Virtue Security is a boutique cybersecurity firm focused exclusively on penetration testing. It helps organizations identify exploitable weaknesses across applications, APIs, networks, and cloud environments through in-depth, expert-led assessments designed to surface issues that standardized checklists and automated scans often miss.
The company positions its work around tailored scoping, hands-on testing, actionable reporting, and follow-up retesting. Virtue Security emphasizes creative, technically rigorous assessments for technology-driven organizations that need stronger assurance around critical digital assets, customer-facing platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Virtue Security’s capabilities center on manual, senior-led penetration testing supported by disciplined scoping and clear remediation guidance. Its approach is built to evaluate real-world attack paths, business logic weaknesses, implementation flaws, and cloud-specific exposures rather than relying on generic vulnerability findings alone.
Beyond point-in-time engagements, Virtue Security also supports continuous testing workflows through its proprietary platform model. The company pairs expert analysis with recurring visibility, retesting, and vulnerability tracking, and it works across modern environments that include web, mobile, API, network, and public cloud footprints.
Products and Services
- Application Penetration Testing: Manual penetration testing for web, mobile, thick-client, and other business applications, tailored to the client’s technology stack and attack surface.
- API Penetration Testing: Targeted API security assessments for REST, SOAP, RPC, and related architectures, focused on issues such as broken authentication, access control flaws, information disclosure, and insecure object handling.
- AWS Penetration Testing: AWS-specific penetration testing for cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure, with attention to service interactions, misconfigurations, and weaknesses across assets such as S3, RDS, Lambda, and API services.
- Network Penetration Testing: Internal and external network assessments designed to uncover exploitable weaknesses in infrastructure, exposed services, and access pathways.
- Cloud Penetration Testing: Security testing for cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, covering cloud-based applications, storage, and supporting infrastructure.
- PurpleLeaf: A service-backed continuous penetration testing platform that combines ongoing manual testing with network and cloud vulnerability scanning, attack-surface visibility, monthly reporting, and on-demand retesting.
Target Customers
Virtue Security primarily targets technology-driven enterprises that depend on secure applications and cloud environments to run their business. Its services are well suited to SaaS providers, cloud-first companies, and organizations with customer-facing web, mobile, and API-based platforms, as well as businesses that need ongoing assurance around internal and external infrastructure.
The company also shows strong alignment with regulated and high-trust sectors such as fintech and healthcare, and it highlights experience supporting AI-enabled applications. Organizations seeking expert-led testing, audit-ready reporting, and a more specialized alternative to broad security generalists are a strong fit for Virtue Security.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: Virtue Security has marketplace presence through its PurpleLeaf SaaS offering on AWS Marketplace, giving customers a direct procurement path for continuous penetration testing.
- Amazon Web Services (AWS): Virtue Security identifies itself as an AWS partner and supports AWS-focused assessment scoping for cloud assets and services within customer environments.
Key People
- Elliott Frantz: Founder & CEO
- Thomas Badgett: Managing Partner
- Nick Coblentz: Senior Lead Penetration Tester
Key Facts
- Headquarters: New York, New York, United States
- Employees: 11-50
- Annual Revenue: Undisclosed
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
