# Evolve Security Reviews **Vendor:** Evolve Security **Category:** [Penetration Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/penetration-testing-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 52 ## About Evolve Security Evolve Security's patent pending Darwin Attack® platform is a comprehensive collaboration and management tool designed to help organizations manage their cybersecurity services and reduce risks of successful cyberattacks. The platform serves as a repository for research, vulnerability and attack details, compliance requirements, remediation recommendations, and mitigating controls. It also functions as a security feed, collaboration tool, tracking tool, management platform, and reporting platform. The platform enables organizations to actively manage their security program by providing real-time updates on testing progress and findings, which allows for timely remediation. Darwin Attack® is constantly updated with new information and functionality to ensure that it remains effective and efficient in meeting the needs of Evolve Security's clients. ## Evolve Security Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **actionable intelligence** provided by Evolve Security, enhancing their understanding of vulnerabilities and best practices. (2 reviews) - Users value the **excellent communication** from Evolve Security, ensuring clarity and support throughout the pentesting process. (2 reviews) - Users highlight the **user-friendly interface** of Evolve Security, making configuration and onboarding quick and efficient. (2 reviews) - Users value the **thorough vulnerability detection** that includes clear instructions for fixing discovered issues. (2 reviews) - Users value the **thorough vulnerability identification** by Evolve Security, enhancing their understanding and security measures effectively. (2 reviews) - Audit Support (1 reviews) - Dashboard Customization (1 reviews) - Dashboard Usability (1 reviews) - Detailed Analysis (1 reviews) - Detailed Information (1 reviews) ## Evolve Security Reviews ### 1. Professional, Well-Managed ASM and Pen Testing Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin C. | IT Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2026 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** We signed up for ASM (Attack Surface Management) and a penetration test (Assumed Breach). Their approach was professional, and their communication was spot-on throughout the pen testing process. I wasn’t sure at first, but overall the experience felt well managed and clear from start to finish. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** This year will be our 2nd year using Evolve Security, and I don't foresee anything but a similar experience from last year, which is excellent! **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve Security was able to find a hole in our network that previous pen tests hadn’t discovered. This helped us shore up our security posture and address gaps we didn’t realize were there. ### 2. Evolve Security Cloud Assessment - 5 Star **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erick M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** There are many things I value about the services Evolve Security offers and how they deploy those services. I have used them to perform cloud and network security assessments for my organization. I was impressed with their approach from start to finish. As a non-profit Evolve worked closely with me to offer competitive pricing for their services. The project was clearly scoped and communicated during a kick-off meeting that sales representatives and technicians attended. The project was delivered efficiently with the use of their online Darwin platform. Most importantly the format and detail contained in the report which included recommended action items was top quality. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** There are no downsides to using Evolve Security. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** Evolve and their experienced security team provides an excellent product and service. From start to finish they have been extremely responsive and accommodating to my needs. Most importantly, they delivered a product that I can confidently present to my stakeholders as evidence that I am meeting the requirements within our environments to ensure our data is safe and secure. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve Security performed a cloud security assessment on our Office 365 environment which has resulted in a more secure environment for our organization and users. Additionally, they have been tasked with performing network penetration testing which has also returned valuable feedback on the security of our network environment which has resulted in confidence that our environment and data stored in it is safe and secure. ### 3. A wonderful provider that finds actual problems and just doesn't placate you. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph M. | Network Administrator & IT Security Officer, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The Darwin platform for tracking the lifecycle of vulnerabilities they find is top notch. Very simple to use and produces great penetration testing reports to use for compliance activities. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** All things considered there is very little to dislike about Evolve Security. For some people price could be a concern, but it really depends on how open ended your scope may be. If you control your scope this really isn't a problem. You have to be realistic with what you ask. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** You can quickly tell that Evolve Security has significant experience in penetration testing. They do it and they do it well. You can tell that the engineers that perform the testing have that right mindset to get the most out of the engagement. They are leveraging vulnerabilities that you would see malicious entities would use in the wild. Many providers just run Nessus and give you the results of that in some digested form. They take those same types of scans as a starting point but then put the human knowledge into how to chain that together into a compromise. We went from a provider that just placated us and said we were doing good, to one that actually pointed out real flaws. It is very refreshing to find real problems to fix. