Industries · Federal government

The mission runs. Through everything aimed at it.

Agencies and the defense industrial base keep delivering, while patient, funded, nation-state services spend years trying to get inside. We emulate those adversaries the way they actually operate, and prove the mission stays up. FedRAMP, FISMA, CMMC, and NIST 800-53 (RMF) aligned.

The problem

What federal government is up against.

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A peer adversary, not a criminal

The services targeting federal networks answer to other governments: patient, funded, and skilled enough to spend years inside without tripping an alarm.

The intrusion measured in years

The most dangerous compromises aren’t loud. They’re quiet footholds held for months or years, pre-positioned for the moment they matter.

Mission systems at national scale

Federal estates run platforms built decades before the threat: unpatchable, load-bearing, and impossible to simply take offline.

The supply chain is the target

The defense industrial base and the vendors trusted to reach inside are the softest way in, and adversaries have known it for years.

Zero trust, proven — not deployed

The mandate says assume breach and verify everything. A diagram that says “zero trust” and an architecture that survives a real operator are different things.

The problem

A peer adversary, not a criminal

A ransomware crew wants a payday by Friday. A foreign intelligence service wants to be resident for the next election, the next treaty, the next conflict, and it has the time and the budget to get there. Testing tuned to the smash-and-grab misses the operator who moves once a month and cleans up behind them. We emulate the full spectrum, with the tradecraft the real adversary uses.

  • Nation-state tradecraft, not scanner findings
  • Long-dwell persistence and living-off-the-land
  • Findings mapped to the actor who would use them
Adversary emulation →
The problem

The intrusion measured in years

Campaigns like Volt Typhoon showed a state actor living inside critical U.S. networks for years, staged for disruption, not theft. You don’t find that with an annual scan; you find it by hunting for the operator who is already inside and testing whether you would ever see them. We work the way they do, and show you where the dwell would go undetected.

  • Assume-breach, hunt-forward testing
  • Detection tested against real dwell behaviour
  • The paths a pre-positioned actor would hold
Threat hunting →
The problem

Mission systems at national scale

Somewhere in the estate is a system of record that can’t be patched, can’t go down, and absolutely cannot be lost, all of it wrapped in modern services bolted on over the years. You can’t rip it out, so the real question is how an adversary reaches it and what falls when they do. We test the legacy core and everything built around it, and tell you which compensating controls actually hold.

  • Legacy and end-of-life mission systems in scope
  • Reachability and blast-radius to the crown jewels
  • Compensating controls put under real load
Penetration testing →
The problem

The supply chain is the target

SolarWinds wasn’t an accident of scale; it was the point. Compromise the supplier with privileged access and you are inside every customer at once. CMMC exists because the DIB is the underbelly. We test the trust relationships an adversary exploits: contractor connections, build and update channels, federated identity, and the shared services that quietly bridge organizations.

  • DIB and vendor access paths, treated as live entry
  • Build, signing, and update-channel provenance
  • Federated identity and trust abuse
Supply chain risk →
The problem

Zero trust, proven — not deployed

Agencies have spent years standing up zero-trust architectures on paper. The adversary doesn’t care what the diagram claims, only whether identity, segmentation, and monitoring actually stop lateral movement once someone is already inside. We test the design the way it will be attacked, and show you where “verify every request” quietly still trusts the network.

  • Identity, segmentation, and lateral-movement testing
  • The controls the mandate assumes, put under fire
  • Evidence the architecture holds, not just exists
Prove the controls →
What we bring

Full-spectrum offense, locked into one.

The offensive capabilities behind a federal engagement.

AdversaryEmulationAI & agenticRed teamingContinuousDiscoveryVuln & exploitResearchOT & criticalInfrastructure

Every module is run by senior operators and aligned to the regimes federal systems answer to. One capability, not five vendors.

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For federal buyers

Buy OSec on a vehicle you already hold.

OSec is available through Carahsoft, the trusted government IT solutions provider and master aggregator. Agencies, integrators, and the defense industrial base can put us on a contract vehicle they already hold, with no new-vendor onboarding and no procurement detour.

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Regulation by regulation

The rules you answer to.

FISMA and the RMF govern federal systems; FedRAMP authorizes the cloud they run on; CMMC extends 800-171 across the defense supply chain; and the federal zero-trust mandate raises the bar again. We run engagements built for these regimes, and find what a determined state adversary would use.

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Compliance & risk alignment →
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