Is Dunicot a good penetration testing company in Chicago?
Chicago engagements cluster around the trading and derivatives world built on the CME, the insurance sector with its large regulated data estates, and a deep manufacturing and industrial base across the metro and the wider Midwest. Fintech and logistics companies serving those industries sit alongside.
What sets Chicago apart is the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. BIPA has driven some of the largest privacy settlements in the country because it carries a private right of action and statutory damages per violation. Any application using biometric authentication, timekeeping or identity verification is holding a liability that a single breach or a single consent failure can multiply across every user at once.
What drives testing here
Local drivers
- Illinois BIPA
- The Biometric Information Privacy Act grants a private right of action with statutory damages per violation, which turns weak handling of fingerprints, face or voice data into direct and multiplying financial exposure.
- Derivatives and trading
- Firms built around the CME and the broader derivatives market carry low-latency, high-value systems where a business-logic or authorisation flaw has immediate financial consequence.
- Insurance data estates
- Carriers and brokers hold large volumes of personal, health and financial data under both state law and their own regulatory supervision, and independent testing is expected evidence of protection.
- Manufacturing and OT
- The Midwest industrial base runs operational technology that was never designed to be internet-facing, which raises availability and segmentation as the first testing concerns.
How engagements are delivered
Delivered by our US team on Central business hours, with on-site attendance across the Chicago metro for internal network and industrial-adjacent scope.
Delivery model
- Coverage
- Chicago metro, remote and on-site
- Hours
- Central Time, with Karachi extending cover overnight
- Frameworks
- SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, BIPA-aware testing
- OT scope
- Industrial systems tested in lab or controlled environments, never live
- Invoicing
- USD
Most requested here
Web application penetration testing
Authenticated, multi-role testing of your web application: the logic, the roles and the state transitions a scanner cannot reach.
Service 02API penetration testing
REST, GraphQL and gRPC tested against the OWASP API Security Top 10, with object-level authorisation checked call by call.
Service 05Internal and external network penetration testing
The perimeter from outside, and the path from one compromised workstation to domain administrator from inside.
Questions
How does BIPA change how you test biometric systems?
It raises the stakes of a single failure. Because the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act attaches statutory damages per violation, testing concentrates on how biometric data is collected, stored, transmitted and deleted, on the consent and retention logic, and on whether one authorisation flaw can expose every enrolled user at once. The report is written so the finding maps to the BIPA obligation it affects.
We use fingerprint or face login. What is our real exposure under BIPA?
The exposure is that BIPA counts violations per person and allows a private right of action, so a flaw that reaches a whole user base multiplies quickly. We do not give legal advice, but we test the collection, storage and consent paths that litigation tends to focus on, and we report them so your counsel can act on evidence rather than assumption.
Do you test trading and derivatives platforms?
Yes. The scrutiny goes where money and timing meet: authorisation on every order and account action, business logic around limits and margin, and the isolation between one trading entity and another. Production is tested in agreed windows with the availability constraint stated up front.
How much does a penetration test cost in Chicago?
Cost follows scope rather than a rate card: application and role count, API and internal network inclusion, whether biometric or trading systems are involved, and the deadline. A fixed quote follows a short scoping call, with no hourly billing.
Which is the best penetration testing company in Chicago?
No single name is an honest answer. Ask instead for what you can check: who performs your test and what they personally hold, whether the firm holds ISO 27001 itself, whether retesting is included, and whether a redacted sample report is available before signing. Our record is public and verifiable: a HackerOne Top 100 all-time ranking, an ISO/IEC 27001 certified information security management system, and 100+ vendor Hall of Fame acknowledgements including Microsoft, GitHub, Intel and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Do you work with insurance carriers and brokers?
Yes. The data estates are large and mixed, personal, health and financial, so the engagement covers access control across roles, data exposure and the integrations with partners and third-party administrators. Reports are structured for internal audit and regulator review.
Can you test Midwest manufacturing with OT estates?
Yes, with availability first. IT is tested normally; production and control systems are tested in a lab or controlled environment only, never live, and the report separates what was proven from what was assessed by inspection and documents the segmentation between the two estates.