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had been using another provider for pentesting for the last three years. After a GLBA assessment it was determined that what we had been paying for did not technically meet the definition of penetration testing. Evolve quoted us for their penetration testing services and we went with them. Their first pentest found vulnerabilities that the previous provider never reported to us in the three years we used them. It was a total night and day difference. The results and professionalism of Evolve speak for themselves. ### 4. Evolve Security - Using attack techniques in an innovative way w/ highly responsive team members **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The most helpful components of Evolve Security is not only their customer service and direct communication lines to representatives/leadership in the event our team needs assistance; but the true validation components and extensive documentation this vendor provides to ensure we have all the information to investigate any alerting or other attack vectors within our environment and applications. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** The only thing we haven't leveraged heavily is the Evolve Darwin Platform to its fullest capabilities; however there are options to have these integrate into various ticketing components and conduct tracking on demand for validation of remediation and other factors. I would say the only downside we've faced is one assessment was not detailed, documented, in depth and was more of a vulnerability scan; however, Evolve Security stood by their product team to retest for us and provide a more in depth analysis of the application/environment in question. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** My recommendations is to ensure the breadth and depth of the assessments are discussed in detail. There are some really strong testers at Evolve Security that do provide extensive reporting and in depth analysis of environments/applications. Additionally, using the Darwin platform has been a breeze to set up scoping and additional access information to testers in a secure and confidential method. I would advise looking at the ticketing components for folks that wish to use this technology to track issues or have direct integrations with other GRC systems. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve is currently providing 3rd Party Manual Penetration Testing services to meet regulatory and customer compliance requirements. Evolve has been thorough and innovative in their attack techniques in order to assess our environment and ensure we have full visibility and validation of attack vectors within our environments and applications. ### 5. Finally, a Scalable Cyber Model for Tribes! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** G . | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Their staff! Every single person we have worked with has been knowledgeable, passionate, and conscientious of our time. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I really do not have a single one. And we have been working with them going on six months. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** As a tribe, we have one of the most unique environments and considerations out there. These folks have gone above and beyond, even from a billing standpoint, to provide this service to us. Representing an underserved people group, we are often fighting battles with our hands tied, however, Evolve is helping bring us to the forefront of security conversations in the tribal community and is an integral piece to a tribal model we have developed and plan to share! Contact us any time, we will happily give our feedback direct. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve is providing Penetration Testing as a Service as well as Governance Risk and Compliance work. ### 6. Evolve - Internal/External Network Penetration Testing Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Blake S. | Senior Security Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2025 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** I really enjoyed the attitudes of their technical teams and working with them. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I feel like Evolve is less developed in the GRC/Compliance space. They continue to build out this space and develop offerings, but I feel like this is what holds them back from becoming a partner and remaining as just a pentest vendor we use. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** They are most adept at pentesting and technical services. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve helps us uncover and prioritize vulnerabilities affecting our environment. I really appreciate the extra steps they take to validate vulnerabilities rather than spitting out reports from an automated tooling. Evolve takes the time to educate you on the implications of the vulnerabilities, and which ones are most critical to you and your organization. ### 7. Evolve Security PenTesting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2025 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Evolve Security is very good at documenting their processes, staying engaged throughout the entire process and provides a comprehensive review post testing and then provides a strategy to remediate any findings throughout the process. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Being that our team is small it is sometimes difficult to meet the desired deadlines from the Evolve security team. This is not an issue with Evolve though, it is just a resource constraint on our side and Evolve is always very willing to adjust deadlines provided we communicate openly with them and stay engaged. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** Evolve offers a great team of experts who are very knowledgeable. They are easy to talk with and offer additional services like continuous Attack Surface Management to help find and mitigate risks before it is too late. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve security is helping us to meet compliance requirements for our group companies. Being that we are publicly traded on the Japanese stock exchange, we are required to meet certain compliances and Evolve security helps us to meet those requirements by providing penetration testing for our set of locations. ### 8. Excellent service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hank H. | Information Security Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Not only did they exploit vulnerabilities, but they showed us how to correct the vulnerabilities. The communication from the pentesters and our company was great. While we were being actively pentested, we were able to reach out to confirm if the attack was from them or from an acutal threat. The debreif was quick and very detailed. The instructions were clear to follow on best practices for our vulnerabilities **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Honestly, I have no issues with them this year. Everything went smoothly. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was able to get somethings pushed through our chain of command faster. Our AD is a mess and the pentest confirmed it. Now we have permission to get it cleaned up! It also found some things that we may never have found for many years, such as some user's properties were able to be changed by non-admin accounts in AD. ### 9. The teams and the software were a good solution for our penetration testing needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill C. | COO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Ease of use of the interface to configure the sites and IPs we needed to test. The interface is technician freindly and allows quick input of data. Once your information is verified the testing is accomplished promptly by the Evolve team. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** There was not anything siginificant I can think of. Evolve / Darwin was the first thought I had when a collegue was looking for penn testing services. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We did not find any siginicant security issues. We had not expected to as this was not our first penn test. There were a few new medium sevarity ones we addressed which was helpful and having gone through the process was comforting. ### 10. Evolve has assisted us in detecting and eliminating threats to our network. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Evolve Security is quick to respond, which is absolutely necessary in order to be effective. They also helped us develop a plan in case we are attacked, so we can minimize the effect of the attack. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Evolve Security likes to be very involved with our business and how we do things from an IT perspective. From my point of view, they're asking for some things that I don't think they need. I may be wrong on this topic as well, but that is just my feeling. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have constant threats to our network. Bad actors are always trying to find ways into our computers and servers. So we have to rely on a partner to help us detect and thwart those attempts. Evolve Security has been doing a great job for us in that respect. ### 11. Keeping Our Cloud Secure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Calvin M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The onboarding process for new clients was easy and well detailed. My project manager was hands on and let me go at my pace. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Nothing the product works and provides great reporting. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's alerting us to ports and bad code that could leave our website vulnerable. The penetration testing is a great resource to see, what the network admins can't see with their resources. The detailed reporting and ability to follow-up on the tasks, allows you easily keep track of solutions and still pending vulnerabilities. ### 12. Darwin Attack great for Financial Institutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Will G. | VP Information Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Rich detail from dashboards and actionable reports. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Usually solution implementation and end user training are an issue for solutions like these but not for Darwin Attack...up and running in minutes. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validation for maturing Vulnerability Management program. Ensuring managed security services are providing value. ### 13. Evolve security is a great partner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The Darwin attack platform from Evolve Security has been a helpful tool for managing our yearly application penetration tests. I can do everything I need to through the platform, including communicating with their engineers, tracking issue remediation, and accessing final reports. I like that all the data from previous years is kept so that I can easily refer back to it when I need. Customer support has been consistenyl top notch, they are always quick to respond whenever I've requested custom documentation for picky clients. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Default filters are the one part of Darwin Attack that I would like to see improved. By default the platform will show you everything at once rather than results/vulnerabilities/remediations from your most recent round of testing. Its always a shock to log in and see a large number of issues only to find they were fixed years ago. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin attack helps me: - Access yearly penetration reports - Mark identified issues as remediated - Share credentials and testing scope securely ### 14. Darwin Attack makes us more secure **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Farming | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Finding vunerabilities that I didn't know we had **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Resources to correct the things that Darwin Attack finds. More knowledge articles on how best to secure the things found. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Strengthing our security posture against threats ### 15. Darwin Attack - ASM Continuous PEN Test Services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wilmer H. | IT Network and Cybersecurity Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** It is a great experience working with Evolve Security, we use the ASM and Continuous PEN Test services. Darwin Attack features that we like: -Easy implementation. -Customer support communication chat inside the portal. -The time they dedicate and the detailed information shared with each report period. -The technical team suggested the necessary remediation steps when needed. -The Number of Features and reports. -The on-demand Customer-facing letter. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** So far we have not found any negative facts on Darwin Attack. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide us visibility on current vulnerabilities in internet-facing network devices, and suggest the necessary remediation steps. ### 16. The results you need with actionables ready to be applied. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isidro M. | IT Lead, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Each project is very well organized and the results for each pentest are easy to navigate. Each result come with the actionable to be implemented in order to remediate each given vulnerability. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Some notifications may go to the spam folder **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps our organization's key services remain protected periodically and constantly, in addition to always remaining compatible with the demands of regulatory entities. ### 17. Tracking vulnerabilities for compliance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Curt H. | Enterprise Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The Darwin Attack portal makes it easy to track vulnerabilities from identification to remediation. It also provides the reporting we need for our clients. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** We have no complaints about the portal - meets all our needs **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack makes it easy to meet our compliance needs when it comes to penetration testing and vulnerability scanning ### 18. Outstanding product and wonderful team at Evolve! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David S. | President & CEO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Darwin attack is a multi-positive experience really. It is not just one thing that I appreciate. The fact that Darwin Attack is a 24-7 and 365 day participation and monitoring service is first and foremost. We did a solid review of the industry and service levels. Darwin Attack / Evolve stood head and shoulders above all others. The constant monitoring was the primary seperation from other services. Second, the platform provides insiights almost realtime. No other service had anything like it. Lastly, after working with the team and experiencing their communication and customer service. It was clear to me we made the right choice! **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Consistancy in monitoring, platoform ease and insights, communication and customer service from Evolve's team to point out exposure or vulnerabilities and resolve the issues. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exposing potential vulnerabilities in our security systems and reinforcing our protections. ### 19. Great pentesting company **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** I enjoy the: * Platform * Great communication from the team * Accuracy of pentest and findings * Professionalism of the team * Schedule for the pentest * Ability to reallocate credits for different parts of the pentest **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** The reporting exports could use some work. It is difficult to present to executives sometimes. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are our penetration testing team for 2 years ### 20. Great company to use for Penetration Testing! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James B. | Chief Information Officer, Food & Beverages, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** I chose to go with Evolve Security Darwin Attack due to their detailed and thorough approach to penetration testing. I was really impressed with the portal they provided for the project. It was very easy to see high level project status and outcomes. It also provided the details needed for my Sysadmin to dig into and address. There was great communication throughout the entire project from all members. Any questions we had were answered right away. We do plan on using them in the future for other areas of our business. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I honestly cannot think of anything that could have gone smoother in our process with them. At one point we were concerned about a critical server being hit too much, we communicated that we were concerned and they backed off and readdresseed that at another time. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We implemented new Firewalls and I wanted to be confident there were no vulnerablities or mis configurations. I was able to provide a report to the owners and insurance companies of the outcome which was positive. ### 21. Darwin Attack is a Best in Class Enterprise Vulnerability platform! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jim W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The layout is clear and straightforward and is not over cluttered. Projects and scoping are intuitive and easy to work with. The vulnerability dashboard is a quick way to see where the highest risk is! **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Absolutely nothing, the platform is quick and elegant. I hope Evolve continues to develop easy to use solutions like this. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack me ofrece un único panel de control para supervisar los aspectos más críticos de mis responsabilidades en ciberseguridad empresarial y análisis de riesgos. La plataforma facilita la externalización de tareas de seguridad y me permite sentirme seguro de que todo se está llevando a cabo. ### 22. Happy Darwin Attack customer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The continuious montoring of our public facing assets to be sure notihing new or unintended are allowed to sart without notification. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** The MFA is hard to login with and takes several attempts. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** By constantly monitoring our public environment, it allows us to work on other IT releated issues. Time that was spent testing the external environment can now be spent elsewhere. ### 23. Remediation made easy! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** We had a great experience with Darwin Attack. The remediation process was intuitive and streamlined. Our Evolve support was excellent - we received prompt responses and were guided throughout the testing process. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** We couldn't think of any dislikes. The Evolve team delivered everything as promised and met our timelines and goals. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin has made it much easier for us to deliver reports to our executive team, and has helped to improve our overall security posture. ### 24. Excellent Security Services - Clear Communication & Actionable Results **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kim S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** In my role as project manager, what I appreciated most about Evolve was their communication skills and their excellent internal project management capabilities. Evolve's PM is excellent, and checked in frequently to provide status updates. It was easy to get access to team members and get any questions answered promptly. Their deliverables were professional, detailed, and included actionable remediation advice. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** There have been no downsides with working with Evolve. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** As a project manager, I was overseeing a comprehensive security assessment for one of our clients. Part of the scope was penetration testing, so we partnered with Evolve to handle this aspect. I could not have been more impressed with Evolve's work and professionalism. The kick-off call with Evolve set clear expectations upfront. Throughout the engagement, their team provided timely status updates and quickly responded to any questions. Evolve's deliverables were incredibly thorough, with detailed findings and actionable advice for fixing vulnerabilities. Their expertise and communication made coordination easy on my end. I wholeheartedly recommend Evolve Security for your pen testing and advanced security needs. They deliver excellent results while making the process smooth for clients. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Penetration testing can be a complex endeavor, requiring specialized expertise and care not to disrupt normal business operations. We needed to find the right external partner to conduct comprehensive yet non-intrusive penetration testing for a client undergoing an advanced security assessment, as penetration testing is not a service our organization provides. Partnering with Evolve enabled us to provide a comprehensive assessment for our client. ### 25. Darwin Attack is helping us to secure all of our networks. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Immediate notification of overlooked vulnerabilities via a live dashboard. Notifications include instructions for remediation of the vulnerabilities, and ratings for the risks of the discovered issues allowing us to prioritize our responses. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Haven't run into any dislikes yet. All of their efforts have been helpful. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exposure of overlooked vulnerabilities. Knowing what could come back to impact us is allowing us to correct issues before they become costly problems. ### 26. Absolute pros from kickoff to closeout **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua P. | vCIO / Cybersecurity, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Evolve listens. They are not hammers looking for nails. They listen to the needs for our particular projects and match services and talent appropriate to those needs in terms of scope, budget and deliverables. Every single person we've interacted with at Evolve has been a consummate professional. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I have not yet encountered any downside of working with Evolve. Given the value they provide, their services are fairly priced and generously scoped. No complaints. **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** If you are looking for a high quality pentest experience, be it a physical on-prem, external network, internal network, web app or red-team, do not hesitate. Reach out to Evolve today. You will be happy you did. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Penetration Testing - I work with a MSP that provides services to many nonprofits with significant threat models. We need a pentest partner that can handle a wide range of testing and flexibility to meet our clients' diverse needs. Evolve has been all that and more. ### 27. Drill Down Vulnerability Tracker **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer C. | Master Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** I truly value how you can arrange the results by category, severity, and other factors to delve deeper into each finding. This assists you in locating any flaws or setup issues. it provides information on meeting compliance standards, putting protections in place, and making recommendations for resolving the issues. It also allows you to keep track of the steps done to address each issue. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** The setup of a scope should be more user-friendly, especially when working with a big number of IP addresses is one minor flaw I found. The site occasionally freezes when browsing through many reports, necessitating a page refresh. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Darwin Attack tool is quite helpful in spotting instances of configuration drift and informing us of potential security holes in our IT infrastructure. It enables us to anticipate risks and take preventative action to lessen them. By offering a comprehensive solution that is simple to use and makes security risk management much more manageable and less daunting, Darwin Attack has significantly changed our organisation. ### 28. Excellent interface that streamlines results **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** I think the layout and the user interface are pretty easy to learn and use, making getting to your reports and results simple and painless. Also, being able to quickly drill down into each of the respective findings by category, severity and others helps to take pertinent information and get it into the hands of end users or the business line that needs to understand where vulnerabilities or configuration issues exist. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Some of the downsides that I have seen thus far are generally limited towards simple functionality or a lacking of intuitive techniques. Being able to input a scope in numerous different ways (single ip's, numerous/block of ip's, CIDR range, domains, URL/URI specific. It would be helpful to make this process a little easier and more efficient. Also, tracking remediations throughout a finding could be simplified. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Darwin Attack platform is helping to take snapshots of our external presence and footprint in regulated intervals. It allows us to stay on top of potential vulnerabilities in our environment and helps quickly detect where configuration drift may have occurred. ### 29. A solid platform for our penetration testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig P. | IT Compliance Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Darwin Attack provides the one place to go for all information related to a penetration test project. No more tracking down sent and received emails, as communication with the Evolve team can all be in the platform. The user interface is easy to navigate, and the Project page lets me see when pen tests are tentatively scheduled, making it easier to plan ahead. The download report function allows the creation of a report with all of the details maintained in Darwin Attack. This detailed report was beneficial to our development team in remediating identified vulnerabilities. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** As a customer of Evolve Security, I have yet to find anything in the Darwin Attack that is not useful. All the information I need to communicate to our development and technical teams is on the platform. