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Cybersecurity Services for Packetlabs

Packetlabs is a CREST accredited and SOC 2 Type II attested penetration testing firm headquartered in Toronto, staffing every engagement with OSCP certified consultants and outsourcing none of its testing.

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TypeRegional VAR
HQToronto, Ontario
Focuspenetration testing, oscp certified consultants, application security testing, red team exercises, purple team and assumed breach exercises, social engineering, cloud and iot infrastructure testing, ot cybersecurity assessments
SizeRegional
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Company Profile

Packetlabs at a glance

People
50 to 99, per the CREST marketplace profile
Operates in
Toronto, Ontario (head office), Calgary, Alberta, San Francisco, California, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Verticals
education, finance, healthcare, lottery and gaming, manufacturing, policing, retail and ecommerce, technology and saas, utilities and energy
Attestations
CREST accredited member company, penetration testing, CREST AI Charter signatory, SOC 2 Type II

Compiled from public sources: https://www.packetlabs.net/, https://www.packetlabs.net/about-packetlabs/, https://marketplace.crest.org/packetlabs.

Industry Context

The Challenge for Regional Resellers

Policing, lottery and gaming, and utilities and energy all appear on the Packetlabs vertical list, which tells you who its testing has to satisfy. The firm is CREST accredited and a signatory to the CREST AI Charter, holds a SOC 2 Type II attestation, staffs engagements only with OSCP certified consultants, and outsources none of the testing. Between 50 and 99 people cover offices in Toronto, Calgary, San Francisco and Sydney. It sells no tools and no software

Independence is the product, and it is also the ceiling. Every engagement consumes a named consultant, so capacity is a headcount question with no software shortcut. Retainers smooth the calendar. They do not create consultants. Worse, the work generates demand Packetlabs has chosen not to serve. A red team exercise or an operational technology assessment ends in a list of things to fix, and the firm that found them sells nothing that fixes them. Customers take that list elsewhere, which puts a third party between Packetlabs and the follow through. Canadian federal and Quebec clients add a further condition, that the report and the remediation be handled in French

CWS can be the remediation arm that never shows up as one. Our engineers work under the Packetlabs brand across the United States and Canada, to a single delivery standard, and in French where a Quebec or Canadian federal client requires it. Corova runs the scoping, quoting and tracking, so a remediation package can be priced beside the test report instead of weeks after it. Packetlabs stays a pure testing firm. The customer stops shopping for the fix

How CWS Helps

Relevant CWS Services for Packetlabs

Based on Packetlabs's specializations, the following CWS service lines align with their cybersecurity practice.

Threat Services
Positioned at the Point of Decision

Why This Matters for Packetlabs

The credibility of a testing firm comes from having nothing to sell once the report lands. That credibility is expensive, because every finding hands a customer a reason to go and talk to somebody else. Delivering the fix through a partner working under the Packetlabs name keeps the independence and the customer at the same time

For Packetlabs Employees

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