Solving cybersecurity problems through engineering and expertise: Praetorian

In the digital world we live in, cybersecurity is vital because digital assets are valuable and vulnerable. The risk of cyber-attacks is constantly increasing and for companies and institutions it is no longer a question of “if” it will happen but rather “when”. Globally, there are various companies providing excellent cybersecurity solutions, among them, Praetorian stands out. Praetorian is a cybersecurity solutions company whose mission is to make the digital world safer and more secure. Through expertise and engineering, Praetorian helps today's leading organizations solve complex cybersecurity problems across critical enterprise assets and product portfolios. From the Cloud to IoT, the company is bringing together the world's security expertise to solve the cybersecurity problem and secure the next-wave innovation.

Cloud Security Experts

Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your systems and data in the cloud. Addressing security in a public cloud environment is different than your on-premises data centers. When you move systems and data to the cloud, security responsibilities become shared between your organization and the cloud service provider. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), are responsible for securing the underlying infrastructure that supports the cloud, while your organization is responsible for anything that you put in the cloud or connect to the cloud. Praetorian’s cloud security assessment and advisory services are designed to help your organization address the shared security responsibilities that are associated with operating in a public cloud environment. The company’s engineers help to make sure that you have instituted and are maintaining adequate preventative protections so that you can know your data and systems are secure, see the current state of your security, find out immediately if anything unusual occurs, and quickly respond to unexpected events.

Product Security Experts

Between project deadlines and user demand for new features, security is generally not the highest priority for product development teams. Praetorian helps product teams focus on innovation by solving their complex security challenges. The value it provides stems directly from its engineering culture. The vast majority of Praetorians come from a computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, or physics background and many of them were software engineers prior to moving into security. Because of this it understands modern software development paradigms that most 'consultants' simply cannot. From proprietary methodologies and toolsets, you'll find that Praetorian has the depth of technical knowledge that outflanks any of its competitors.

IoT Security Experts

As engineers at its core, the team at Praetorian is excited to work with customers and partners who see security as an enabler of next-wave innovation and a requisite for new technologies to meet their full market potential. The company’s security engineers provide end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) product security evaluations and certifications that help organizations successfully balance risk with time-to-market pressures. Praetorian’s solutions provide coverage across technological domains, including embedded devices, firmware, wireless communications protocols, web and mobile applications, cloud services and APIs, and back-end network infrastructure. s an active contributor to OWASP ASVS, its  team was the first to introduce the embedded device controls category and test cases for Internet of Things security testing in version 3.1.As part of Praetorian’s  professional security evaluation, and depending on the level of rigor, it will employ a variety of techniques to uncover unknown vulnerabilities.

Blockchain Security Experts

Praetorian takes a multi-layered approach to Web3 security. The core component is a methodical review of the smart contracts’ source code. Its engineers possess the necessary expertise to comprehensively identify vulnerabilities in domain-specific languages such as Solidity and Vyper. A thorough code review that combines manual and automated techniques can surface vulnerabilities related to reentrancy, price manipulation, paths to unprotected token and value transfers, and authorization issues. During this step, it also assesses the resilience of a client’s smart contracts against transaction ordering attacks from often unexpected threat actors such as MEV bots or malicious miners/validators. These attackers will front-run externally profitable transactions and manipulate block properties such as the block timestamp in order to influence the conditions of a transaction in their favor (e.g. lottery/random value manipulation).Throughout a smart contract engagement, Praetorian’s domain experts use industry-standard static analysis tools in conjunction with their thorough manual source code review. After identifying one or more potential vulnerabilities, Praetorian will simulate attacks in a local fork/simulated environment to determine the real-world impact without disrupting the customer’s business operations.

Meet the leader behind the success of Praetorian

As the Founder and CEO of Praetorian, Nathan Sportsman is responsible for championing the vision, maintaining the culture, and setting the direction of the company. Prior to bringing in professional management to help run the company, Nathan managed the day-to-day operations of the firm from its 2010 beginnings as a bootstrapped start-up to its current YoY hyper-growth. Since Praetorian’s founding, Nathan has successfully instilled a “customer first” mentality that has become part of the DNA of the company, which has led to unprecedented customer satisfaction reviews as reflected in a historical net promoter score of 92%. This reputation for delivering value to the customer has resulted in a three-year growth rate of 214%. Under Nathan’s leadership, the company has earned national recognition on the Inc. 5000 list 8 times in a row, the Inc. Best Work Places, the Cybersecurity 500, CIO Top 20, and locally on Austin’s “Fastest 50” growing firms.

“As a collective of highly technical engineers and developers offering deep security expertise, Praetorian solves the toughest challenges faced by today’s leading organizations across an ever-evolving digital threat landscape.”