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Senior-Led · US-Based · Fixed-Fee

We attack your
business before
the criminals do.

Adversim is a boutique cybersecurity firm built to disrupt the consulting model. No junior staff. No offshore delivery. No surprise billing. Just senior practitioners running real adversary simulations against your environment — and showing you exactly how to fix what they find.

Aligned With
NIST CSF
PTES
OWASP
MITRE ATT&CK
CMMC
HIPAA
NGCB Reg 5.260
Three Pillars / Core Services

Built for the way
attackers actually work.

Compliance checkboxes don't stop breaches. Real adversaries do not follow scope diagrams or rules of engagement — they exploit assumptions. Our services are organized around how attacks unfold, not how auditors expect them to look.

The Adversim Difference

Eight promises
we put in writing.

Most cybersecurity firms compete on logo size and bench depth. We compete on something rarer: delivering exactly what we said we would, for the price we quoted, by the people who quoted it.

/ 01

Senior-Only Delivery

Every engagement is run by a senior practitioner with 15+ years of hands-on experience. No bait-and-switch with junior staff after the SOW is signed.

/ 02

Fixed-Fee Pricing

You know the price up front. No padded hourly estimates, no scope creep invoices, no surprise change orders at the end of the month.

/ 03

100% US-Based

All testing performed by US-based professionals. Zero offshore delivery. Your sensitive findings never leave the country.

/ 04

Direct Practitioner Access

You talk to the people doing the work — not an account manager translating. Faster scoping, sharper answers, no telephone game.

/ 05

48-Hour Proposals

Scoping call today, proposal in your inbox the day after tomorrow. We don't waste your buying cycle with consulting theater.

/ 06

Reports You'll Actually Read

Findings prioritized by business risk, with reproduction steps, remediation guidance, and an executive narrative that doesn't read like a vulnerability scanner export.

/ 07

Methodology Over Tools

Anyone can run a scanner. We bring the experience to interpret what tools miss — chained exploits, business logic flaws, and the assumptions attackers love most.

/ 08

Built for Repeat Relationships

Most of our clients work with us year after year. We're built around partnership — not the one-and-done compliance shuffle that lets gaps grow back.

Where We Sit in the Market

The Big 4 is expensive.
Crowdsourcing is cheap.
We're built differently.

The cybersecurity testing market clusters at the extremes — overhead-heavy enterprise consultancies on one end, transactional bug-bounty platforms on the other. Adversim is the senior-led middle that most buyers were quietly looking for.

 
Adversim
Big 4 / Enterprise
Crowdsourced
Delivery Team Seniority
15+ years on every test
Senior partner pitches; junior delivers
Variable — anonymous testers
Pricing Model
Fixed fee, transparent
T&M with overruns
Pay-per-finding
Delivery Location
100% US-based
Mixed onshore / offshore
Global, often anonymous
Time to Proposal
~48 hours
2–4 weeks
Self-service config
Report Quality
Narrative + remediation playbook
Heavy template, light context
Individual ticket dumps
Relationship Model
Long-term partner
Procurement-driven
Transactional
Industries We Defend

Specialized depth
where the stakes are highest.

We focus on regulated, high-trust industries where a breach isn't just a headline — it's a license, a lawsuit, or a livelihood.

/ Vertical 01

Gaming & Casinos

Las Vegas-rooted expertise in NGCB Regulation 5.260, gaming system integrity, patron data protection, and high-stakes financial transaction security.

NGCB 5.260SIEMSOX
/ Vertical 02

Healthcare

HIPAA-aligned assessments, ePHI exposure testing, and infrastructure validation for hospitals, clinics, and health-tech vendors handling patient data at scale.

HIPAAHITRUSTHHS-OCR
/ Vertical 03

Financial Services

Penetration testing and assessments for banks, fintech platforms, RIAs, and payment processors. We protect trust where money moves.

GLBAFFIECPCI-DSS
/ Vertical 04

Legal & Professional Services

Confidentiality is your product. ABA Model Rule 1.6-aligned assessments, document management testing, and insider threat simulations for law firms of every size.

ABA 1.6GDPRCCPA
/ Vertical 05

SaaS & Cloud

Application security, multi-tenant cloud architecture review, API testing, and SOC 2 readiness for software companies whose product is uptime and trust.

SOC 2AWS / Azure / GCPOWASP
/ Vertical 06

Education & EdTech

K–12 districts, higher ed, and education technology vendors. Student data protection, phishing-resilience programs, and CMMC alignment for federally funded research.

FERPANIST 800-171CMMC
/ Vertical 07

Hospitality & Retail

Reservation systems, payment platforms, guest networks, and supply chain. Adversim secures the systems that move customers and capital simultaneously.

