Sikich Wins 2024 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award for Pentesting Solutions

CHICAGO – October 10, 2024 – Sikich, a Chicago-based leading global technology-enabled professional services company, today announced it has been named the “2024 Pentesting Solution Provider of the Year” in the eighth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. This prestigious annual program, produced by CyberSecurity Breakthrough, an independent organization dedicated to recognizing top companies and innovations in the information security industry, highlights excellence across the global cybersecurity landscape.

Sikich performs internal, external and cloud/hybrid penetration testing to systematically analyze client environments for security weaknesses and potential exploitation impacts. These scalable tests meet the needs of organizations, and the Sikich Cybersecurity team offers a range of assessments that can be integrated into a test or provided as standalone services. The cybersecurity practice also assists clients with information security consulting, digital forensics, incident response, fraud management, risk mitigation, and vulnerability detection and prevention. Testing includes several phases: Planning, Reconnaissance, Vulnerability Analysis, Exploitation, and Reporting.

“Our testing is designed to uncover threats to your organization resulting from information disclosure, employee misuse and ineffective management of user credentials. The results are clear and irrefutable, exposing how attackers can get into systems and what they can access,” said Ken Squires, principal at Sikich. “We’re thrilled to accept ‘Pentesting Solution Provider of the Year’ from CyberSecurity Breakthrough and take it as evidence of our commitment to our strategic vision for the future and a reflection of the strength of our team members who provide a comprehensive and diverse range of services.”

The mission of the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of information security categories, including Cloud Security, Threat Intelligence, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Application Security, Identity Management and many more. This year’s program attracted thousands of nominations from over 20 different countries throughout the world.

“Sikich’s pentests use a proven methodology that meets or exceeds industry standards to help understand where the weak points in a company’s cybersecurity efforts lie. In the IT industry, nearly 20 new vulnerabilities caused by a variety of maliciously used or compromised technologies are discovered every single day,” said Steve Johansson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “A network infrastructure test tells how well your network can prevent intrusions. Splatt’s flexible methodology provides high-value testing without sacrificing the performance or availability of your systems. By demonstrating the impact of any security vulnerabilities, Splatt takes security from a theoretical level to a practical one.”

About Sikich

Sikich is a Chicago-based global company specializing in technology-enabled professional services. With more than 1,900 employees, Sikich draws on a diverse portfolio of technology solutions to deliver transformative digital strategies. From corporations and not-for-profits to state and local governments and federal agencies, Sikich clients utilize a broad spectrum of services and products to help them improve performance and achieve long-term, strategic goals.

Sikich practices in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Sikich CPA LLC is a licensed CPA firm that provides audit and attest services to its clients, and Sikich LLC and its subsidiaries provide tax and business advisory services to its clients. Sikich CPA LLC has a contractual arrangement with Sikich LLC under which Sikich LLC supports Sikich CPA LLC’s performance of its professional services. Sikich LLC and its subsidiaries are not licensed CPA firms.

“Sikich” is the brand name under which Sikich CPA LLC and Sikich LLC provide professional services. The entities under the Sikich brand are independently owned and are not liable for the services provided by any other entity providing services under the Sikich brand. The use of the terms “our company”, “we” and “us” and other similar terms denote the alternative practice structure of Sikich CPA LLC and Sikich LLC. 

About CyberSecurity Breakthrough

Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in information security and cybersecurity technology companies, products and people. The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough information security companies and products in categories including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Web and Email Security, UTM, Firewall and more. For more information visit CyberSecurityBreakthrough.com.

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