Hashorn

Location · Security Testing Company

Security Testing Company in San Francisco

San Francisco and the wider Bay Area remain the world's deepest market for AI-first software companies. Buyers are typically technical founders, CTOs, and engineering leaders who set the bar for senior offshore engagement — fast-cadence delivery, AI-assisted engineering, and architectural rigour are baseline expectations. Hashorn works as your security testing company for teams in San Francisco and across the United States. Threat modelling, code review, API and cloud security testing built into the same sprint that ships features.

UTC-8 gives San Francisco a 12.5-hour offset from India — daily overlap typically lands in San Francisco morning / India evening hours.

Local context

What the market looks like

Why our delivery model is shaped for buyers in this market.

Heavy concentration of AI-first startups and AI infrastructure companies.

Buyers expect AI-augmented workflows as a baseline, not a differentiator.

Premium on weekly demo cadence and senior-engineer ownership.

Who we work with

Typical buyers

Seed to Series C AI and B2B SaaS startups.

AI infrastructure and developer-tools companies scaling product engineering.

Agencies in the Bay Area serving fast-growth product startups.

What you get

As your security testing company

Threat modelling, code review, API and cloud security testing built into the same sprint that ships features.

Threat model and prioritised risk register

Code, API, web, mobile, and cloud testing

Severity-rated findings with reproductions and fixes

Re-test and release sign-off

SDLC recommendations baked into your sprint

Optional SAST/DAST tooling rollout

How we deliver

Our process

Senior engineers run the work. AI handles the scaffolding. Weekly demos keep things honest.

01

Threat model

Map the trust boundaries, sensitive assets, and the realistic attacker model for the product.

02

Test

Manual and tool-assisted testing — code review, API, web, mobile, cloud — to the OWASP and CIS baselines.

03

Report

Severity-rated findings with reproductions, fixes, and verification steps.

04

Retest

Re-test fixes, sign off the release, and roll learnings into your SDLC.

Stack

Tools and technologies

Burp SuiteOWASP ZAPSemgrepTrivySnykCheckovtfsecNmapMobSFFrida

FAQ

Questions clients ask before we start.

Building in San Francisco? Let's talk.

Tell us what you're building, we'll tell you how we'd ship it.

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