Lares

Penetration testing and red team engagements for healthcare, finance, and critical infrastructure

Lares, a Damovo company, is a team of senior engineers and security experts founded in 2008. The firm co-created the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) and has led thousands of adversarial engagements for clients across healthcare, financial services, credit unions, critical infrastructure, oil and gas, transportation, retail, and ecommerce.

Services span penetration testing, red team and purple team testing, application and cloud security, AI security testing, insider threat and social engineering assessments, physical security testing, and advisory work. Lares also supports incident response planning, compliance and governance needs, and security awareness training, working with more than 600 customers worldwide across 4,500+ adversarial engagements to date.

18
YEARS IN BUSINESS
2
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Founded
2008 (18 years)

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Lares holds an Agency List Score of 73 out of 100.

That score is higher than 53% of the 36,920 agencies Agency List has assessed so far.

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