Scoping Over Coffee, Not Contracts
We start with a real conversation about what keeps you up at night — the customer database, the payment flow, the one legacy server nobody wants to touch. Scope and price are fixed before any invoice appears.
Westerville, Ohio — by appointment
The Standing Security Desk For Companies Too Small To Hire One
Kryptelia gives small and mid-sized businesses the offensive testing, the honest audits, and the on-call breach response that a full-time security team would deliver — billed per engagement, not by headcount.
Findings you can actually fix, ranked by real risk
The same tester writes your report and your retest
Flat per-engagement price, agreed before we start
The method
How We Actually Work Through Your Environment
Security theatre is easy to sell and useless to own. Every Kryptelia engagement follows the same measured arc — reconnaissance, exploitation, evidence, and a plan you can hand to a developer on Monday morning.
Offensive Testing, Documented As We Go
Manual penetration testing paired with tooling — web apps, internal networks, cloud misconfigurations, phishing simulations. Every foothold is screenshotted and time-stamped so nothing reads as guesswork.
A Report Written For Humans
You get one plain-language executive summary and one technical appendix — each finding rated by exploitability and business impact, with the exact remediation steps and a reference link. No 200-page scanner dump.
A Free Retest Once You've Patched
Fixing the holes is the whole point. Within 30 days of your report we re-run the confirmed findings at no extra charge and update the status, so you close the loop instead of collecting to-do items.
Engagements & pricing
Fixed Scope. Fixed Price. Named In Advance.
Three ways in, priced for businesses that don't have a CISO on payroll. Larger estates and compliance-driven scopes are quoted after the scoping call.
External Pen Test
From $6,800 / engagement
- Internet-facing web apps & services
- Manual exploitation, not just a scan
- Executive + technical report
- Free 30-day retest
Full Security Audit
$9,400 / engagement
- External + internal network testing
- Cloud & identity configuration review
- Phishing simulation for your team
- Board-ready summary + roadmap
Incident Response Retainer
$2,350 / month
- Guaranteed response window when it hits
- Containment, forensics & recovery help
- A pre-agreed playbook for your stack
- Quarterly tabletop exercise included
Prices exclude Ohio sales tax where applicable. Multi-engagement and non-profit rates available — ask on the call.
Before you call
The Questions Every Owner Asks First
01
Isn't penetration testing only for big companies?
The opposite is true. Attackers automate their way through small businesses precisely because those businesses assume they're too minor to target. A single tested and patched flaw in your login or checkout is usually cheaper than one afternoon of downtime.
02
Will testing break my live systems?
We agree the rules of engagement up front — what's in scope, what's off-limits, and whether we test staging or production. Destructive checks are only ever run with your written sign-off, and we schedule around your busiest hours.
03
What do I actually get at the end?
A written report you own outright: a plain-language summary for your leadership, a technical appendix for whoever fixes it, each finding scored by real-world risk, plus a debrief call. You can hand it to auditors, insurers, or a new developer without translation.
04
How fast can you respond during an actual breach?
Retainer clients have a guaranteed response window written into their agreement, and a playbook we built together before anything went wrong. Not on a retainer? Call us anyway — we take on emergency incident work as capacity allows.
What we believe
Security Isn't A Product You Buy Once. It's A Habit We Rehearse With You Until The Bad Day Is Boring.
We test the way a real attacker would, we write the way a busy owner reads, and we stay on the line for the moment nobody plans for. No dashboards to babysit, no jargon to decode — just fewer ways in and a team that already knows your systems.
Start here
One Call Tells Us Both Whether We're A Fit
Talk to a tester
(614) 974-7277
86 E Lincoln St, Westerville, OH 43081
By appointment — book a call and we'll find a slot that works
Prefer email? contact@kryptelia.com
Field notes
The Kryptelia Dispatch
A short, plain-English note a couple of times a month — the breach that made the news, translated into what it actually means for a business your size, and the one setting worth checking this week.
Get the dispatch