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About Vextrace

WHO WE ARE.

We are a specialized intelligence and offensive security firm. Not a generalist IT company. Not a compliance checkbox service. A team of certified practitioners who have chosen to go deep — in the disciplines that matter when real adversaries target real organizations.

Our Story

Built for depth,
not breadth.

Vextrace was founded on a simple premise: most organizations are sold security services that look good on paper but fail under real adversarial pressure. Vulnerability scans that never get remediated. Pentest reports that collect dust. Compliance certifications that don't translate into actual resilience.

We built Vextrace to be different. We operate at the intersection of intelligence and offensive security — combining the investigative discipline of OSINT and geospatial analysis with the technical rigor of certified penetration testing and red team operations.

Our professionals are practitioners first. Every engagement is executed by people who have operated in real environments — financial infrastructure, critical energy systems, telecommunications networks, and complex enterprise architectures. We bring that operational experience to every client.

We also believe in education. Vextrace Academy offers 12 free cybersecurity courses — because the best investment in the security ecosystem is raising the baseline knowledge of everyone who defends it.

4Core disciplines
2Mile2 certifications
12Free courses
6+Sectors served
Our approach
"The question is not whether you will be breached. It is whether you will detect it fast enough to limit the damage — and whether you understood your real exposure before it happened."
What We Do
01 · Intelligence
OSINT & Geospatial
Open-source intelligence investigations, digital profiling, geospatial analysis, satellite imagery and forensic geolocation. We extract intelligence from publicly available data with analytical-grade methodology.
$ exploit --rce ↳ root shell
02 · Offensive
Penetration Testing
Certified offensive security assessments across web, API, network, cloud and infrastructure. Mile2 CPTE certified. Every engagement delivers a prioritized remediation roadmap — not just a list of findings.
Mile2 CPTE
03 · Adversarial
Red Team Operations
Full-spectrum adversarial simulations — social engineering, physical access, custom C2, EDR evasion, lateral movement. Mile2 CPEH certified. Full MITRE ATT&CK mapping in every engagement.
Mile2 CPEH
04 · Emerging
AI & LLM Security
Security testing for AI systems — prompt injection, RAG vulnerabilities, agentic pipeline testing and model red teaming. Aligned with OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and NIST AI RMF.
Sectors We Serve

Our teams have operated across highly regulated and high-stakes industries. We understand the specific threat landscape, compliance requirements and risk appetite of each sector.

Financial Services
Banking institutions, payment processors, insurance companies and capital markets. Pentest of core banking APIs, Active Directory assessments, social engineering campaigns targeting high-value targets, and regulatory compliance (PCI-DSS, DORA, TIBER-EU).
Energy & Utilities
Oil and gas, electricity distribution, water treatment and renewable energy operators. OT/SCADA security assessments, network segmentation review, red team exercises against critical infrastructure and supply chain intelligence.
Telecommunications
Mobile operators, ISPs and network infrastructure providers. Core network security assessments, SS7/Diameter protocol analysis, subscriber data protection, lawful intercept security and insider threat intelligence.
Retail & E-Commerce
Online retailers, omnichannel operators and payment platforms. Web application pentesting, API security, loyalty program fraud investigation, OSINT on competitor intelligence and customer data protection assessments.
Technology & SaaS
Software companies, cloud-native startups and enterprise technology providers. Comprehensive application security, cloud configuration review (AWS/Azure/GCP), source code review, DevSecOps integration and AI/LLM security testing.
Government & Defence
Public sector entities, defence contractors and intelligence-adjacent organizations. OSINT and geospatial intelligence support, red team exercises, insider threat programmes, and security posture assessments for classified-adjacent environments.
Certifications

Certified by Mile2.
Recognized by the US DHS.

Our offensive security professionals hold active certifications issued by Mile2 — one of the most rigorous offensive security certification bodies globally, accredited by the US Department of Homeland Security through the NICCS National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.

We do not hire generalists and train them in security. We hire practitioners who have already demonstrated technical competency through verified, examination-based certification — and who bring real operational experience to every engagement.

All engagements follow internationally recognized standards: PTES, OWASP Testing Guide, and MITRE ATT&CK Framework.

Mile2 · Certified
CPTE
Certified Penetration Testing Engineer
Reconnaissance, enumeration, exploitation, post-exploitation and professional reporting. Aligned with PTES and NIST. Recognized by the US DoD and DHS.
Mile2 · Certified
CPEH
Certified Professional Ethical Hacker
Full ethical hacking cycle — footprinting, scanning, exploitation, social engineering and IDS/firewall evasion. Core foundation for advanced red team operations.
Standards · Methodology
PTES + OWASP + ATT&CK
Every engagement, every time
PTES (Penetration Testing Execution Standard), OWASP Testing Guide, and full MITRE ATT&CK Framework mapping for red team engagements.
Our Values
01
Depth over breadth
We specialize in four disciplines and execute them at the highest level. We do not offer services we cannot deliver with genuine expertise. If it is not in our scope, we say so.
02
Adversarial thinking
We approach every engagement from the attacker's perspective. We do not look for vulnerabilities — we try to exploit them. The difference between a pentest and a real attack should be nothing but authorization.
03
Actionable output
A finding without a clear remediation path is noise. Every report we deliver closes with a prioritized roadmap — specific, ordered by real business risk, and executable by your team.
04
Confidentiality always
We operate under strict NDAs. We never disclose client names, sectors or engagement details. The trust our clients place in us when they open their infrastructure is not something we take lightly.
05
Education as mission
Security knowledge should not be expensive or exclusive. Vextrace Academy offers 12 free courses with no registration required — because a more educated industry is a more secure one.
06
Stay at the frontier
Adversaries evolve. We evolve faster. Our AI and LLM security practice exists because we identified an emerging attack surface before most of the market was aware of it. We intend to stay ahead.

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