You want to know one thing: if a real attacker came for you tomorrow, could they pull off your worst day, and how far would they get before anyone noticed? The honest way to find out is to have skilled people try it, on purpose, and see what holds.
3What you need, and why
Three things, and what each gives you:
×Skip thisAnother vulnerability scan or a compliance audit. They measure hygiene, not whether the worst day is reachable.
Do this for $0 firstBefore any of it: the seven moves that cut real breach risk for $0. Most worst-days walk through doors those close.
Spend nothing first → When the board asks “are we secure?”, they want one clear, confident sentence you can stand behind. Saying it honestly takes recent, real evidence rather than a gut feeling or a year-old report.
3What you need, and why
What gives you an answer you can defend:
×Skip thisA once-a-year PDF that’s stale by the next morning. That’s what left you quiet in the meeting.
You’re spending real money on security and can’t honestly say whether it’s working. It’s a fair question. Unlike most of the budget debate, it has a concrete answer you can test for.
3What you need, and why
How to find out what your money is buying:
×Skip thisBuying another tool. More stack is the opposite of the answer here.
Do this for $0 firstRead the bill you already pay: turn on what you own, cut the shelfware. It often takes money off the invoice.
Spend nothing first → You’re adding AI to your products or your workplace, and you want to be sure it can’t be turned against you. We test what an attacker could make your AI do with the access you’ve given it, while you can still fix it, before it’s in front of customers.
2What you need, and why
What it takes to test AI properly:
×Skip thisA generic pen test that treats the AI like a normal web app. It isn’t one.
Do this for $0 firstOur checklist for the AI you’ve already shipped, mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10.
Read the guide → An auditor or a customer’s security questionnaire has landed, and there are two jobs hiding behind one deadline: passing the check, and actually being secure. They aren’t the same thing, and it pays to handle both on purpose.
3What you need, and why
What gets you through, and tells you the truth behind it:
×Skip thisThe idea that the stamp is the safety. A clean certificate and a secure company are not the same document.
A close call leaves you with two uncomfortable questions. Is someone already inside right now, and would you even spot it next time? Both are answerable, and worth answering before the near-miss becomes the real thing.
3What you need, and why
What answers both questions:
You know security needs attention, but with no team in place it’s hard to know where to begin. That’s a normal place to start. The honest first step is working out what actually matters for a business like yours, and in what order, before any testing.
2What you need, and why
Where to start from scratch:
Do this for $0 firstBefore you spend a penny: the seven moves that cut real breach risk for $0. With a small team, this is where the biggest, cheapest wins are.
Spend nothing first → The noise about AI “changing everything” or “ending us all” is mostly marketing. A few specific things have genuinely shifted for attackers and defenders; most of the rest is old attacks in fresh packaging. What helps is having someone separate the real changes from the hype, so your attention goes where it counts.
2What you need, and why
What’s actually changed, and what’s just noise:
Do this for $0 firstThe reassuringly dull part: most AI-assisted attacks still walk through the same open doors, like weak passwords, missing MFA, unpatched systems. The basics that stop ordinary attacks stop these too.
Spend nothing first → If an attack is unfolding right now, the priority is getting incident response engaged. That comes before any finder or test. Once things are contained, we’ll help make sure there isn’t a repeat.
