Penetration Testing in Miami, FL
Miami has become the financial and logistics gateway between the United States and Latin America: the hedge funds, trading firms and asset managers that moved to Brickell since 2020, led by Citadel and Citadel Securities, and the banks of downtown and Coral Gables; the fintech, payments and digital-asset companies of Brickell and Wynwood; the three largest cruise groups in the world, Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean Group and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, all headquartered in Miami-Dade; the hospitality economy of Miami Beach and Brickell; Jackson Health System, Baptist Health South Florida, UHealth and Nicklaus Children's; PortMiami and Miami International Airport, the number-one US airport for international freight, with Ryder System and the freight forwarders of Doral behind them; the Latin American regional offices of Visa, Mastercard and dozens of other multinationals; the Spanish-language media hubs of Telemundo and TelevisaUnivision; and the universities of Coral Gables and West Miami-Dade. HackersHub runs offensive security engagements scoped to the threat model these organisations actually face: supply-chain and managed-service-provider compromise, business-email compromise and wire fraud against trading and treasury desks, ransomware against hospitals, hotels and cruise operations, and the Florida Information Protection Act, Florida Digital Bill of Rights, NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500, PCI DSS, HIPAA and SOC 2 evidence that regulators, sponsor banks, auditors and institutional customers now expect.
The Miami and South Florida threat landscape
Miami's defining incident reached far beyond the city. On 2 July 2021 the REvil ransomware group pushed ransomware through the on-premises VSA remote-monitoring product of Kaseya, a Miami-headquartered IT-management vendor, encrypting the downstream customers of managed service providers around the world; Kaseya said fewer than 60 of its direct customers and fewer than 1,500 downstream businesses were affected, and the attackers demanded USD 70 million for a universal decryptor. The case made managed-service-provider and software-supply-chain compromise the primary risk model for every small and mid-sized business in South Florida that outsources its IT. The cruise industry, headquartered here, has been through its own cycle: Carnival Corporation disclosed a 2019 email-account compromise affecting about 180,000 employees and guests, settled with 45 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia in 2022 for USD 1.25 million, and separately paid a USD 5 million penalty to the New York Department of Financial Services for four incidents, two of them ransomware, that the regulator attributed to missing multi-factor authentication and other failures under 23 NYCRR Part 500. Brickell's trading firms, hedge funds and family offices are a natural target for business-email compromise and wire fraud, and the fintech, payments and digital-asset companies that followed them face sponsor-bank due diligence, state money-transmitter examinations and, for those serving New York customers, the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation with its annual penetration-testing requirement in section 500.5. Hospital systems in Miami-Dade carry the clinical-ransomware exposure that has defined US healthcare since 2020, in a county where a single public system serves much of the population. PortMiami terminals and the cruise piers are MTSA-regulated facilities now under the Coast Guard's maritime cybersecurity rule, and cruise vessels themselves fall under the IMO's maritime cyber risk management resolution. Florida regulates the result through the Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (Fla. Stat. 501.171), which requires every covered entity to take reasonable measures to protect personal information, to notify affected residents within 30 days of determining a breach and to notify the Department of Legal Affairs when 500 or more Floridians are affected; through the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (in force since 1 July 2024), which imposes comprehensive privacy duties on the largest technology and advertising-driven controllers and consent requirements for sensitive data on every business; and through a 2022 statute that bars state agencies and local governments from paying ransoms. Engagements in Miami routinely uncover remote-monitoring and management tools with standing administrative access across dozens of client networks, treasury and trade-settlement workflows that confirm payment-instruction changes by email alone, hotel property-management and point-of-sale segments reachable from guest Wi-Fi, shipboard and shoreside networks bridged through satellite links, and identity tenants in which regional Latin American subsidiaries inherit far more access than their risk profile warrants.
Need a penetration test in Miami?
Written scope, named OSCP-certified testers, report within a week of the last testing day.
Industries we routinely engage in Miami
Repeatable threat patterns by sector, drawn from engagement data rather than vendor marketing.
Hedge funds, trading & asset management
Hedge funds, market makers, family offices, private-equity firms and asset managers in Brickell, downtown and Coral Gables. External and internal penetration tests, identity and privileged-access assessments, trading and order-management platform testing, and red team operations scoped against business-email compromise and wire-fraud tradecraft. Evidence mapped to SEC Regulation S-P (amended May 2024), the GLBA Safeguards Rule, SOC 2 and the due-diligence questionnaires institutional allocators now send.
Fintech, payments & digital assets
Neobanks, payment processors, remittance and cross-border platforms serving Latin America, lending platforms and digital-asset exchanges and custodians in Brickell and Wynwood. Manual web-application, mobile and API penetration tests, cloud-configuration and key-management review, and reporting mapped to NYDFS 23 NYCRR 500 (including the 500.5 annual penetration test) for New York-licensed entities, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation's money-transmitter requirements, PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4, SOC 2 and the evidence sponsor banks demand. Our fintech penetration testing guide at /insights/fintech-penetration-testing/ covers the attack surface in depth.
