About
Senior practitioners. Real evidence. No agenda.
HackingByte exists to close the gap between a pen test, a compliance programme, and a board decision — with one senior team and one reporting model.
- Senior-led delivery.
- Vendor-independent.
- Evidence-driven reporting.
About HackingByte.
About HackingByte — a founder-led cybersecurity company.
HackingByte is a founder-led cybersecurity company built around one principle: the senior practitioners who scope your engagement are the same people who run it. We combine offensive security — penetration testing, red teaming, and adversary simulation — with GRC advisory and senior security leadership, plus continuous monitoring platforms, so exploit, control gap, and business impact are written by the team that can read all three.
Why we built HackingByte.
Buyers carry the cost of stitching three vendors together. We remove it.
The idea came from the CISO chair. Buying security meant juggling a penetration-testing vendor who proved the exploit, a compliance consultancy who mapped the controls, and an internal team left to turn both into something a board could act on — three vocabularies that rarely agreed. HackingByte exists to remove that translation work: one senior team that runs the test, names the control gap, and writes the board-ready brief, so exploit, compliance, and business risk tell a single story.
How we’re built.
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Senior-only delivery.
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Vendor-independent — no vendor commissions.
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A small, deliberate roster that turns down work that doesn’t fit.
Founder.
Amine Cherrai
Founder & CEO, HackingByte
Amine Cherrai is the Founder & CEO of HackingByte. He has 20+ years of cybersecurity experience across offensive security, GRC, cloud security, and fintech security leadership.
His work connects technical evidence with business risk: from penetration testing and red teaming to ISO 27001, PCI DSS, DORA, and GDPR readiness. He has held senior security and compliance roles, served as a fintech CISO, worked as a consultant, and reported vulnerabilities through major vendor security programmes including Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
At HackingByte, Amine leads a practical, evidence-first model: demonstrate the risk, map it to control and compliance pressure, and turn the finding into a decision the client can act on.
What we stand for.
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Evidence over assumption.
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From exploitability to business risk.
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Practical over theatrical.
How we operate.
Senior-led, remote-first, with secure handling of engagement evidence — and continuous platforms that keep watch between engagements.
See the full HackingByte services overview across penetration testing, red teaming, GRC, and security assessments, explore the continuous monitoring platforms for vulnerability management, attack-surface, and dark-web monitoring, or read how we run an engagement end-to-end.
If you’d rather talk to the person who’d do the work than a sales team, you’re in the right place.