Security Requires Context
Focused on practical security solutions from an attacker's perspective, empowering teams to defend effectively.
Security with an attacker's perspective
Traditional security measures fall short against a threat landscape built by people who do this for a living. The key to a real defense is understanding the offense.
We provide security solutions designed with an attacker's mindset, empowering small and medium-sized teams to anticipate, identify, and mitigate threats effectively. Our tools are built to be intuitive, powerful, and to directly address the challenges modern defenders face.
Our flagship product
toolsA novel way to test your egress network policies against common Command & Control (C2) network communications. Puck simulates real-world attacker techniques, allowing you to proactively discover and remediate gaps in your outbound traffic rules before they can be exploited.
egress_policy: DENY 443/tcp → c2.example[.]net
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Offense-focused engagements that put 20+ years of hands-on experience at your fingertips. We proactively take on the hard problems and we don’t stop until they’re solved.
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Attack surface review
Mapping, discovery, and prioritization of everything you expose to the internet. Find it before an adversary does.
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Grey-box code review
Source review aimed at the code paths an attacker can actually reach, with working proof-of-concepts that prove exploitability rather than assert it.
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Adversary emulation
Red team and targeted attack simulation. Uncover and exercise the paths that matter to your business.
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Detection validation
Collaborative purple team work alongside your defenders to validate and improve your organization's protections.
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Offensive advisory
Architecture and program review from an attacker's seat. Where to spend next, and what is not worth your time yet.
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Hacker on retainer
A virtual Chief Hacking Officer. Ongoing support from a hacker who lives in offensive tooling, R&D, and exploit development.
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01 ·Abusing eBPF, Part 1: What even is eBPF?
What eBPF actually is, why it is interesting from an attacker's seat, and a first counter running in the kernel with Rust and aya.
02 ·Abusing DNS, Part 7: Who is in charge here?
The NS records that make a subdomain yours, and the delegation that lets any resolver on the internet find your server.
03 ·Abusing DNS, Part 6: It's all about who you know
Routing queries through the host's own resolver instead of straight at our server, so the traffic looks like everyone else's.
04 ·Abusing DNS, Part 5: Client says what?
Sending arbitrary data the other way, packed into the 63 characters a single DNS label will carry.
05 ·Abusing DNS, Part 4: Let the fun begin?
Getting real data out of a protocol built for tiny answers, by chunking it across repeated TXT queries.
06 ·Brain explode: AI is getting a little scary
A PE checksum problem, three AI tools, and the one that went and read the docs instead of inventing functions.
With over 20 years of dedicated offensive security experience, I set out to build Offensive Context. Practical offense is the driving force behind our simple and impactful solutions.
My career has been focused on offense, from building sophisticated exploits for red teams to founding and leading successful security startups. This perspective ensures our products are not just theoretically sound, but battle-tested and engineered for real-world impact.
That hands-on experience is embedded into every tool we create, giving our users a distinct advantage in navigating the complexities of modern cybersecurity.
Ready to improve your security context?
Let's get in touch and discuss how we can help.
contact@offensivecontext.com