Cruise lines & maritime
The cruise groups headquartered in Miami-Dade, their brands and the shipboard and shoreside technology vendors serving them. Reservation, loyalty and guest-platform testing, shoreside-to-ship connectivity and satellite-link segmentation review, shipboard OT and guest-network separation testing under passive-first rules, and evidence for the Coast Guard's Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System rule (33 CFR Part 101 Subpart F), the IMO Resolution MSC.428(98) on maritime cyber risk management in the safety management system, PCI DSS v4.0.1 and NYDFS Part 500 where insurance or licensed entities are involved.
Hospitality, hotels & entertainment
Hotel groups and resorts in Miami Beach, Brickell and Downtown, restaurant groups, entertainment venues and the booking and property-management vendors behind them. Property-management, point-of-sale and guest Wi-Fi segmentation testing, booking-engine and loyalty API pentests, and reporting mapped to PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4 and the Florida Information Protection Act.
Hospital systems & healthcare
Public and private hospital systems across Miami-Dade, academic medicine in the Civic Center health district, children's and specialty hospitals and the health-tech vendors serving them. HIPAA Security Rule evaluation evidence (45 CFR 164.308(a)(8)), clinical-network and medical-device segmentation review, identity-led methodology and breach readiness mapped to Fla. Stat. 501.171. Our HIPAA penetration testing guide at /insights/hipaa-penetration-testing/ covers scope and cadence.
Logistics, aviation & Latin American regional headquarters
Freight forwarders, air-cargo handlers and logistics headquarters around Miami International Airport and Doral, PortMiami terminal operators, and the Latin American regional offices of global technology, payments and consumer brands. Cargo and customs integration testing, identity assessments spanning US and Latin American subsidiaries, external and internal penetration tests, and evidence mapped to SOC 2, C-TPAT supply-chain security criteria and the Coast Guard maritime cybersecurity rule.
Compliance frameworks we report against
Engagements for Miami organisations regularly feed into Florida, New York, federal and customer-driven regulatory reporting. Deliverables include a penetration testing statement, executive summary, technical report with proof-of-concept, and a remediation tracker, formatted to satisfy the evidence requirements of each framework below without additional documentation.
- Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (Fla. Stat. 501.171): reasonable measures to protect personal information, notice to affected residents within 30 days, notice to the Department of Legal Affairs for breaches affecting 500 or more Floridians, and enforcement under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act
- Florida Digital Bill of Rights (Fla. Stat. 501.701 et seq., in force 1 July 2024): comprehensive privacy duties for controllers above USD 1 billion in revenue that meet the technology or advertising criteria, and consent requirements for the sale of sensitive data applying to all businesses
- Fla. Stat. 282.3186 prohibition on ransom payments by state agencies and local governments (2022)
- NYDFS 23 NYCRR Part 500 for New York-licensed banks, insurers, money transmitters and virtual-currency businesses, including the 500.5 annual penetration test and the 500.17 notification duties
- Florida Office of Financial Regulation requirements for money transmitters and payment-instrument sellers (Fla. Stat. chapter 560) and FinCEN Bank Secrecy Act obligations
- GLBA Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314) and SEC Regulation S-P (amended May 2024) for banks, advisers, funds and broker-dealers
- PCI DSS v4.0.1 Requirement 11.4 penetration testing for hospitality, cruise, retail and payment environments
- HIPAA Security Rule 45 CFR 164.308(a)(8) technical evaluation
- US Coast Guard Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System rule, 33 CFR Part 101 Subpart F (in force 16 July 2025; cybersecurity plan due 16 July 2027), the Maritime Transportation Security Act and IMO Resolution MSC.428(98) for vessels
- SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules (Regulation S-K Item 106 and Form 8-K Item 1.05) for the listed cruise, logistics and consumer headquarters of the metro
- SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria CC7.1 / CC7.4
- OWASP WSTG, OWASP MASVS v2 and OWASP LLM Top 10 2025 for web, mobile and AI testing; NIST SP 800-115 technical security testing
Services delivered for Miami engagements
Same global service catalogue, scoped to the Florida and cross-border regulatory context.
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Why Miami organisations choose HackersHub
HackersHub is an Amsterdam-headquartered practitioner firm with no US office, and we model Miami engagements honestly around that. External, web-application, mobile, API and cloud testing is delivered remotely from the Netherlands, with devices shipped to our Amsterdam lab where the scope calls for it; internal network, Active Directory, wireless, shipboard, property and physical assessments are delivered on site in Miami-Dade, Broward and at PortMiami by travelling testers. Scoping calls, status updates and report walkthroughs are scheduled on US Eastern business hours. Every engagement is led by named OSCP-, OSWE- or CREST-certified offensive security professionals, with Michael van Mameren (OSCP) acting as engagement lead, and reports are written directly against FIPA, NYDFS Part 500, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 and SEC evidence categories. For companies that run Latin American operations from Miami, we test across US and regional subsidiaries in one engagement and report in English with Spanish or Portuguese executive summaries on request. Senior-level scoping calls happen within one business day.
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