The Story Behind Atlanta’s Penetration Testing Company
How a small Atlanta firm became the country’s go-to penetration testing team
Atlanta’s Penetration Testing Leader
IT Services
2026
Breaking into systems legally is our day job, our night job, and the work we enjoy most. From our headquarters in Atlanta, Raxis has spent more than a decade helping organizations across the country find their security gaps before real attackers do.
Breaking In Is Our Job.
Enjoying It Is Our Culture.
We eat, sleep, and dream security challenges all day every day.
We aren’t your typical suit and tie cybersecurity consultants. Raxis is a fully remote team of ethical hackers spread across the United States and headquartered in Atlanta, united by a shared obsession with outsmarting attackers and a genuine love for the work.
Penetration Testing Is Our Company DNA
By 2011, Mark Puckett had spent enough years in the industry to recognize a familiar pattern: most firms selling penetration testing weren’t really delivering it. In practice, what they sold was vulnerability scanning dressed up in heavier reports, or compliance checklists with an executive summary attached. Genuine adversary simulation, where a senior engineer thinks and acts the way a real attacker would until they find a way in, was uncommon.
That perspective came from over thirty years in information security. Mark had run Red Team operations at Home Depot, held senior roles at GE Energy, Nortel, and Symantec, and earned a CIS degree from Georgia State along with the CISSP, CISM, and ISSAP certifications. He founded Raxis on a single rule: penetration testing would be the only thing the company did.
That rule still holds today. We don’t sell managed security, and we don’t chase whatever the industry happens to be excited about this quarter. We hire ethical hackers who love the work, and we give them the time and freedom to find their way into systems before criminals do.
That focus has earned the trust of banks, defense contractors, law firms, and critical infrastructure operators, organizations that cannot afford to get it wrong.
Today Raxis is a fully remote, U.S. based team headquartered in Atlanta. Penetration testing isn’t one of our service lines. It’s the whole company.
Mark Puckett
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Raxis Leadership
The leadership team behind Raxis brings together decades of Red Team operations, enterprise security experience, and deep technical credentials. Most of our executives are based in metro Atlanta, where the company was founded and continues to grow.
An Atlanta Based Penetration Testing Company
Raxis was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 2011, and every engineer on our team is based in the United States.
Many penetration testing firms offshore their technical work to cut costs, often at the expense of communication, cultural alignment, and accountability. Raxis takes a different approach. Our engineers hold senior-level certifications and understand the regulatory and business landscape American organizations actually operate in, from HIPAA and PCI-DSS to the pace of U.S. boardrooms.
Atlanta has been home since the company started in 2011, and the local foundation shapes how we work with clients across the country.
Real-World Penetration Testing Experience Since 2011
Since 2011, Raxis engineers have successfully breached some of the most heavily defended environments in the world, including global banks, defense contractors, and critical infrastructure operators. That work has given our Red Team a working knowledge of how real attackers think and move, and it informs every engagement we run from our Atlanta headquarters.
Trusted by Thousands, from Startups to Enterprises
Watch our Red Team in action. Seeing how readily a determined attacker can move through a defended environment is often the clarity a security program needs.
The Numbers Tell the Story
More than a decade of real breach experience, hundreds of engagements every year, and a client roster that spans regional banks, Fortune 500 enterprises, and critical infrastructure operators across the United States.
