Statewide, Arizona
Penetration Testing in Arizona
Independent penetration testing for businesses across Arizona. It is in the name: Arizona SMBs are who we test for, from Phoenix and Scottsdale to Tucson, Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, and Flagstaff. We find what is exposed on your network, explain it in plain English, and hand you a prioritized fix list your cyber-insurance carrier will recognize.
Manual and automated testing. Transparent pricing from $4,000. Retest included.
Get a fair, fixed quote
Wherever you are in the state, a penetration test should answer three plain questions: what is exposed, what it means, and what to fix first. We are Arizona-based, so you get someone local and responsive instead of a national firm running a remote scan and emailing a PDF. We test by hand as well as with tooling, because real risk usually comes from boring things a scanner skips: reused passwords, flat networks, stale accounts. If you are in a specific metro, we have local pages for Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Chandler too.
What we test
The penetration testing an Arizona business actually needs
A penetration test is scoped to your business, not sold off a shelf. Here is what we can put in scope. Pick the piece that fits the question you are trying to answer, or let us help you decide.
External Penetration Testing
We attack your internet-facing systems the way a real outsider would.
Internal Penetration Testing
What happens after someone is already inside the network.
Web Application Testing
Your customer portal, dashboard, or app, probed for real flaws.
Wireless Assessment
How safe your Wi-Fi really is, and who else can see it.
Phishing & Social Engineering
We test the part of security that no firewall covers: your people.
Cyber-Insurance Readiness
The assessment your insurance carrier actually wants to see.
HIPAA Penetration Testing
Testing for medical and dental practices, scoped to where patient data actually lives.
Secure Code Review
A security-focused read of your source code, before an attacker does it for you.
One thing worth saying plainly: having a VPN, a firewall, or a remote-access portal facing the internet is not a problem by itself. Those are supposed to be reachable. A real test checks whether they are patched, configured right, and behind multi-factor authentication, not whether they exist. We do not cry wolf about normal infrastructure.
Why businesses test
Why Arizona businesses get a penetration test
Most of the businesses we talk to across the state are not testing for fun. It usually comes down to one of these.
Cyber insurance
The most common reason an Arizona owner suddenly needs a test. Carriers increasingly want a recent penetration test before they will write or renew good coverage, and the questionnaire asks for it by name. We run the test and hand you a clean, dated report that answers what carriers ask.
How cyber insurance drives a testA customer or contract requires it
Larger customers push security requirements down to their vendors, and it happens across the state: technology and manufacturing suppliers in the East Valley, healthcare and financial partners in Phoenix and Scottsdale, and contract clauses everywhere in between. A current report keeps you eligible for the work.
Testing for client requirementsCompliance and audits
HIPAA, PCI, and SOC 2 all expect regular testing of the systems that hold sensitive data, in different ways and with different fine print. A scoped pentest gives an auditor the evidence they are looking for and tells you where the real gaps are. For medical and dental practices, we keep a dedicated page on testing for HIPAA.
HIPAA penetration testingYou just want to know where you stand
Plenty of owners are not under any mandate. They simply want an honest, outside read on where their business is exposed, before someone with bad intent finds out for them. That is a perfectly good reason on its own.
What a penetration test isAll of these are good reasons. None of them require you to be scared into it. A good test should leave you clearer and calmer, with a plan, not rattled.
Our approach
How a penetration test works, start to finish
No jargon, no drama, no surprises. Five steps from the first call to a confirmed fix. You always know what is happening and why.
- 01
Scope
A short call to agree exactly what we test, when, and the rules of engagement. We set the boundaries with you and put them in writing before anything starts.
- 02
Test
We run the assessment, automated tooling plus real hands-on manual testing, looking for what an attacker could actually chain together, not just a list of theoretical issues.
- 03
Report
You get a clear report in plain English: what we found, how serious each item really is, and proof. An executive summary your leadership can read and a technical section your IT team can act on.
- 04
Fix list
A prioritized, do-this-first remediation list. We are happy to walk your team or your existing IT provider through it on a call, in plain language.
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Retest
Once you have fixed what we found, we check your work and confirm the fixes hold. The retest is included on every tier, not billed back as an upsell.
Pricing
What a penetration test costs in Arizona
We publish our prices, which most firms will not do. External testing starts at $4,000. A full external-plus-internal test starts at $6,500. A full-scope engagement, external, internal, web application, and phishing, starts at $10,000. What moves the number is mostly the size of your environment and what you want in scope.
