BlackWall Security — Managed SOC Monitoring & Authorized Penetration Testing

The Core Difference

We built the platform we watch you with.

Most managed-security shops resell someone else's stack and configure a dashboard. BlackWall is different: the SOC platform that monitors your environment — Sentinel — and the offensive engine that tests it — KAORS — were designed and written in-house, from the detection logic to the reporting pipeline. When you ask how a detection works or why an alert fired, you're talking to the person who wrote it. That's the clearest competency signal we can give you: we don't just operate security tooling — we engineer it.

Sentinel SOC — built in-house KAORS offensive engine — built in-house No off-the-shelf resell

Services

Two disciplines. One partner.

Most firms either watch your network or attack it. BlackWall does both — and each side makes the other sharper.

Blue Team · Defense

BlackWall SOC

Continuous monitoring across four critical layers.

We watch the four places attacks actually land — your Microsoft 365 logins, your computers, your DNS traffic, and your network edge — and alert you the moment something looks wrong.

Microsoft 365 logins — account takeover, impossible travel, MFA turned off, mail-forwarding rules
Endpoints — malicious PowerShell, credential theft, new admin accounts, cleared logs
DNS — malware command-and-control, data tunneling, known-bad domains
Firewall / network — port scans, internet-exposed services, data exfiltration
Tamper-evident log retention & continuous SOC self-health checks
Real-time email alerts & plain-language reports — mapped to MITRE ATT&CK

Red Team · Offense

KAORS Penetration Testing

Scoped, fully authorized testing — with your written consent.

Scoped, fully authorized engagements that probe your environment the way a real attacker would — then hand you a clear, prioritized path to fixing what we find.

Automated reconnaissance — nmap, nikto, gobuster
CVE correlation with CVSS severity scoring
Controlled exploitation behind strict safety gates
Signed scope & written authorization, always
Polished PDF report with prioritized findings
Concrete remediation guidance, not jargon

How It Works

Protected in three steps.

No rip-and-replace projects. No weeks of professional services. Onboarding is designed to be hands-off for your team.

Scope & Sign

We define the engagement

A short scoping call, a signed authorization, and a clear statement of work. Every engagement — monitoring or testing — starts with explicit, written consent.

Deploy in Minutes

Run one installer

Your team runs a single installer per machine. The agent runs silently in the background, auto-starts on boot, and immediately begins forwarding events over HTTPS.

> blackwall-agent install --client=yourco ✓ done

We Take It From Here

Monitoring, alerts, reports

Real-time alerts the moment something matters, automated triage with step-by-step containment playbooks for high-confidence threats, and client-ready PDF reports — incident summaries and pentest findings alike.

The Deliverables

See what you actually get.

Not stock photos — these are real covers from our reporting pipeline, shown here with representative data. Every client receives documents like these.

BlackWall SOC incident report cover (representative example)

BLACKWALL SOC — incident report · generated automatically · representative example
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KAORS penetration test report cover (representative example)

KAORS — penetration test report · CVSS-scored findings · representative example
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Credentials & Approach

Competency you can inspect.

Blackwall's competency is demonstrated, not just asserted — every engagement includes real work product you can inspect before committing. The proof isn't a wall of logos. It's the platform, the reports, and the findings themselves.

The Platform

Engineered, not resold

The Sentinel SOC platform and the KAORS offensive engine were built in-house — detection logic, correlation, and reporting pipeline included. Competency shows in a system that works, not a certificate on a wall.

The Deliverables

See the real output first

Download an actual SOC incident report and a KAORS penetration-test report — the exact format you'd receive, with representative data. Judge the quality of the work before you spend a dollar.

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The Detections

Validated against real attacks

Detections are exercised against simulated adversary techniques using the open Atomic Red Team framework and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK — so for a given alert, we can show you the attack that triggers it.

In Practice

What an engagement surfaces.

Representative scenarios — illustrative of the findings and turnaround a small practice can expect from Blackwall's detection library and assessment workflow. Not specific client records; anonymized case studies will replace these as engagements complete.

Regional Dental Practice

7 findings identified · remediated in 12 days

Microsoft 365 accounts without enforced MFA
RDP exposed directly to the internet
Missing DMARC — domain spoofable

HIPAA-aligned7 findings · 12d

Regional Legal Practice

5 findings identified · remediated in 9 days

Legacy auth bypassing MFA on mailboxes
Local admin rights on staff endpoints
No tamper-evident logging in place

Confidentiality-critical5 findings · 9d

Regional Medical Practice

9 findings identified · remediated in 14 days

Inbox forwarding rule to an external address
Unpatched service with a known CVE
Shared credentials across workstations

PHI environment9 findings · 14d

Why BlackWall

Built differently, on purpose.

BlackWall was engineered from day one for the things most providers bolt on later.

