Penetration Testing for Atlanta and Georgia Companies
Penetration testing in Atlanta is an authorized attack on your web applications, APIs, networks and cloud by certified testers, scoped to a goal such as PCI DSS, HIPAA or SOC 2. Budget Security delivers it to Atlanta and Georgia companies remotely from The Hague: OSCP-certified testers, $985 per tester-day for US clients (€849 per day for EU clients), a start within 7 days of booking, and findings in a dashboard.
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What we test for Atlanta companies
Every engagement is scoped by asset and goal, not by a sales call. You register your assets in the platform, pick the goal (PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC or a plain security test) and a budget. The scoping engine proposes the test plan: how many tester-days, which areas get depth, and exactly what a shorter scope leaves out.
What we test:
- Web applications: authenticated and unauthenticated, manual testing of business logic and access control.
- APIs: the interfaces your mobile apps, partners and payment flows depend on.
- External and internal networks: your perimeter, and what an attacker reaches once inside.
- Cloud: configuration and identity in your cloud accounts.
- Mobile apps: iOS and Android apps and the backends behind them.
Most first tests for Atlanta companies are grey box and run 3 to 5 tester-days. Retests of fixed findings are booked from the same dashboard.
Transaction Alley: PCI DSS 11.4 testing for payments and fintech
Atlanta handles more than 70 percent of US payment transactions. Six of the ten largest US payment processors are headquartered in Georgia, and the state counts more than 200 fintech companies. If you are one of them, or you sell software into them, PCI DSS is your testing driver.
PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4 requires external and internal penetration testing at least once every 12 months and after any significant change to infrastructure or applications. Exploitable vulnerabilities must be corrected and retested. The tester needs organizational independence, which rules out your own developers, but does not need to be a QSA or ASV.
A Budget Security PCI engagement scopes the cardholder data environment and the segmentation around it, tests from outside and inside, and reports each finding with a severity, a reproduction path and a fix. Fixed findings are retested from the dashboard, so your QSA sees a closed loop instead of a PDF and a promise. Full requirement breakdown: PCI DSS penetration testing.
Healthcare: HIPAA 164.308(a)(8) evaluations for Georgia health systems and health-tech
Georgia's largest health systems sit in metro Atlanta: Piedmont with 20 hospitals, Wellstar with 13, Emory with 11 and Northside with 6. Around them is a layer of health-tech, billing, telehealth and practice-management vendors that sign business associate agreements and inherit the same obligations.
The HIPAA Security Rule, 45 CFR 164.308(a)(8), requires a periodic technical and nontechnical evaluation of your safeguards. The rule never uses the words "penetration test". In practice, a manual test of the systems that hold ePHI is the evidence auditors and HHS OCR look for when they ask how you evaluated your technical controls.
We scope HIPAA tests around the ePHI boundary: patient portals, the APIs between EHR and vendor systems, the internal segments that hold records, and the cloud accounts behind them. Guide and scope examples: HIPAA penetration testing.
SOC 2 for Atlanta SaaS
SOC 2 is not a law. It is the report your enterprise customers ask for before they sign, and it is the most common reason a US SaaS company books its first pentest. Your auditor wants an independent test of the production environment, with findings tracked to closure, inside the audit period.
Pick the SOC 2 goal when you scope and the plan is built around it. The report is written to drop into a SOC 2 audit file, and the dashboard keeps the remediation history your auditor will ask about next year. Details: SOC 2 penetration testing.
Defense suppliers around Augusta and Fort Eisenhower: CMMC
Two hours east of Atlanta, Augusta hosts Fort Eisenhower, home to U.S. Army Cyber Command, the NSA Georgia Cryptologic Center and DISA, plus the Georgia Cyber Center. The supplier base around it handles controlled unclassified information and is working through CMMC assessments now that the DFARS rule is in force.
Be precise about what CMMC asks for. Level 2 does not mandate a penetration test; it requires vulnerability scanning every 90 days. Level 3 requires a penetration test every year. If a prime contractor's flow-down asks for test evidence at Level 2 anyway, a scoped pentest of the CUI enclave is the cleanest answer. Level breakdown: CMMC penetration testing.
Georgia law: what O.C.G.A. 10-1-912 and HB 156 do and do not require
Georgia has no statute that tells an ordinary business to run a penetration test. Here is what it does have.
O.C.G.A. 10-1-912 is a breach-notification law. It covers information brokers and data collectors that hold computerized personal information of Georgia residents, plus third parties that maintain that data on their behalf. After a breach you must notify affected residents in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay. A third party holding the data must notify the data owner within 24 hours. A breach affecting more than 10,000 Georgia residents also triggers notice to the nationwide consumer reporting agencies. Enforcement runs through the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act.
HB 156 (2021) covers state agencies and utilities. They must report cyberattacks, data breaches or malware to GEMA/HS within two hours of notifying federal emergency management agencies when the incident threatens life safety, the security of data and information systems, or critical service delivery.
What Georgia does not have: a comprehensive consumer privacy act (the privacy text was removed from SB 111 before it was signed in 2026) and an insurance data security law. If a vendor page tells you a Georgia privacy act took effect in 2026, it is wrong.
So the testing mandates for Georgia companies come from the federal and industry rules above: PCI DSS, HIPAA, GLBA and CMMC. A pentest is also the most direct answer to the question counsel and insurers ask after an incident: what did you do to find this first? Atlanta has reason to ask. The 2018 SamSam ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta is still the reference case, and in November 2025 the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority was listed by the Devman ransomware group.
This page is not legal advice.
How delivery works without an Atlanta office
We do not have an Atlanta office, and we will not pretend to. Testing is delivered remotely by OSCP-certified testers based in The Hague, Netherlands, working hours that overlap the US Eastern business day. Kickoff, status updates and the findings walkthrough happen on video and in the dashboard.
Remote delivery is the norm in penetration testing, not the exception. A pentest targets systems reachable over a network, so the tester's location changes nothing about the test. Several firms that rank for Atlanta pentest searches state on their own pages that they test remotely from other states. It is also why Google shows no map listings for these searches: penetration testing is not a walk-in service.
How an engagement runs:
- Scope and book online. The platform proposes the plan. You adjust days and see what changes. Booking happens at /order-pentest/.
- Start within 7 days of booking. Earlier starts depend on tester availability and carry an urgency fee. Rescheduling after confirmation is not free.
- Testing runs on the agreed days with a live view of progress in the dashboard.
- Report within 48 hours after the test ends, in the dashboard, with an audit-ready export.
- You pay after the report is delivered. Retests are booked from the same place.
Internal network tests that need a foothold inside your Atlanta office run over an access method you control; we agree on it during scoping.
Atlanta has a strong security community of its own, with BSides Atlanta at Georgia Tech on 3 October 2026 and Fintech South at Truist Park each August. Local expertise is not the gap. Testing capacity on a fixed date at a fixed price is.
FAQ
Penetration testing in Atlanta: questions we get
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Scope your Atlanta pentest in minutes. Pick your assets and goal, see the plan and the price, book the start date.
$985 per tester-day for US clients (€849 per day for EU clients). Start within 7 days. Report within 48 hours after testing ends. Pay after delivery.