Is Dunicot a good penetration testing company in New York City?
New York work clusters around regulated finance and the technology sold into it: banks and broker-dealers, hedge funds and asset managers, insurers, and the fintech and payments companies that integrate with all of them. Media, advertising and publishing platforms sit alongside, carrying large volumes of personal data under state law rather than a financial regulator.
The buying trigger here is rarely a roadmap item. It is a specific obligation attached to a date: an NYDFS filing that certifies compliance, a counterparty due-diligence pack a fund has to complete before an allocation, or an enterprise security review that a SaaS vendor must clear to close a bank as a customer.
What drives testing here
Local drivers
- NYDFS Part 500 (23 NYCRR 500)
- The New York Department of Financial Services names annual penetration testing for covered entities, with the results reported up to the board or senior governing body.
- SEC and counterparty diligence
- Registered advisers and funds face cybersecurity scrutiny from examiners and from institutional investors whose due-diligence questionnaires ask for current independent testing.
- NY SHIELD Act
- The Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act obliges any business holding private information of New York residents to keep reasonable safeguards, which independent testing helps evidence.
- Enterprise sales to Wall Street
- A SaaS or fintech vendor selling into a New York bank clears a security review before signing, and a current penetration test report is the artefact that review asks for first.
How engagements are delivered
Delivered by our US team on Eastern business hours, with Karachi extending cover into the New York evening, and on-site attendance in Manhattan available for internal network scope or board readouts.
Delivery model
- Coverage
- New York metro, remote and on-site
- Hours
- Eastern Time, with Karachi extending cover into the evening
- Frameworks
- NYDFS Part 500, SOC 2, PCI DSS, SHIELD Act
- Reporting
- Board-ready summary plus engineer-facing technical report
- 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
Does NYDFS Part 500 require annual penetration testing?
Yes. For covered entities the regulation names annual penetration testing alongside regular vulnerability assessment, with the results reported to the board or an equivalent governing body. Reports are structured for that reporting line, with scope, methodology and remediation status set out so the finding can be certified rather than paraphrased.
We are a fund answering an investor due-diligence questionnaire. What do you provide?
An attestation letter written for exactly that: scope, dates, methodology, severity counts and remediation status, with no exploitation detail, suitable for sending to an allocator or institutional counterparty under NDA. The full technical report stays with your engineering team.
How does the SHIELD Act affect us if we are not a financial firm?
The SHIELD Act reaches any business holding private information of New York residents, not only regulated finance, and it expects reasonable administrative and technical safeguards. Independent testing is one of the clearer ways to show those safeguards were assessed against an attacker rather than assumed.
How much does a penetration test cost in New York?
Cost follows scope rather than a New York rate card: the number of applications, roles, tenancies and hosts, whether an internal network or API is included, and the filing or sales deadline behind it. A fixed quote follows a short scoping call, with no hourly billing.
Which is the best penetration testing company in New York City?
No single name is an honest answer in a market this size, this one included. Ask instead for what you can check: who actually performs your test and what they personally hold, whether the firm holds ISO 27001 itself, whether retesting is included, and whether you can review a redacted sample report 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.
Can you work to our NYDFS certification timeline?
Yes. The engagement is scheduled so testing, remediation and a retest all complete before the certification date, which means the board sees a closed loop rather than open findings carried into the filing.
Do you test for fintech platforms integrating with New York banks?
Regularly. The scrutiny concentrates where money and tenancy meet: payment flows, business logic around limits and refunds, and the isolation between one bank customer and another. The report is written so it can be passed to the bank's own vendor security review.
Can on-site attendance in Manhattan be arranged?
Yes, for internal network testing or a board and audit-committee readout. Application, API and cloud scope is delivered remotely, which starts faster, with the readout scheduled to Eastern hours.