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Penetration Testing & Security Consulting

No quarter for vulnerabilities.

Cape Fear Information Security helps businesses find their weaknesses before the wrong people do — offensive security testing and pragmatic consulting, run by operators who've been on both sides of the fight.

What We Do

Offense-informed defense

We attack your systems the way a real adversary would, then help you fix what we find — and build the program that keeps it fixed.

Penetration Testing

Simulated attacks against your real environment, executed manually by experienced testers — not just a scanner report.

  • Network & infrastructure testing
  • Web & mobile application testing
  • Wireless & physical assessments
  • Social engineering & phishing simulations

Vulnerability Assessments

Broad, recurring visibility into your attack surface so new exposures get caught before they become incidents.

  • External & internal scanning
  • Risk-prioritized findings
  • Cloud configuration review
  • Remediation validation & retesting

Security Consulting

Fractional expertise for teams that need senior security judgment without a full-time headcount.

  • vCISO & program strategy
  • Policy & compliance readiness
  • Incident response planning
  • Security awareness training

The Voyage

How an engagement runs

Every engagement follows the same disciplined course — from charting the waters to handing you the map.

I

Scope

We define targets, rules of engagement, and success criteria together before anything begins.

II

Reconnaissance

We map your attack surface the way an adversary would — systems, people, and process.

III

Exploitation

We attempt real compromise, safely and under control, to prove impact — not just possibility.

IV

Report & Remediate

You get a clear, prioritized report and direct access to us while you fix what we found.

N S W E

Who We Are

Rooted in Cape Fear, working everywhere

Cape Fear Information Security is an offensive-security and consulting firm based in the Wilmington, NC area — a region with its own long history of things arriving by water uninvited. We bring that same wary, thorough mindset to modern networks.

We keep engagements small and senior. When you work with us, you work directly with the people doing the testing — not a rotating account team.

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