What real operations look like in practice.
These are representative, sanitized examples of the kinds of problems Ingress Labs is brought in to solve. Details are adjusted to protect clients, but the attack paths and fixes are real.
Financial Services • Physical & Social Engineering
Regional Bank: Physical & Social Ingress in 24 Minutes
Org size: 1–5k employees
Demonstrated on-prem workstation access in under 24 minutes from arrival, identifying weak badge verification and visitor logging practices.
Outcome: Demonstrated lobby-to-workstation access in under 24 minutes from first entry, without challenge from staff.
Crypto / DeFi • Crypto OPSEC
DeFi Startup: Wallet Ops & Founder OPSEC Hardening
Org size: 10–50 employees
Reviewed key management, founder devices, and travel patterns to close realistic routes to catastrophic loss.
Outcome: Redesigned wallet architecture and signer distribution to reduce single points of failure.
Healthcare • Wireless & Human
Healthcare Group: Wireless Pivot & Phishing Campaign
Org size: 5–10k employees
Combined guest Wi-Fi abuse and targeted phishing to show cross-network risks to clinical systems without disruption.
Outcome: Exposed configuration gaps that allowed limited pivot potential from guest Wi-Fi toward internal services.
SaaS / Technology • Identity & Cloud
SaaS Team: Identity Drift → Cloud Admin Path
Org size: 50–250 employees
Simulated an attacker path from a single phished account into privileged cloud actions, highlighting over-permissioned roles and weak session controls.
Outcome: Eliminated multiple high-risk privilege pathways by tightening role scopes and enforcing least-privilege defaults.
Manufacturing • Physical & Network Segmentation
Manufacturer: Plant Visitor Access, Guest Wi-Fi, and Human Controls
Org size: 250–1k employees
Demonstrated how visitor processes and shared networks can create pivot opportunities toward operational and business systems—without touching OT safety-critical controls.
Outcome: Closed multiple low-friction access paths by tightening visitor processes and badge verification routines.
Professional Services • Partner Augmentation
Security Consultancy: Red Team Overflow and Silent Partner Support
Org size: 10–200 consultants
Provided discreet offensive testing capacity for a consultancy with tight timelines, delivering white-labeled findings and engineer-ready evidence.
Outcome: Enabled the consultancy to meet delivery timelines without sacrificing depth or quality of offensive validation.
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Quick links for internal teams reviewing scope, outcomes, and remediation patterns.
Rooted in Northeast Alabama, Applicable Everywhere
Many of our real-world operations are conducted for organizations in and around Dekalb County and northeast Alabama — regional banks, healthcare groups, SaaS teams, and crypto projects that operate out of Fort Payne, Huntsville, and neighboring cities.
Even when a case study is anonymized and generalized, the attack paths, timing, and remediation patterns are directly informed by work in this region. We travel for on-site work across Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia, with most clients located within about 200 miles of Fort Payne. You can learn more about our regional footprint on the local cybersecurity in Fort Payne, Alabama page.