setup
Vendor-hosted data means less control over access, retention, and compliance.
Secure facilities, client sites, or restricted networks.
Security-conscious clients increasingly require data sovereignty assurances.
Data portability affects your ability to switch vendors or maintain continuity.
Cloud dependencies create single points of failure.
Auditability is increasingly required for compliance and client trust.
Your risk profile
Overall Vendor Risk
Moderate
62
out of 100
Data SovereigntyAt Risk
Operational ContinuityAt Risk
Client Compliance ReadinessGood
Vendor DependencyHigh Risk
Top risk areas
Your data residing on vendor infrastructure limits your control over access and retention policies.
Occasional offline work requirements aren't fully supported by cloud-only platforms.
Teams with scores above 50 often face client pushback on data handling or delivery delays from connectivity issues.
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The real cost of delivery interruptions
It's not just inconvenience. Downtime has business consequences.
Missed deadlines
Clients remember when you delivered late. They don't remember (or care) whose fault it was.
Your reputation absorbs the hit.
Lost opportunities
"Can you work in our secure facility?" If the answer is "not with our current tooling,"
you've just disqualified yourself from certain contracts.
Rework and scramble
When the platform is down, work happens in notepads, screenshots, and email.
Then someone has to reconstruct it all. That's expensive time.
"Dradis Pro is a game changer. We use it to track our assessments and gather artifacts for reports. Before, we had spreadsheets, lots of emails and lots of wasted time. Now, all the data we need is easily accessible."
Deployment flexibility for any scenario
Run Dradis where it makes sense for your workflow and security requirements.
On your infrastructure
Deploy on your servers, VMs, or private cloud. Integrate with your existing backup,
monitoring, and security controls.
Full control over uptime
Your security policies apply
No external dependencies
Portable deployment
Run on a laptop for travel, client sites, or secure facilities.
Full functionality, zero connectivity requirements.
Work anywhere
Air-gapped capable
Transfer via approved channels
Containerised
Docker deployment for teams using containers. Quick setup,
easy updates, works with existing orchestration.
Docker Compose or Kubernetes
Consistent environments
CI/CD friendly
Ready to remove the single point of failure?
What to expect from the Dradis team
Free onboarding support and training for your team. We offer personalized training sessions to get your team up and running quickly and efficiently.
30-day money-back guarantee. If the platform doesn't meet your expectations, we offer a complete refund. No questions asked.
Industry-leading retention. 9 out of 10 teams who try Dradis are actively using it after a year.
Common questions about offline work and self-hosted deployment
Yes. Dradis is fully self-contained. You can run complete engagements - tool imports, collaboration, report generation - with no network connectivity whatsoever. This is essential for air-gapped facilities and secure client environments.
Most teams deploy Dradis on a laptop or portable server that's been approved for the environment. The full platform runs locally, and deliverables are exported through whatever channels are permitted. No connectivity is needed during the engagement.
Dradis supports project export and import, so you can move work between instances. For most offline scenarios, teams complete the engagement on the offline instance and don't need to sync - the deliverables are exported directly.
No. Dradis ships as a virtual appliance with supported images for VMware, AWS, Azure, and Docker. Updates are released regularly and can be applied on your schedule.
Most teams are up and running within 1-2 weeks, and ongoing maintenance is minimal.
No - because there is no cloud version. Dradis was designed from the ground up as a self-hosted platform.
100% of features work in every deployment: on-premises, private cloud, air-gapped, or on a laptop. There's no feature gap.
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