Most teams pay $10,000 or more per test, and a lot of the time that buys an automated scan with a logo on the report. We do manual and automated for less, and the retest is always included. No sales call required just to learn a price.
Want to see what you are buying?
The deliverable of a penetration test is the report, and the difference between a good one and a 200-page scanner dump is the difference between a fix list and a doorstop. We wrote a plain guide to exactly what a real report contains, section by section.
What a penetration test report looks likeWhy us
Why work with an Arizona penetration testing service
A lot of firms ranking for this search are national outfits or IT shops that added security on the side. Here is what you get with a focused, local specialist instead.
Arizona is what we do
It is in the name. We are an Arizona-based penetration testing company, not a national firm routing your test to whoever is free this quarter. You get a local, named team you can actually call, before, during, and after the test.
Manual and automated, every time
An automated scanner finds the obvious, known issues. A human finds the chain of small things, a reused password here, an over-shared drive there, that actually gets someone in. You get both on every engagement.
Transparent, published pricing
Our prices are on the site. Most firms make you sit through a sales call just to learn the number. We would rather you know up front, so you can plan, and so there is no sticker shock at the end.
Plain-English reports
A report nobody reads is worthless. Ours rank findings by how exploitable they really are and give you a fix list you can hand to your team. Not a 200-page tool dump with a logo on the cover.
An independent second opinion
We run as our own security specialist, a Desert Lakes Solutions company, so the test reads as a genuine outside opinion. If you have an IT person or an MSP, we are not here to trash them. We are here to check the work.
Authorized and scoped, always
We test only what you agree to, under a written agreement and your consent. That is not a caveat we mention once. It is how every engagement runs, start to finish.
Service area
Serving all of Arizona
Most of our work is in the Phoenix metro, because that is where most of Arizona's businesses are. But because the bulk of penetration testing is done remotely, a company in Flagstaff or a rural county gets exactly the same engagement as one in downtown Phoenix. If part of the work needs someone on site, such as a wireless assessment, we schedule it during scoping.
If you would rather see how we work in your own backyard, we keep metro-specific pages for Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Chandler. Everyone else lands here, and that is just fine: the test is the same wherever you are in the state.
FAQ
Penetration testing in Arizona: common questions
- What does a penetration test cost in Arizona?
- External testing starts at $4,000, a full external-plus-internal test starts at $6,500, and a full-scope engagement (external, internal, web application, and phishing) starts at $10,000. The final number depends on the size of your environment and what is in scope. A retest of your fixed findings is included in every tier.
- Do you serve businesses outside the Phoenix metro?
- Yes. Most penetration testing is done remotely, so a business in Flagstaff or anywhere else in Arizona gets the same engagement as one in downtown Phoenix. If part of the work needs someone on-site, such as a wireless assessment or an internal test you would rather have run in person than over a shipped device, we schedule it as part of scoping. We are Arizona-based, so on-site anywhere in the state is a drive, not a flight.
- Will a test satisfy our cyber-insurance questionnaire?
- Yes. Cyber insurance is the most common reason Arizona businesses come to us. We run the test and produce a clean, dated report that answers what carriers ask, plus a prioritized fix list so you can close any gaps before the renewal deadline.
- Is this a real manual test or just an automated scan?
- Both. Every engagement is an automated pass plus hands-on manual testing by a person. Manual testing is where the chained, real-world attack paths get found, the ones a scanner alone will miss. Insurers and serious clients can tell the difference, and so can attackers.
- How long does a penetration test take?
- Most small and mid-sized engagements run on the order of one to two weeks from scoping to report, depending on size and what is in scope. We agree a timeline with you during scoping so it fits around your operations, not the other way around.
- Does my small business actually need a penetration test?
- If your cyber-insurance carrier, a client, or a compliance framework is asking for one, then yes. Beyond that, any business holding customer data or running on a network worth protecting benefits from an honest, outside read on where it is exposed. If you are unsure, a short scoping call will tell you.
- What is in the report I get?
- A plain-English executive summary your leadership can read, a technical section your IT team can act on, every finding ranked by how exploitable it really is, proof for each one, and a prioritized fix list. It is written to be used, not filed away.
- What areas of Arizona do you serve?
- All of Arizona. That includes Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, and Peoria in the Valley, plus Flagstaff and businesses across the rest of the state. Because most testing is remote, location is rarely a limit on the work.
Find out where your Arizona business stands
Tell us a little about your business and what is prompting the test, an insurance renewal, a customer requirement, or just wanting to know. We will come back with a scope and a fair, fixed quote. No pressure, no sales theater.