Penetration Testing in Boulder, CO
Human-led penetration testing for Boulder businesses and the systems they run on. Fixed price, audit-ready reports mapped to CMMC 2.0, and a free remediation retest.
What a penetration test is really for
CyberFortify runs manual web, API, network and cloud penetration tests for Boulder organizations, with findings mapped to CMMC 2.0 and the other frameworks Colorado businesses answer to.
Every organization assumes its controls work. A penetration test is how you find out whether they do before someone else does. Organizations in Boulder, part of Boulder County, operate within Colorado’s economy of aerospace, technology and energy, and the systems that run that work — the web apps, APIs, identity systems and cloud accounts that run day to day — are exactly what CyberFortify is engaged to test.
What makes a Boulder engagement worth the money is not the automated scan at the start. It is the tester who takes a low-severity information disclosure, pairs it with an over-privileged account, and demonstrates the path that ends somewhere it should never reach. That is the difference between a report you file and a report you act on.
That is the work CyberFortify does for Boulder: a named tester, manual exploitation, and a report written so your engineers can fix what we found and your auditor can accept that it was fixed.
The threats facing Boulder organizations
The threats that matter in Colorado track the work Boulder organizations actually do — here is where compromise tends to start in the sectors that define the local economy.
Aviation and aerospace
Aviation and aerospace operations combine safety-critical systems, complex supply chains and, frequently, defense work. The attack surface runs from corporate IT through manufacturing OT to the specialized systems that move aircraft, cargo and people, each with its own regulator watching.
We test corporate and manufacturing environments and the boundaries between them, supplier-facing systems and the identity that governs them, and the specific applications your operation depends on, mapping findings to the standards your sector answers to.
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.
We test tenant isolation and object-level authorization across accounts, the API surface your product and integrations expose, and the AWS, Azure or Google Cloud configuration that a single leaked key could turn into a full-tenant compromise.
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.
We test the enterprise environment and its connections into the control network, remote-access paths into field sites, and the segmentation meant to keep an office compromise away from operational systems — without ever putting live processes at risk.
Penetration testing services for Boulder
Pick the services that match your exposure; most Boulder clients run two or three together in one engagement.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Manual testing of the session, access-control and logic layers of your web apps.
API Penetration Testing
Authorization and data-exposure testing for REST and GraphQL interfaces.
Network Penetration Testing
External perimeter and internal Active Directory, tested the way an intruder moves.
OT & ICS Penetration Testing
Where a compromised business network reaches equipment that moves the physical world.
Cloud Penetration Testing
The metadata-service, role-assumption and public-bucket mistakes attackers hunt for.
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
iOS and Android against OWASP MASVS, client and backend both.
Evidence for the frameworks Colorado businesses answer to
Given Colorado’s aerospace, technology, energy and a large federal presence, these are the frameworks a Boulder engagement most often produces evidence for. One test, evidence for all of them.
CMMC 2.0
What your C3PAO expects to see before certification.
FedRAMP
Evidence for the authorization package, mapped to the required threat model.
SOC 2
Independent evidence for the Common Criteria and the vendor reviews that gate deals.
Organizations handling personal data in Colorado also fall under Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). It does not name penetration testing, but it expects reasonable security to be verified rather than assumed — and after an incident, a recent test is the evidence that it was.
How a Boulder engagement runs
The same sequence every time, so the result is defensible.
Testing aligns to PTES and NIST SP 800-115, application work follows OWASP, and exploitation maps to MITRE ATT&CK. Automated tooling enumerates the surface; a named tester confirms every finding by hand.
Findings your team can fix and your auditor accepts
Every finding is reproducible, scored in context, and tied to the control it defeats.
The example alongside is illustrative — not from a client engagement — to show how each issue is documented and mapped to CMMC 2.0 and the standards Colorado organizations answer to.
| Ref | Finding | Severity | CVSS |
|---|---|---|---|
| F-01 | IDOR exposes cross-tenant records | Critical | 9.1 |
| F-02 | Over-privileged service account | High | 8.2 |
| F-03 | Session persists after reset | Medium | 5.4 |
| F-04 | Verbose error disclosure | Low | 3.1 |
What sets a Boulder engagement with us apart
A scan-and-report vendor
Automated output rebadged as a test. Severities the tool assigned, findings you cannot reproduce, no real attempt at authorization logic or privilege escalation — and a report your assessor hands back. The retest is a new invoice.
CyberFortify
A named tester who works the target by hand, chains findings to prove real impact, and writes them so a Boulder engineer can fix them and an auditor can accept them. Fixed price, same-day critical escalation, retest included.
Penetration testing in Boulder, answered
Does the team have to travel to Boulder?
For the common cases, no. Anything reachable over the internet — web, API, cloud, external network — is tested remotely. On-site is reserved for internal, wireless and physical work, and we agree it and its cost during scoping.
What does a penetration test cost for a Boulder business?
There is no per-city rate; cost tracks the size of the engagement — how many apps, cloud accounts, hosts and roles are in scope. You get a fixed quote after scoping, usually the same hour, and it holds for the agreed work.
Can we hand the report straight to our assessor?
Yes. Every finding carries reproduction steps, CVSS v3.1 scoring and a control mapping, so an assessor can trace a requirement to the test that exercised it. For Colorado organizations that most often means CMMC 2.0, and we scope to the evidence your assessor expects.
What do you focus on for Aviation organizations?
We test corporate and manufacturing environments and the boundaries between them, supplier-facing systems and the identity that governs them, and the specific applications your operation depends on, mapping findings to the standards your sector answers to. In a Boulder engagement that usually starts with it-to-ot movement and works outward from there.
How does Colorado privacy law relate to testing?
Not by name. Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) requires reasonable security for personal data rather than a specific test, but a current penetration test is the standard way to show that requirement was met if you are ever questioned after a breach.
Can you sign our vendor security questionnaire?
Yes. We complete SIG, CAIQ and custom questionnaires and can join the vendor review call. For Boulder companies selling into larger enterprises, a current test plus a completed questionnaire is usually what unblocks the deal.
How quickly can you begin in Boulder?
Lead time is usually one to two weeks once scope is set, less if an audit or customer deadline is pressing. The scoping call is where we lock the price and the date.
Penetration testing near Boulder
We work across Colorado. See nearby cities or the full state overview.
Test your Boulder systems before someone else does.
A 30-minute scoping call gets you a fixed price and a start date, usually within the hour.