Lares Consulting
Denver-based offensive security boutique with a community-first red team culture. Home of PTES co-authors and the Continuous Red Team retainer.
- Categories
- Penetration testing, Security consulting and vCISO, Incident response, AI and LLM security
- Based in
- Denver, United States
- Founded
- 2008
- Size
- 51-200 staff
- Ownership
- Owned by Damovo
About Lares Consulting
Lares Consulting is a security firm that helps organisations protect their digital, physical, intellectual and financial assets. It provides assessment, testing and coaching services. Its clients include financial institutions, manufacturers, software companies, retailers, law firms, government bodies and energy utilities. The company was established in 2008 and has served over 600 customers worldwide. Lares offers manual adversarial testing. Senior operators apply tradecraft across the attack surface and turn evidence into decisions. The firm co-created the Penetration Testing Execution Standard. It also provides advisory services, including virtual CISO support and IT risk assessment. Its AI security work covers risk assessment, governance and testing of chatbots, agents and large language models.