A Decade of Offensive Security.
Ten years. One mission: to make our clients unbreakable.
No side business, no distraction — since 2016 exclusively adversary simulation for regulated institutions and critical-infrastructure operators across DACH, the Nordics, and MENA.
- 2016
Exploit Labs founded in Germany — threat-intelligence-driven offensive security from day one.
- 2017
First team member receives dedicated red team training in the USA.
- 2019
Enterprise Red Teaming practice established. Cobalt Strike shop — further differentiation between penetration testing and red teaming.
- 2021
Joined the ENISA Workgroup on Threat Landscapes.
- 2022
Appointed Official OffSec Learning & Channel Partner. Forming an alliance with SecureIT and deepening our activities in Iceland. Opening of Exploit Labs LLC in Dubai, with further activities in Austria and Switzerland.
- 2023
ISO 27001 / IT-Grundschutz per BSI. Member of the FIRST Special Interest Group for Red Teaming. First SANS Trainer emerges from our team.
- 2024
First official TIBER and DORA TLPT engagements. Training partnership with Manufaktur IT Training. Further deepening physical penetration testing skills.
- 2025 / 2026
OffSec Gold Channel & Learning Partner (DACH, MENA, GCC). Full-scope cyber-physical red team engagements across the EU. Successfully won furhter government tenders around penetration testing and source code review. Furthering our capabilities around Automated / AI-driven penetration testing and pentest-as-a-service.
Focus over portfolio sprawl. Reach over regional comfort.
No incident response. No IT admin work. No "we do that too". We concentrate on one job — adversary simulation — and get better at it, instead of drifting into generic "consultants" who "also" pentest on the side.
From Reykjavík to Frankfurt to Dubai: our clients operate internationally. Banks, insurers, government bodies, manufacturing, logistics, defense, healthcare, energy — there is barely a vertical or horizontal we haven't been dropped into. It doesn't get boring.
Snapshots from our locations and trainings. All faces are deliberately anonymized — what matters is the working mode, not the individual.
Everyone who has helped build Exploit Labs.
Honorable mentions. To everyone who has walked this road with us over the past ten years — including those whose portrait we couldn't track down or who never sat for one: thank you. You are just as much a part of this story. And to all of our partners and clients who trusted us and walked this way with us — thank you for a decade of Exploit Labs.