True multi-tenant isolation

Every client gets a fully isolated database. Your security data never shares a table, a query, or a report with anyone else's. Zero cross-contamination, by architecture.

Authorized, in writing, always

Every engagement starts with explicit written authorization and a signed scope — targets, timing, and techniques agreed up front. Exploitation runs only against what you approve, behind strict safety gates.

Client-ready reporting

Polished PDF deliverables you can hand to leadership, auditors, or insurers — prioritized findings, plain-language impact, and concrete remediation steps.

Hands-off onboarding

One installer. No appliances, no network re-architecture, no agents fighting your endpoints. Most clients are streaming events within minutes of signing.

About

The person behind the wall.

Christian Chavez

Founder · Operator · Engineer

BlackWall Security is founded and run by Christian Chavez — the engineer who designed and built both the BlackWall SOC platform and the KAORS offensive security engine, and who operates them day to day.

That's deliberate. When you work with BlackWall, there's no account manager, no ticket queue, and no junior analyst between you and the person who actually monitors your network, runs your tests, and writes your reports. You get the practitioner — directly, and accountable.

The detections aren't theoretical. They're continuously exercised against simulated real-world attacks and mapped to MITRE ATT&CK — so the platform is validated by the same hands that build and run it.

Background

B.S. in Cybersecurity — Bellevue University
A.A.S., Systems & Network Administration — Iowa Western Community College

One operator, built for continuity

What happens when it's one person watching?

A fair question — and the honest answer is that your monitoring never depended on me being awake. BlackWall is engineered to run unattended and to fail loudly. A single accountable expert is backed by a system that watches around the clock and raises its hand the moment something isn't right.

Monitoring that never sleeps

Detection runs continuously in the background, 24/7 — automated correlation and real-time email alerts fire the moment something matters, whatever the hour.

A watchdog on the watchdog

An automated self-health check runs on a schedule and emails immediately if any component — database, logging, or dashboard — goes unhealthy. Silent failure isn't an option.

Recovery & response, documented

Tamper-evident log retention, encrypted backups that are verified to actually restore, and a written breach-response plan on file — so an incident meets a plan, not improvisation.

Compliance

Built for the frameworks you answer to.

Our testing and reporting map to the standards your business and your insurers require, so an engagement doubles as documented evidence for auditors and carriers. We help you meet these requirements and prove it — compliance itself remains your organization's responsibility.

PCI DSS 4.0.1

Card-payment security

Requirement 11.4 mandates human-led internal and external penetration testing at least annually. Our reports follow PTES and NIST SP 800-115 and are structured to meet it.

HIPAA Security Rule

Healthcare & PHI

Requires regular technical evaluation of the safeguards protecting electronic PHI. Our testing and findings support that evaluation for healthcare organizations and their business associates.

FTC Safeguards Rule · GLBA

CPAs, tax & insurance firms

Covers accountants, tax preparers, and insurance agencies — requiring a written security program with penetration testing and periodic vulnerability assessments. We deliver the testing and documentation it calls for.

Cyber-Insurance

Coverage & claims

Carriers increasingly require evidence of penetration testing, MFA, and patch management to issue policies and pay claims. Our reports provide the documentation underwriters ask for.

FAQ

Questions buyers actually ask.

Does BlackWall SOC replace our antivirus or firewall?

No — it complements them. Your antivirus blocks known malware; BlackWall SOC watches the bigger picture across four layers — your Microsoft 365 logins, your endpoints, your DNS traffic, and your network edge — catching account takeovers, privilege changes, malware command-and-control, and exposure your point tools miss. Keep your existing stack; we make it observable.

Who can see our security data?

Only you and BlackWall. Every client gets a fully isolated database — your events, alerts, and reports never share storage or queries with another client's. Data travels exclusively over encrypted HTTPS.

Is the penetration testing safe for production?

Engagements are scoped in writing before anything runs. Exploitation is gated behind explicit safety controls and only executed against targets you've authorized. You define what's in scope and out of scope — we never test beyond it.

What does it cost?

Engagements are scoped per environment — machine count for monitoring, target scope for testing. Request a consultation and you'll get a clear, fixed quote with no surprise line items.

Verify First

Prove the capability before you commit.

You shouldn't have to take a security claim on faith. Start with a scoped Tier 1 assessment — a fixed-scope, fully authorized review of your own systems that produces a real findings report on your environment, not a demo.

You see exactly how we work, what we surface, and how we report it — before signing on to anything ongoing. If the findings don't earn your confidence, there's nothing further to do.

Scoped · Authorized · Real findings Request a Tier 1 Assessment →

Get Started

See what an attacker sees.

Start with an external security check of your business — no access to your systems needed — and I'll send you a plain-English rundown of what's exposed to the internet (email spoofing gaps, leaked logins, open services, and more). Prefer to talk monitoring or a penetration test? Tell me below.

or email contact@blackwallsecurity.net · call (402) 819-9517 · Omaha, NE