PCI-DSSPIICCPA
/ Vertical 08

Critical Infrastructure

OT-adjacent corporate networks, manufacturing, energy, and utilities. We help operators of essential systems prove resilience without slowing operations.

NIST CSFIEC 62443TSA SD
/ Vertical 09

Corporate & Mid-Market

50–1,000 employee businesses that need real security expertise without a Big 4 invoice. The Adversim sweet spot.

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Our Philosophy

We built the firm
we wished existed.

Cybersecurity consulting was supposed to be about expertise. Somewhere along the way, it became about overhead — junior delivery teams, offshore handoffs, hourly billing that rewards inefficiency, and senior partners who appear at the pitch and disappear at the kickoff.

Adversim is the alternative. Senior practitioners doing the work, US-based delivery only, fixed-fee pricing, and a buying experience that respects your time. You hire us. You get us. That's the entire model.

01

Expertise, not entourage

You pay for the people doing the work — not for office leases, layered management, or sales engineers who never see your environment.

02

Honesty over theater

If your environment is in worse shape than you thought, you'll hear it from us first — calmly, with a path forward. No catastrophizing for upsell.

03

Real attacks, real depth

Scanner output is a starting line, not a deliverable. We chain findings, test business logic, and pressure-test the assumptions defenders rely on.

04

Reports that get read

Executive narrative for the boardroom. Technical detail for the engineers. Remediation guidance that survives contact with reality.

05

Built for the long haul

One-and-done testing leaves gaps that grow back. We're built for annual partnerships — same practitioners, deeper context, compounding value.

How an Engagement Works

From first call to
final debrief — without
the meeting fatigue.

We've engineered our delivery workflow around one principle: every meeting we don't waste is a vulnerability you can fix sooner.

01
DAY 0
Scoping Call

One focused call. We learn your environment, goals, and constraints. No sales theater.

02
~48 HRS
Fixed-Fee Proposal

Clear scope, deliverables, timeline, and price. No T&M ambiguity.

03
WEEK 1–2
Engagement Letter

Sign, schedule, and kick off. Most clients are testing within 14 days of signing.

04
EXECUTION
Senior-Led Testing

Real attack chains, regular check-ins, immediate critical-finding escalation.

05
+1 WEEK
Report Delivery

Executive narrative, technical detail, business-prioritized remediation plan.

06
DEBRIEF
Working Debrief

Live walkthrough with your team. We answer the "now what?" questions in real time.

You don't need
a bigger firm.
You need a better one.

Tell us what's keeping you up at night. We'll tell you whether we can help — and if we can, you'll have a fixed-fee proposal in your inbox within 48 hours.

Common Questions

Straight answers,
like the rest of our work.

We deliver the same caliber of senior expertise — without the overhead, layered staffing, and offshore delivery models. Every Adversim engagement is led directly by a senior practitioner with 15+ years of experience. You get our best people on every test, not just at the sales pitch. Our fixed-fee pricing is typically about 20% below large-firm rates while preserving margin through lean operations.
Most engagements fall between $10,000 (focused, single-target tests) and $50,000 (comprehensive multi-vector assessments). Larger scoped programs and red team operations can run up to $250,000. Every quote is fixed-fee with assumptions written plainly in the proposal — no surprise change orders.
Proposals are delivered within roughly 48 hours of a scoping call. Once signed, most engagements kick off within 1–2 weeks. Rush scheduling is available for incident-driven or compliance-deadline situations.
Our testing methodology aligns to PTES, OWASP (web/API/mobile), OSSTMM, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Assessment work is structured around NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, CIS Controls, and industry-specific requirements like HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CMMC, SOC 2, ABA Model Rule 1.6, and NGCB Regulation 5.260.
No offshore delivery, ever. All work is performed by US-based professionals. We occasionally bring in vetted US-based specialist contractors for unique skill needs (industrial control systems, specialized cloud architectures), and they are held to the same senior-only delivery standard. Your data and findings never leave the country.
Reports include an executive narrative (no tool dumps), business-prioritized findings with severity context, full reproduction steps, evidence captures, and concrete remediation guidance. We follow every report with a live working debrief where your team can ask "now what?" questions in real time. Sample reports available on request under NDA.
Absolutely — and we frequently do. We can countersign your standard NDA before the first technical conversation. We can also provide our mutual NDA template if it accelerates the process.
Yes — and they're our preferred model. Most of our clients work with us year over year through annual testing programs, quarterly assessments, or fractional vCISO advisory. Recurring engagements are priced more favorably than one-off projects.
Let's Talk

Tell us what you
need tested.

A 30-minute scoping call is the fastest path to a fixed-fee proposal. No sales pressure, no enterprise theater — just a direct conversation with the practitioner who'll lead your engagement.

Office
5510 S Fort Apache Road, Suite 454
Las Vegas, NV 89148
Coverage
Remote-first · Serving clients nationwide
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