Penetration Testing in Maryland
Manual, exploit-driven penetration testing for organizations across Maryland. Audit-ready reports mapped to CMMC 2.0, fixed price, free remediation retest.
Security testing built for Maryland’s economy
Maryland’s economy runs on biotechnology, cybersecurity and defense, healthcare and government, and the organizations behind it carry the same exposure as their larger peers elsewhere — often with leaner security teams. CyberFortify runs manual web, API, network and cloud penetration tests for Maryland businesses, with findings mapped to CMMC 2.0 and the other frameworks they answer to.
A penetration test answers the question a scan cannot: what an attacker could actually reach, and how far they could get once inside. Every finding is exploit-proven, CVSS-scored and tied to the control it defeats — written so your engineers can fix it and your auditor can accept it.
The threats facing Maryland organizations
Risk in Maryland looks different by industry. These are the sectors we most often test, and what an attacker targets in each.
Life sciences and pharma
Biotech, pharmaceutical and medical-device organizations run on intellectual property — research data, trial results, formulations and device firmware — that is valuable to competitors and nation-state actors alike. Regulated environments add data-integrity obligations under 21 CFR Part 11, where an unauthorized change to a record is as serious as its theft.
Defense and aerospace suppliers
Defense contractors and aerospace suppliers handle controlled unclassified information and, often, export-controlled technical data under ITAR and EAR. CMMC 2.0 and NIST SP 800-171 now gate the ability to hold DoD contracts at all, and a single subcontractor is a documented path into a much larger program.
Healthcare and providers
Provider groups, clinics and digital-health companies hold protected health information across patient portals, scheduling systems, EHR integrations and a widening fleet of connected devices. A single broken authorization check can expose one patient’s record or an entire panel, and the HIPAA Security Rule treats that exposure as a reportable event with real financial and reputational cost.
Government and public sector
State and local agencies, and the contractors serving them, hold citizen data and run services that must not go down, on budgets that rarely match the threat. Ransomware against public bodies is now routine, and federal work brings FedRAMP, StateRAMP and CJIS obligations that expect independent testing as evidence.
Penetration testing services across Maryland
Most engagements combine two or three, scoped to where a compromise would cost you most.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Broken access control, cross-tenant authorization, and the business logic flaws no scanner has a signature for.
API Penetration Testing
Broken object-level authorization, token scope and lifetime, mass assignment, and rate-limit bypass.
Network Penetration Testing
Credential paths, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and whether segmentation holds under pressure.
Cloud Penetration Testing
Over-broad IAM, exposed storage, metadata service access, and escalation from one compromised workload.
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Local data storage, certificate pinning, and the backend once client-side controls are bypassed.
Red Teaming
Goal-based simulation that measures whether your team catches the attempt before it succeeds.
Evidence for the frameworks Maryland businesses answer to
Given Maryland’s biotechnology, cybersecurity and defense, healthcare and government, these are the frameworks a test most often produces evidence for. One engagement, evidence for all of them.
CMMC 2.0
NIST SP 800-171 and DFARS evidence for defense contractors handling controlled unclassified information.
HIPAA
The technical half of a Security Rule risk analysis for providers, payers and digital health.
FedRAMP
Penetration testing to the PMO attack vectors for cloud services pursuing federal authorization.
Organizations handling personal data in Maryland also fall under Maryland Online Data Privacy Act, which expects reasonable security to be verified rather than assumed — and after an incident, a recent test is the evidence that it was.
Cities we serve across Maryland
Penetration testing delivered to organizations in 157 cities and towns statewide. Select yours for local detail.
Penetration testing in Maryland, answered
Do you need to be on-site in Maryland?
Usually not. Web, API, cloud and external network testing is delivered remotely from our US-based team, which covers most Maryland engagements. Internal network, wireless and physical work is arranged on-site, with travel quoted up front.
What does a penetration test cost in Maryland?
Price follows scope, not location — the number of applications, cloud accounts, hosts and user roles in scope. After a 30-minute scoping call we return a fixed price, usually within the hour, and it does not move once work begins.
Will the report satisfy our auditor?
Yes. Every finding carries reproduction steps, CVSS v3.1 scoring and a control mapping. For Maryland organizations that most often means CMMC 2.0, and we scope to the evidence your assessor expects.
Does Maryland law require security testing?
Maryland does not name penetration testing outright, but Maryland Online Data Privacy Act expects reasonable security for personal data to be maintained and verified. A recent test is how organizations evidence that after an incident.
Test your Maryland systems before someone else does.
A 30-minute scoping call gets you a fixed price and a start date, usually within the hour.