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Monitoring & incident response
Every engagement is staffed by a senior engineer who tests your attack surface — the same way a real adversary would. Automated tools map the landscape; our engineers exploit what matters.
One team. No subcontractors. No offshore handoffs. The engineer on your scoping call is the same one who delivers the final report.
Our story
Fortress MSSP was built out of a specific frustration: most security vendors sell engagement management, not expertise. A capable salesperson closes the deal, a project manager schedules the work, and a junior analyst runs a scanner. The client receives a report that no single person fully understands from end to end.
We operate differently. Every client relationship is handled by the same senior engineer who understands your environment at a routing table level, knows which CVEs are actually exploitable in your context, and can explain every finding to your development team, your CISO, and your auditor — because they wrote the report themselves.
Based in New York City, we built Fortress for financial services, healthcare, and enterprise technology organizations that operate in the most heavily regulated, most targeted threat landscapes in the world — organizations that cannot afford ambiguity in their security posture and will not tolerate a vendor who disappears after the contract is signed.
“I built Fortress because I was tired of delivering reports I knew the client couldn't act on. The model is simple: one engineer, full ownership, no layers between the person doing the work and the person paying for it.”
— Founder & Principal Engineer, Fortress MSSP
The same engineer who scopes your engagement conducts the assessment, writes your findings report, and answers your calls afterward. No account managers. No escalation paths. No context lost between teams.
Our experienced penetration testers use industry tools for efficient reconnaissance and baseline scanning. Human judgment — adversary reasoning and attack path chaining — validates findings and uncovers vulnerabilities that pattern matching alone cannot find.
We specialize in financial services, healthcare, and enterprise technology — industries where ambiguity in security posture is not an option. We produce deliverables that go directly to your auditor, not to a rewrite queue.
We design, operate, and attack infrastructure with the same depth of knowledge. Understanding how enterprise networks function at a routing and switching level is what makes a credible penetration tester — and what separates actionable findings from noise.
Most vendors list frameworks without explaining what they prove. Here is what each standard means for the quality of work you receive.
A structured, repeatable testing framework so every engagement follows the same rigorous process — nothing gets skipped.
The industry standard for web application testing — ensures we test for every known vulnerability class, not just the obvious ones.
Deliverables map directly to the framework your auditors and insurers already use — no translation needed.
NYC financial firms must comply. Our assessments produce documentation that satisfies DFS examination requirements directly.
Request a complimentary risk assessment and receive a sample of the depth, clarity, and actionability you can expect from every engagement.
Start with a complimentary infrastructure risk assessment. We will identify your critical exposure points, prioritize remediation, and give you a clear path forward — with no obligation and no sales pressure.