Penetration Testing in Texas
Manual, exploit-driven penetration testing for organizations across Texas. Audit-ready reports mapped to ISO 27001, fixed price, free remediation retest.
Security testing built for Texas’s economy
Texas’s economy runs on energy, technology, healthcare, aerospace and agriculture, 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 Texas businesses, with findings mapped to ISO 27001 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 Texas organizations
Risk in Texas looks different by industry. These are the sectors we most often test, and what an attacker targets in each.
Energy, oil and gas
Energy, oil-and-gas and chemical operators run industrial control systems and SCADA that were never designed to face the internet, now connected to it through remote-access and business systems. The consequence of compromise is not just data loss but physical process disruption, which is why NERC CIP and IEC 62443 exist.
Technology and SaaS
Software and SaaS companies carry a specific risk: a single flaw is multiplied across every customer on the platform. Multi-tenant isolation, API authorization and the cloud infrastructure underneath are the crown jewels, and a SOC 2 report is now the price of entry for selling to any serious buyer.
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.
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.
Penetration testing services across Texas
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 Texas businesses answer to
Given Texas’s energy, technology, healthcare, aerospace and agriculture, these are the frameworks a test most often produces evidence for. One engagement, evidence for all of them.
ISO 27001
Annex A 8.29 verification evidence for organizations certifying to the 2022 revision.
SOC 2
Independent testing evidence for the Common Criteria and the vendor questionnaires that gate enterprise deals.
HIPAA
The technical half of a Security Rule risk analysis for providers, payers and digital health.
Organizations handling personal data in Texas also fall under Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA), 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 Texas
Penetration testing delivered to organizations in 300 cities and towns statewide. Select yours for local detail.
Penetration testing in Texas, answered
Do you need to be on-site in Texas?
Usually not. Web, API, cloud and external network testing is delivered remotely from our US-based team, which covers most Texas engagements. Internal network, wireless and physical work is arranged on-site, with travel quoted up front.
What does a penetration test cost in Texas?
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 Texas organizations that most often means ISO 27001, and we scope to the evidence your assessor expects.
Does Texas law require security testing?
Texas does not name penetration testing outright, but Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) expects reasonable security for personal data to be maintained and verified. A recent test is how organizations evidence that after an incident.
Test your Texas systems before someone else does.
A 30-minute scoping call gets you a fixed price and a start date, usually within the hour.