Cybersecurity in Morocco — proof, not promises.
HackingByte is a Moroccan cybersecurity firm, registered in Casablanca. We show how an attacker would actually reach what matters in your organisation — and what it would cost you — with senior-led testing run to international standards.
- Senior-led delivery.
- No tools sold.
- Evidence-driven reporting.
Cybersecurity in Morocco has changed. Law 05-20 on cybersecurity and the DGSSI’s frameworks now structure the obligations of important entities and vital-infrastructure operators; Law 09-08, supervised by the CNDP, governs personal data; and buyers — banks, insurers, large accounts, European partners — ask for security evidence before they sign. Moroccan organisations no longer have to choose between a local firm that describes risk and a foreign provider that does not understand their context.
HackingByte S.A.R.L. is a Moroccan cybersecurity company, based in Casablanca, working to the international standards of the trade — PTES, MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, CIS. Every engagement is run by senior practitioners and ends in reproducible evidence, risk read in business-impact terms, and an action plan your teams can actually execute. Our penetration testing is the most common starting point.
A Moroccan firm at international standards.
Based in Casablanca, at the level your international partners expect.
Working with a Moroccan cybersecurity firm should mean no compromise on technical depth. HackingByte works to the same frameworks as international firms — PTES and MITRE ATT&CK for external and internal testing, the OWASP WSTG and API Security Top 10 for web and APIs, the CIS Benchmarks for cloud — and names them explicitly in every scope and report. Deliverables are written in French or English depending on the audience: your technical teams, your leadership, or a foreign customer’s auditor.
Local presence changes how an engagement runs: a scoping conversation in person in Casablanca, on-site work anywhere in Morocco where the scope calls for it — internal network, hardware, debrief workshops — and a counterpart who understands the context of Moroccan organisations, from the subsidiary of an international group to the SME signing its first major-account contract.
Our services in Morocco.
Offensive security, assessment, and compliance — for Moroccan organisations.
Every engagement is senior-led, fixed-scope, and evidence-first. Scope is set to your real attack surface and your actual obligations.
- Penetration testing External, internal, web, and API testing performed manually by senior practitioners — demonstrated attack paths with evidence, not a scanner export. The format a customer security review, an auditor, or an insurer expects.
- Red teaming and adversary simulation Objective-based engagements for mature programmes: your detection and response tested against a realistic scenario, under strict rules of engagement.
- Security assessments A structured, evidence-based review of your posture — useful as triage before a full penetration test, after an incident, or when facing a buyer’s questionnaire.
- Cloud security assessment Assessment of AWS, Azure, and GCP environments — identities, privilege paths, and the misconfigurations that chain into real impact.
- GRC advisory Governance, risk, and compliance aligned to your real risk — programmes that hold up between audits, not binders.
- ISO 27001 readiness Gap analysis, control implementation, and audit-readiness for ISO 27001 — the certification large accounts most often ask for.
The scoping conversation is free and without obligation.
The Moroccan context.
A regulatory framework taking shape, and rising customer demands.
Morocco’s cybersecurity framework has tightened considerably: Law 05-20 and its implementing texts set security obligations for public administrations, vital-infrastructure operators, and the entities concerned, under the DGSSI; Law 09-08 has, for more than a decade, imposed personal-data protection obligations supervised by the CNDP. In parallel, the most immediate pressure often comes from the market itself: tenders that require a recent penetration test, banks and insurers asking pointed questions, and European partners extending their requirements — GDPR, NIS 2, DORA — to their Moroccan suppliers.
Our role is to turn those requirements into evidence: a penetration test or security assessment whose findings are reproducible, a reading of risk your leadership can carry to a board or a buyer, and a prioritised remediation plan. We do not provide legal advice — interpreting Law 05-20 or Law 09-08 is for your counsel — but we make your security demonstrable against these frameworks. Our methodology sets out the standards we cite in every report.
Serving European clients from Morocco.
For Moroccan companies exposed to European requirements.
A growing number of Moroccan companies — SaaS vendors, outsourcing providers, group subsidiaries — serve European clients and inherit their contractual and regulatory requirements. When that is your case, we align the security evidence with those frameworks: GDPR consulting for personal-data processing, DORA readiness for financial entities and their ICT providers, NIS 2 readiness when your clients extend the directive to their supply chain, and SOC 2 readiness for large-account security reviews.
These remain advisory and technical-compliance work, never legal advice: interpreting the texts is for your counsel. What we add is making security demonstrable and the organisation auditable against what your European clients ask of you.
Frequently asked questions
- Is HackingByte a Moroccan company?
- Yes. HackingByte S.A.R.L. is a company under Moroccan law, registered in Casablanca. The full entity details are on the site’s Legal Notice page.
- Do you work outside Casablanca?
- Yes. Engagements run remotely or on site depending on scope — Casablanca, Rabat, and the whole country for work that requires it, such as internal penetration tests or debrief workshops.
- Are your reports accepted by international clients and auditors?
- The engagement file explicitly cites the standards applied (PTES, MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP, CIS), provides reproducible evidence for every finding, and can be delivered in French or English — the format large-account security reviews and auditors expect.
- Do you cover Law 09-08 and Law 05-20?
- We assess and demonstrate the effective security of your systems against these frameworks — testing, audits, remediation plans — and work alongside your legal counsel on interpreting the texts, without providing legal advice ourselves.
- Do you work in French and English?
- Yes. Conversations and deliverables are available in both languages, depending on your teams and counterparts — useful when a report is meant for both Moroccan leadership and a foreign client or auditor.
Tell us what is driving the need — a tender, a regulatory requirement, a doubt after an incident — and we will scope the response around your context.