Advanced Penetration Testing

We offer a diverse range of penetration testing services tailored to meet the specific needs of our clients. Some clients require continuous testing aligned with their application development sprint cycles, others seek a comprehensive security assessment of their entire organization, and some need to verify that their vendors, third-party partners, and data custodians are implementing proper security controls. In each case, our goal is to identify potential vulnerabilities as early as possible so they can be promptly addressed.

Our approach goes beyond standard testing. We provide in-depth assessments across all platforms and protocols, enabling our clients to gain a deeper understanding of their systems and build a stronger, more resilient business foundation. Our ultimate aim is to ensure long-term security for our partners by making targeted recommendations that reduce the labor and costs associated with securing their organizations.

What sets us apart is our commitment to empowering your organization’s staff. Rather than pushing additional services, we focus on strengthening your team through ongoing on-site or remote training. Think of us as personal trainers or coaches, dedicated to helping your team grow and develop their skills. This continuous process of building security knowledge within your organization is what we believe makes a lasting impact. By analyzing security at deeper levels, we help your team uncover and address areas that might otherwise be overlooked. Our approach to penetration testing is driven by our commitment to truly support our clients for the long term, rather than simply providing quick technical feedback.

PCI Penetration Testing

We offer comprehensive Payment Card Industry (PCI) penetration testing for all types of environments, with value that extends beyond simply identifying vulnerabilities. Our services include hands-on guidance to help you effectively remediate any issues discovered with your PCI security controls. Whether you have a complex network with multiple segments or are concerned about the legal defensibility of your report findings, our formal PCI penetration testing process not only meets but exceeds all PCI-DSS requirements. During the testing, we also seek out additional opportunities to enhance your security, such as identifying performance issues or security architecture design improvements that could benefit your organization.

Our team brings extensive experience in conducting PCI penetration tests in some of the most challenging environments. If your architecture is built on cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Google GCE, Microsoft Azure, or similar services, you can trust that we understand the unique challenges of testing multi-segment networks in these environments. We also have experience working in specialized environments, from Internet of Things (IoT) setups to Big Data platforms with proprietary protocols. Whether you’re preparing for PCI compliance or seeking a third-party PCI Penetration Test, we are one of the best companies in the industry to help you navigate this process successfully.

Continuous Testing

This is our most holistic and all-encompassing service, meticulously crafted for clients who refuse to let risks dictate their business trajectory. We initiate an ongoing, exhaustive testing regimen that spans all aspects of your infrastructure, beginning with your external network and, if necessary, delving deeper into internal systems. This service does not end at identifying vulnerabilities; it includes in-depth training for your team, thorough reviews of how your systems are hardened, and a complete evaluation of all security controls. Additionally, we seamlessly integrate security testing into your production sprint cycles, ensuring that your development processes are fortified against emerging threats.

This service represents the pinnacle of proactive security management, providing an unparalleled level of scrutiny and protection. It’s designed for organizations that demand the highest level of security assurance and cannot afford to leave any stone unturned. Whether it’s reinforcing your defenses, enhancing your team’s expertise, or embedding security into your operational workflows, this service delivers comprehensive coverage to ensure your business remains resilient in the face of any potential threat.

Security Architecture

Building advanced security architectures is one of our specialties. It’s why our team members have been selected again and again to lead complex security architecture projects for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Since most of our services get down to the bit level we have a deeper understanding of both the problems and the solutions to securing cutting-edge systems. Likewise, our associates have been so deeply involved with building and testing complex security systems we know all the little “gotchas” and radically time-saving tips that will help make your next deployment much easier. This combined with our philosophy of making long-term security as easy and inexpensive as possible to maintain allows us to provide more in-depth security at a substantially better long-term cost.

Given the long-term impact making a bad architecture decision can have, we always advise organizations to bring us into projects early on because some of the critical architecture decisions that could be inexpensive to deploy at the beginning of a project may become exponentially expensive to fix later on if deployed incorrectly. Likewise, with the shift from traditional computer security to more cloud-compute and automated solutions how we build and integrate everything has changed dramatically over the past few years.

Board Advisory

One of our most valued services is providing your leadership team with extensive security expertise. Our recognized experts have worked for some of the largest Fortune 500 and global companies securing large-scale projects with a very wide range of security and privacy concerns and also have performed legal litigation support in Federal Courts for several high-profile cases. The wide range of experience in multiple security areas from forensics and incident response, to security architecture, penetration testing, and security automation along with decades of industry experience can come together to bring an unmatched set of skills to your team.

Some of the notable benefits include:

• Guidance for handling complex security, privacy, and legal problems.
• Reducing time to compliance.
• Convert more of the compliance efforts to longer-lived functional security controls.
• Radically increased security posture.
• Increased levels of security automation.
• Reduced ongoing costs to support your security program.
• Finding and removing critical single points of failure.
• More comprehensive analysis of technology or M&A decisions.
• Helping organizations better leverage their technology assets in a competitive manner.
• Reduction in time and efforts spent reacting to compliance requirements.
• Short and long-term strategy development.
• Improved control over vendor relationships and improved vendor security.
• Competitive intelligence and counter surveillance protections.
• Being a helpful second set of eyes for your CISO or security team lead.

Some of the values we have as a company that may be useful when considering someone for this type of role include:

• We believe in reducing recurring costs to offset the asymmetric advantage of attackers.
• We drive security automation wherever feasible to reduce the workload on your team, allow systems to respond faster to attacks, and reduce overall costs.
• The best security solutions are invisible to users and expensive for attackers.
• Security has more to do with wisdom and discipline than expensive tools.
• Security is a long-term game.
• We strongly believe that the best organizational security is when it’s embedded into an organization’s culture and present at every level of decision making.
• The best security solutions are deployed automatically and do not slow the organization down.
• We avoid assumptions at all costs and always choose to gather and verify data when possible. Real data makes for better decisions. Knowing this need also drives our data collection efforts.