Founded By: Grant McCracken
You know how setting up, purchasing, and executing security testing is often confusing, cumbersome, slow, time-consuming, and expensive? Well, DarkHorse is making it easy for organizations to quickly self-service on-demand proactive security testing (including penetration testing) how and when they need it. Putting businesses back in control of what they need, while removing unnecessary bloat and noise. Get the security testing you need, when you need it, how you need it, at a price that won't blow your budget.
The end state is a comprehensive, one-stop platform for organizations to be able to get access to a wide array of proactive security tooling quickly, easily, and affordably. Particularly, this platform will be focused on enabling SMBs to become enterprise-level secure, without the enterprise price tag. We feel the SMB market is underserved, and as a result, is more vulnerable than they should be. We hope to make it easier for them to become more secure.
DarkHorse exists to make proactive cybersecurity more accessible to organizations of all sizes and budgets.
We feel that in the market today, too many organizations are left behind by hard-to-use, slow, and expensive security solutions – including pentesting, vulnerability assessments, bug bounties, and more.
DarkHorse aims to be the antidote to that. Providing just what organizations need, and nothing they don’t.
We’ve removed the fluff, noise, and nonsense, and have built a platform that is focused on being the simplest, most functional offering on the market for PTaaS (penetration testing as a service), vulnerability assessments, bug bounties, vulnerability disclosure programs, and more.
The end result of all this, should we be successful, is that more organizations will become more secure in ways they weren’t previously able to. Creating a safer and more secure world for everyone along the way.
There are a few main competitors in the space, that generally fall into one of three buckets:
1. Consultancies (big four, boutiques, etc).
In short, we're faster (to launch, as well as getting results), platform-based (where most consultancies don't offer a platform at all), easier-to-use, and more affordable than slow-moving, expensive consultancies.
2. Crowdsourced security platforms (hackerone, bugcrowd, synack, cobalt, et al).
These platforms are much closer to our offering than consultancies, and only make up a small portion of the pentesting market. Still, we believe we're differentiated on a couple points: speed, ease-of-use, and cost. By eliminating the bloat found in these organizations and empowering clients to self-serve, we're able to move much more quickly than these orgs. Additionally, through eliminating those costs, we're also able to offer improved services for less cost.
3. Hybrids - where they have a platform, but don't use the crowd (Coalfire, NetSPI, etc).
Once more, they have many of the issues of a consultancy, but just with a platform on top. They're still slow, they're still expensive, and they still have a ton of bloat. DarkHorse is focused on making things as simple as possible - saving time, money, effort, and your sanity along the way.
Funding Stage: Bootstrapping/Organic
Gross Revenue: Pre-Revenue
