BrickellTechnologies

Miami · South Florida

A cybersecurity company that is actually in Miami.

Most of the firms you will find searching this have a head office somewhere else and a page with your city dropped into it. We are here, we can be in your building this week, and the person who shows up is the one who does the testing.

Scope an engagement What we test

What South Florida gets attacked for

The threat picture here is not generic. It is shaped by what the region does for money, and four patterns come up repeatedly.

Real estate and title

Wire fraud around closings is the most reliably profitable attack in this market and it barely qualifies as hacking. Someone gets into a mailbox, reads quietly for a few weeks, learns the rhythm of a deal, and sends revised wiring instructions at exactly the right moment. No malware, nothing for an antivirus to catch. The defences that work are mailbox hardening, mandatory out-of-band verification of any change to payment details, and finding out whether your staff will actually follow that policy when a deal is closing on a Friday afternoon. Most of them will not, until somebody tests it.

Banking, wealth management and fintech

Brickell is full of private banks, family offices, broker-dealers and payments companies, and they share a problem: authorisation logic that grew organically. Who can approve a transfer, who can read whose portfolio, what a support agent can see. Those are application testing questions, and they are the questions automated tools are worst at, because a scanner has no idea which account is supposed to belong to whom.

Trade and logistics

Businesses around PortMiami and the airport run on integrations they do not own: partner EDI links, customs brokers, freight platforms, and a long tail of legacy systems nobody wants to touch because freight stops if they break. That combination produces a specific kind of exposure, where the risky systems are also the ones with the least appetite for testing. It can be done. It needs scoping carefully and a phone number that reaches a human during the test window.

Healthcare and hospitality

Health systems carry the HIPAA Security Rule and a fleet of devices that predate anyone currently employed. Hotels and restaurants carry PCI DSS and a payment environment spread across more locations than the finance team realises. In both cases the useful first move is usually scope reduction: shrinking what has to be assessed before assessing it.

What being local actually changes

Less than vendors imply, and more than nothing. Roughly half of what we do is remote by nature and would be identical from anywhere: external network, web applications, APIs, cloud accounts, mobile builds.

The other half is not. Internal network testing goes faster when somebody can plug into your network rather than shipping a device and talking your IT person through it. Wireless assessment requires being in range. Physical and social engineering means walking into the building. And a report readout lands differently in a room than on a call. If a firm's Miami page never mentions on-site work, that is usually because there is no one here.

Compliance drivers we see most

  • FTC Safeguards Rule, which catches title companies, mortgage brokers, auto dealers and tax preparers, and surprises most of them
  • PCI DSS across hospitality and retail
  • HIPAA for health systems and their business associates
  • SOC 2, usually because an enterprise customer put it in a contract with a date attached

All four eventually ask for evidence that somebody tested the environment. See compliance readiness for how we handle the gap assessment and the evidence side.

Credentials

Who would be testing

A small team rather than a bench. The certifications are here because procurement asks for them; the research is a better indication of how we work.

GIAC

CompTIA

EC-Council

INE / eLearnSecurity

Questions from local clients

Do you actually come on site, or is this remote work with a Miami address on it?

Both, and the split is worth understanding before you buy. Internal network testing, wireless work, physical assessment and any social engineering that involves walking into a building need somebody in the room, and we cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach for that. External network, web application, API, cloud and mobile testing is remote by nature; nobody does it better by driving to your office. Where a firm two thousand miles away falls down is the on-site half, which is why their Miami page usually does not mention it.

We are a title company. Everyone keeps telling us we are a target.

They are right, and the mechanism is boring rather than exotic. South Florida closings move large sums on short notice between parties who have never met, coordinated over email. That is the ideal setup for business email compromise, and the attack rarely involves malware at all: somebody watches a mailbox for weeks, then sends wiring instructions at the right moment. What helps is mailbox security, out-of-band verification of any wire change, and testing whether your staff can be talked into skipping it. The FTC Safeguards Rule also applies to most title and mortgage businesses, which makes some of this mandatory rather than advisable.

What does the local industry mix actually change about testing?

Priorities, mostly. A logistics business around PortMiami cares about the systems that keep freight moving and about EDI links to partners it does not control. A private bank in Brickell cares about wire authorisation paths and about who can read whose accounts. A hospital group cares about the HIPAA Security Rule and about medical devices that fall over when scanned. Same methodology, different order of attack, and different things we agree not to touch.

Do you work with companies outside South Florida?

Yes, and a good share of our work is. Miami is where we are based and where we can be on site inside an hour; the remote services run anywhere in the United States. If you are outside the region and want internal or physical work, that is a travel conversation rather than a no.

How quickly can you start?

Scoping call within a day or two, and we are typically booking two to four weeks out for testing. If an audit date or a customer deadline is driving you, say so on the first call and we will tell you honestly whether we can hit it rather than taking the booking and hoping.

Want somebody in the building?

Tell us what you run and what is driving the date. We will come back with a scope, a fixed price, and the earliest week we can start.

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