TCG Red Team · authorized engagements only
Find the holes before they do.
Authorized pentesting and offensive security assessments for small businesses in Indiana and remote nationwide. External and internal scope, web-app testing, infrastructure review, and social engineering with written consent. You get a report you can hand to your insurance carrier, your compliance team, or the next IT contractor — written in plain English with technical evidence attached.
Operated by Gary Amick · CompTIA Security+ · CCNA · Kali / Nmap / Burp / Wireshark workbench · signed scope, signed report, signed cleanup.
⚠ Authorization is mandatory. No engagement begins without a signed Rules of Engagement document defining IP ranges, hostnames, time windows, exclusions, and emergency-stop procedure. Anything outside that scope stays untouched.
What an engagement covers
Every engagement is scoped in writing before any tool runs. You sign the scope. I work the scope. Anything outside scope stays untouched. There is no exploration, no "while I was in there I noticed…" surprises — if I find a critical issue beyond scope, it goes in the out-of-scope appendix as a finding, not as live testing.
ExternalExternal / perimeter assessment
What an attacker on the internet sees. Port scan, service fingerprint, TLS posture, exposed admin panels, default credentials, public S3 buckets, GitHub-leaked secrets, employee email exposure check.
External details →
Web appWeb application testing
OWASP Top 10 walkthrough on customer-facing sites: injection, broken auth, exposed admin, IDOR, CSRF, XSS, file upload, business-logic abuse. Manual testing on top of Burp Suite, with proof-of-concept evidence preserved.
Web app details →
InternalInternal / assumed-breach
Drop a small box on your LAN (with your permission) for an "assumed-breach" walk: lateral movement potential, password-spray exposure, SMB shares, AD misconfigurations, printer admin, IoT devices, camera access from unsegmented Wi-Fi.
Internal details →
WirelessWireless & rogue-AP review
Wi-Fi crypto strength (WPA2/WPA3), guest-network leakage, hidden SSIDs, rogue AP detection, EAP misconfigurations. Walk the building. Report includes signal heatmap of in-scope coverage.
Wireless details →
PhishingSocial engineering with consent
Optional and only with written authorization from the business owner: simulated phishing emails, vishing scripts, badge / tailgating attempt at a single physical entry. Captures click-through and credential-submission rates without ever capturing the actual credential.
Phishing details →
CamerasSecurity-camera adversarial review
For businesses with existing camera systems: test default credentials, RTSP exposure, mobile-app authentication, NVR firmware CVEs, retention claims vs. reality. The same tests an attacker who wants to disable your cameras would run.
Camera review details →
Methodology & ethics
Every engagement runs the same loop. The deliverable is a report you actually understand — executive summary, technical findings ranked by severity, fix recommendations, evidence appendix. Nothing is dropped on you in jargon.
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Scope & written authorization
You and I sign a Rules of Engagement document defining IP ranges, hostnames, time windows, exclusions, and emergency-stop procedure. Nothing runs without it.
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Reconnaissance
Open-source reconnaissance only at this stage. Public DNS, certificate transparency logs, leaked-credential databases, employee names from your public site. Nothing intrusive.
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Active testing
Per the scope. Each finding is captured as it happens with timestamp, command, output, and severity. I don't pivot beyond scope without re-authorizing in writing.
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Verification & cleanup
Every finding is verified twice. Anything I introduced (tools, accounts, persistence artifacts) is removed and the cleanup is documented. You get a signed cleanup attestation.
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Report & debrief
Written report with executive summary (one page), technical findings (ranked, with fix steps), and evidence appendix. Live debrief call with your team to answer questions. You keep the report — it's yours, not licensed back to a portal.
Who this is for
Healthcare
Dental, orthodontics, family practice
HIPAA risk-assessment pentesting. Patient-data exposure paths. Workstation-locked-on-leave verification. Camera privacy zoning.
Professional
Law firms, accountants, real estate
Client-confidentiality-aware testing. File-server exposure. Document-management portals. Client-portal auth. Lost-laptop incident playbook validation.
Retail / SMB
Storefronts with POS + Wi-Fi
POS / cardholder-data segmentation. Guest-Wi-Fi leakage. Vendor-account hygiene. Pre-PCI-attestation gap analysis.
Multi-site
Franchises, multi-location operators
Same-test-every-site rollouts. Comparable scoring across locations. Findings rolled up to a multi-site dashboard for the operator.
What this is not
- Not unauthorized. Every engagement requires written authorization with named ranges, hostnames, and time windows. No "spec work," no surprise tests.
- Not destructive. Default posture is read-only verification. Active exploitation only when the scope explicitly allows it and a rollback path is documented.
- Not a vulnerability scan dressed up. Manual testing on top of automated tooling. A scanner finds 200 medium-severity items most of which are noise; I file 6-15 actionable findings ranked by what your business actually loses if exploited.
- Not licensed-back-to-a-portal. The report is yours. Plain PDF. Nothing locked behind a SaaS login.
- Not a substitute for a Big 4 audit. If your insurer or regulator requires a specific framework attestation (SOC 2, HITRUST, etc.), I'll tell you up-front and suggest a partner. TCG Red Team is small-business-scoped.
Pricing
Most small-business engagements are flat-priced after the scoping call. Hourly billing only when the scope is too open-ended to fix-price — and in that case I tell you up front.
From $1,200
External-only assessment
One internet-facing site or small range. Reconnaissance, web testing, perimeter posture. Report + debrief.
- Single domain or /27 range
- 1 week elapsed time
- Executive + technical report
From $2,800
External + internal combined
Most-popular small-business package. External perimeter + assumed-breach internal walk.
- External + internal scope
- 2 weeks elapsed time
- On-site visit included
- Live remediation debrief
$95/hr
Hourly · 24/7 incident
Active compromise, ransomware, breach response. TCG Solutions' incident-response rate.
- Phone answered 24/7
- Containment first
- Forensic imaging included
$0
Verified nonprofit
501(c)(3) within service area. Code TCG26FREE. Hardware not included.
- External-only assessment
- Report still yours
- Reasonable scope