Chicago and Illinois
Invadel runs fixed-price penetration testing for Chicago and Illinois companies, from the trading and prop firms of the Loop to the insurers of the suburbs, the health systems of the near north and west sides, and the software companies of Fulton Market. Senior New York testers, delivered remotely, on-site by arrangement.
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Case study · Insurance
Email + Voice Social Engineering
A targeted credential-phishing email impersonating the company SSO password-reset flow led 19 employees to submit their credentials.
Outcome. Gave the security team a realistic multi-channel picture of susceptibility and a roadmap for help-desk identity-verification procedures and targeted training for high-exposure roles.
200
Email targets
19
Credential entries
2-channel
Attack simulated
Why Invadel
Chicago companies ask us most often for internal network testing and red team exercises. Both are delivered remotely: internal tests through a small device we ship to your office, red team operations from the outside in, exactly as an attacker would work.
Prop trading firms, futures and options market participants, and insurers carry regulator, exchange, and client expectations that a generic test does not address. We scope to the systems those parties actually ask about.
Every engagement is fixed-scope and fixed-price, agreed in writing before we start. Remote delivery means no travel charge, and a Chicago client pays the same published price as a New York one.
Industries we serve
Chicago is a financial center, an insurance capital, a healthcare hub, and the logistics crossroads of the country, with a growing software economy in the West Loop, and each of those sectors is asked for a different kind of evidence.
Loop and River North firms protecting trading systems, market connectivity, and the internal networks that hold strategies and positions.
Carriers and brokers across the city and suburbs meeting state insurance data security expectations, SOC 2 reviews, and the questionnaires reinsurers and partners send.
Academic medical centers and community systems testing patient portals, clinical applications, and internal networks to HIPAA.
Distributors, manufacturers, and consumer brands securing warehouse and OT systems, supplier connections, and PCI DSS scope.
Fulton Market and West Loop product companies closing SOC 2 audits and enterprise security reviews to win larger customers.
Firms protecting privileged client data and answering client and insurer security questionnaires.
How we test each sector, with the frameworks and prices that apply: penetration testing by industry, including fintech, law firms, healthcare, SaaS, and manufacturing.
Services
A focused engagement for every layer of your environment, each one led by a certified tester and delivered with a report your team, board, and auditors can use.
Testing from an assumed foothold inside your network: Active Directory attack paths, lateral movement, and segmentation, from $6,000.
Objective-based attacks that prove the whole chain and test if your team detects and stops them, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, from $12,500.
Testing of your internet-facing perimeter, from exposed services and VPN gateways to mail and cloud edges, with a free retest, from $4,200.
Manual testing of your web application across the OWASP Top 10, business logic, and all user roles, with a free retest included, from $5,200.
REST, GraphQL, and SOAP testing for broken authorization, token flaws, and data exposure, with every endpoint in scope, from $4,000.
Configuration and exploitation testing across AWS, Azure, and GCP: identity, storage, network paths, workloads, and Kubernetes, from $6,800.
On the ground in Chicago
Chicago companies come to us for two engagements more than any other: internal network penetration tests and red team exercises. The first answers how far an attacker travels from one compromised workstation in a trading firm, an insurer, or a hospital toward the systems that matter. The second answers whether the security team notices. Both are delivered remotely, which removes the travel budget that used to make them expensive to buy from out of town.
Illinois adds two rules worth knowing. The Personal Information Protection Act requires reasonable security measures for residents’ personal information and sets the breach notification duty. The Biometric Information Privacy Act governs fingerprints, face geometry, and other biometric identifiers and carries a private right of action, which makes the systems that collect them, from time clocks to identity verification, a target worth testing deliberately.
We serve companies across Chicagoland and Illinois, including the Loop, the West Loop and Fulton Market, River North, Schaumburg, Naperville, Oak Brook, Deerfield, Northbrook, and Rosemont, and the rest of the state from the same team. Testing is delivered remotely from our New York office, with on-site work arranged when a scope needs a person in the building.
New York City HQ
Serving Chicago: remote, on-site by arrangement
The Loop · West Loop · Fulton Market · River North · Schaumburg · Naperville · Oak Brook · Deerfield · Northbrook · Rosemont
Also serving
Brooklyn · Queens · Long Island · New Jersey · Connecticut · Westchester County · Boston · Philadelphia · Washington, DC · Florida · Texas · Denver · Atlanta · Charlotte · California
FAQ
Common questions from Chicago teams scoping their first, or next, engagement.
Still have questions?The same fixed prices we publish for everyone: internal network testing from $6,000, external network testing from $4,200, web application testing from $5,200, and red team assessments from $12,500, each agreed in writing before work starts. Penetration tests include a free retest, and there is no travel charge for Chicago clients.
See the pricing pageWe ship a small testing device to your office, or connect over a VPN you provide, and work from that foothold exactly as an attacker who had compromised a workstation would: toward Active Directory, the segmentation between zones, and the systems that hold what matters. The device is returned or wiped at the end of the engagement.
Internal network penetration testingAn objective-based operation: we agree a goal, such as reaching a trading system or exporting a client list, and pursue it through phishing, external attack paths, and lateral movement while your security team defends. The report shows what worked, what was detected, and how long it took, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Teams that want to tune detections as the techniques run can choose a purple team assessment instead, with our operators and your defenders working side by side.
Red team assessmentYes. Time clocks, identity verification flows, and any application that stores biometric templates are scoped explicitly, because Illinois law gives individuals a private right of action when that data is mishandled. We test how the data is collected, stored, transmitted, and deleted, and report the findings in that frame.
Regularly. Insurers ask for evidence that maps to state insurance data security rules and SOC 2; trading and prop firms ask for internal network testing, red team exercises, and testing of the platforms that hold positions and strategies. Both receive an attestation letter written for the parties that asked.
Penetration testing for insurersScoping takes about a day, onboarding begins within 24 hours of a signed proposal, and testing typically starts within a week. Tell us your audit, renewal, or customer deadline and we plan the engagement around it.
Tell us what to test and see your fixed price. Fixed scope, free retest, and a reply within one business day.