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Darwin Attack platform provides me with a secure way to communicate with our Evolve Security team regarding our penetration testing projects. Once a project is completed, all of the detailed information is in Darwin Attack and I can easily create a report to internally share the details for our teams to remediate vulnerabilities. ### 30. Great experience using the Darwin Attack penetration test **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Darwin Attack provides an intuitive penetration test plan. The interface that makes it easy for users to navigate through its features. Its speed and efficiency in performing tasks are great. The support team at Evolve Security was also extremely helpful. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I don't have any complaints. Perhaps the cost of service can be a point to think about for small businesses. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performing penetration tests to find possible exploits in our systems. We benefited from knowing that our system currently have the most up to date safeguards. ### 31. Easy to use and navigate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** UI makes it easy to sort through vulnerabilities to view them per host or to take a glance as a whole. The summary findings are helpful to get an idea of the main issues with the environment but each vulnerability also has detailed info on a per-finding basis that's easy to view. Marking risks as accepted or remediated can be done as bulk actions on findings, so it doesn't take a lot of time at all to update a report. The search and filter options are good and can include all previous reports or only specific ones. The activity feed is handy to view the timeline of actions taken. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Filtering is slow when going a lot or reports. Sometimes searching or marking a lot of findings can cause the portal to hang and need to refresh to restart the query. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used it for Quarterly Internal Vulnerability Scanning and Yearly Pen testing. To fulfill our compliance requirements and keeping our environment up to date and mitigate risk. ### 32. Works well if you're able to login **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Inna P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Document exchange is fine. Graphic interface is OK. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Does not work on Edge. Takes 3-4 times to login from Firefox **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure document exchange ### 33. Great company! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** It's easy to use, and the report/results they deliver are categorized nicely and are easy to understand. They have great support too. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I can't really think of anything I disliked. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has spotted the areas we could improve security wise. ### 34. Darwin Attack Platform 2.0 is straightforward and easy to understand **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pat M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The new Darwin Attack platform interface is straightforward and easy to navigate. I readily identified the process for working through each identified vulnerability. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Some files I tried to upload were not allowed by the platform when posting on individual vulnerabilities. A list of what is allowed and not allowed for the different types of posts when choosing to upload would be helpful. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Darwin Attack platform provides a secure and comprehensive location to track the penetration testing projects our organization has contracted with Evolve Security. It designates the Evolve staff who are working on the project, a list of assets to be tested, any vulnerabilities found, as well as all scopes for any current or previous testing phases. There is a thorough narrative of each identified vulnerability, with links to best practices, remediation suggestions, and the discovery methodology used. Documentation of vulnerability remediation is quite simple to enter into the platform. It was helpful that I could document a risk as being accepted and still add notes as to why. Filtering findings by risk level and status to quickly sort results helps to tag which ones were the most critical to resolve and which vulnerabilities still required work to close. The platform maintains a linear process for each vulnerability that involves identification, validation, remediation and retesting. Each stage of the process is marked, making it easy to know the status of each vulnerability and, thus, whose responsibility the next step is. Returning to earlier testing projects was necessary to compare results and remediations when reviewing vulnerabilities. Since these are archived within the platform, there is no need to review documentation elsewhere. ### 35. Expert Cybersecurity Testing with Evolve's Darwin Attack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Firstly, I was impressed with the level of professionalism and expertise displayed by the team at Evolve. They were able to identify potential vulnerabilities in our system that we weren't even aware of, which was very reassuring as we strive to keep our data secure. The use of the Darwin Attack tool by Evolve was particularly impressive. It allowed for a more comprehensive analysis of our security system, and the results were clear and easy to understand. I appreciated the level of detail in the report provided by Evolve, which made it easy for us to take appropriate action to address any weaknesses. The communication from Evolve throughout the testing process was also exceptional. They were responsive to any questions or concerns we had, and were always clear and concise in their explanations. The team was also very respectful of our time, and ensured that the testing process did not disrupt our day-to-day operations. Overall, I would highly recommend Evolve and their Darwin Attack pen test security tool to any company looking for top-notch cybersecurity testing. The level of expertise, professionalism, and clear communication displayed by the team at Evolve was truly impressive, and gave us confidence in our security measures. Thank you, Evolve! **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Darwin Attack is a powerful and comprehensive penetration testing tool that is widely used in the cybersecurity industry to identify vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks. It is known for its advanced capabilities and ability to simulate real-world attack scenarios, which can help organizations improve their security posture and protect against cyber threats. However, like any technology or software tool, Darwin Attack may not be suitable for every organization's specific needs or preferences, so it's important to evaluate it based on your specific requirements and goals. Ultimately, it's best to consult with a cybersecurity expert to determine the best approach to securing your systems and networks. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack is a powerful penetration testing tool that helps to identify vulnerabilities in computer systems and networks. By simulating real-world attack scenarios, Darwin Attack can help to identify weaknesses in an organization's security defenses, allowing them to take proactive steps to prevent potential cyber attacks. One of the key problems that Darwin Attack is solving is the need for comprehensive and reliable security testing. Traditional security testing methods such as vulnerability scans and manual testing are often time-consuming, incomplete, and can miss critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by cybercriminals. Darwin Attack addresses this issue by providing a comprehensive and automated testing tool that is specifically designed to identify vulnerabilities that might be missed by other testing methods. By using Darwin Attack for annual penetration testing, organizations can benefit from a more complete and detailed understanding of their security posture. This can help them to proactively identify and address vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by attackers, reducing the risk of a data breach or other security incident. In addition to improving security, Darwin Attack can also benefit organizations by helping them to comply with regulatory requirements. Many industry regulations and standards, such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and ISO 27001, require organizations to perform regular security testing and demonstrate that they are taking proactive steps to protect sensitive data. By using Darwin Attack, organizations can meet these requirements and maintain compliance with industry regulations. Overall, Darwin Attack is solving the problem of comprehensive and reliable security testing, and is helping organizations to improve their security posture, reduce risk, and maintain compliance with industry regulations. ### 36. Darwin Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The Darwin Attack platform is very easy to navigate and understand. I find the layout very user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I haven't found any big downsides of the Darwin Attack platform. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack shows us where we are lacking and where we need to improve our security posture. ### 37. Great platform for tracking and remediating security vulnerabilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** - Being able to visualize categories (Nests) as well as drill down into individual vulnerabilities - Timely and secure communication between the testing team and our organization - The ability to generate a client-facing letter that shows our internal and external stakeholders that we take security seriously - Most vulnerabilities found came with detailed remediation suggestions; significantly reducing the additional research required from my team **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** - limited authenticator options for logging into the system (minor inconvenience) **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted a professional third-party penetration test and vulnerability assessment to identify any gaps for remediation and demonstrate due diligence to our customers and stakeholder. ### 38. A Solid Vulnerability Management Product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Courtney T. | IT Security Analyst **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Darwin Attack's UI is clean and easy to navigate. The new "timeline"-like feature adds a simple, secure way to communicate with the Evolve team, allowing users to quickly and simply reference specific projects in each message. Also, the file downloads/uploads tab contains all project files from both the client and Evolve, making it easy to retrieve completed reports and upload documents related to upcoming engagements. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** As a customer of Evolve, I've yet to find anything in the Darwin Attack portal that isn't useful or helpful. All the information I need to reference to create documentation for my employer is centrally located and tidily organized. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack provides me with a secure way to communicate with Evolve during engagements and provide information related to those engagements. Once they are completed, I can retrieve reports and other required data to create documentation for my employer. ### 39. Informative tool with great resources and customer service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Summarized view of vulnerabilities. The news feed with the easy ability to communicate with the team. Ability to review and track future and past projects detailing the vulns found. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** A few things we would love to see in the application are; the lack of ability to link external tickets to each vulnerability, when having the same assets (different ports) causes multiple vulns in the view so it shows higher numbers. Lastly, the inability to specify each asset as internal and external, meaning we have IPs for our test environments and IPs for our production environment and have the ability to decipher between the two easily would allow for prioritizing which issues to fix sooner. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being confident handing our software to our customers with confidence that there are no security issues within our application is a great weight off our shoulders. We have certain limitations on what and how we can validate against our code changes and being partnered with you allows us to cover a much more comprehensive range of testing for our application. ### 40. Pentesting Services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris W. | Chief Information Security Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The project team is very hands-on and is available for the entire test window. The testers are also available to answer any questions and will explain any issues identified during testing. Using the Darwin Attack Platform has dramatically increased transparency and ensures that we work as a team, not just as consultants and clients. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** We have not had any issues while using Evolve Security. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to have annual pentests performed by an outside entity. Using Evolve Security as our pentesters has resulted in our team being able to meet our compliance requirements with a minimal amount of effort. ### 41. Great knowledgeable team easy to work with. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** A real world opportunity to asses our security posture. Potentially uncovering areas we were unaware of or need more focus. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I have nothing negative to say about the service itself, except that we live in a place where this is even necessary. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Piece of mind for management and proof to our customers and vendors that we executing on security. ### 42. Excellent, easy to navigate platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike E. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** I quickly and easily share information on security projects and vulnerability mitigation with the team and project manager. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Took my coworker a day more than me to find the buttons from the previous platform, but he appreciated the improved navigation after the adjustment. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack facilitates the coordination of my team with the Evolve team, Evolve project manager, and me. ### 43. A Trusted Partner for End-to-End GRC Needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert H. | VP of Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Evolve's customer focus enables them to establish relationships that provide continuous value -- as opposed to "one and done" remediation work. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** That we didn't start working with them sooner! **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** They appear to be heavily investing in their advisory services as they continue to focus on delivering value to clients. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve Security improves your security posture through what they call "managed offense security." This includes continuous penetration testing, vulnerability management, application and cloud security validation and incident response services. We've partnered with them to successfully deliver additional GRC services to their clients through Apptega, particularly for assessments and remediation. ### 44. Fabulous upgrade! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg D. | IMS Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The new portal is much easier to use. It's a fabulous upgrade that is much more efficient and effective. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I've not found any downside to the new portal. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** This new tool helps us to organize our vulnerability assessments and is becoming an important part of our security program. ### 45. Top notch customer service from a trusted partner **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Customer service is top-notch. Every relationship manager we've worked with has been responsive, friendly, and knowledgeable. Sarah is highly organized and goes out of her way to make things easier for us. We never have to worry about deadlines being met because we know her team is on it. Their engineers are skilled and insightful without condescension, so engaging with them is a pleasure. Mostly we appreciate the partnership mentality; instead of being nickeled and dimed, we are supported as if Evolve were part of our team. It provides a lot of piece of mind knowing that Evolve has our back. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Nothing comes to mind at the moment, our experience has been very positive **Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:** I recommend talking to them about your security needs. I think you'll find the team very knowledgeable and a pleasure to work it. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evolve has performed our annual penetration testing for several years. They work with us on testing and remediation for all of our cloud based solutions used by thousands of frontline employees and consumers daily. ### 46. Very detailed and the people within Evolve are excellent to work with and very knowledgeable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Great summary and easy to read and understand **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Did not experience any dislike of the Darwin Attach **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is pointing out what we need to do based on the External and Internal tests they have performed. We see the benefits of the output of their tests. We will use them again. ### 47. Ease of use and great support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Ease of navigation and use. Ability to download .pdf files of reports. Able to export vulnerability/risk data for ease of presentation. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** No issues with Darwin at this time, happy with what we are provided. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin is providing a single location to store all of our current and historical security assessments, and is capable of exporting data to present to leadership. ### 48. Friendly and approachable staff with clear communication and expectations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** The data related to what will be tested, when, who by, and the results were clearly defined. Communication with engineers was clear and easy to follow. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Safari would not always load the data. The interface would render but not project data. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack provides us with a single source of truth around our security testing engagements, offering us excellent context per project. ### 49. Darwin Attack was a perfect fit for our company **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** Communication with myself ( as the IT Manager ) and our staff is very solid. Predictable, clear, concise and complete. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** I would like a little more realtime visibility into the progress of a campaign. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Darwin Attack is addressing our need to bring our end users into a more informed relationship with email and cybersecurity. ### 50. Easy open communication **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Evolve Security?** It facilitates easy collaboration amongst the team. **What do you dislike about Evolve Security?** Some notification links you receive in emails will not take you directly to the thread in question. **What problems is Evolve Security solving and how is that benefiting you?** Penetration testing - [View Evolve Security pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/evolve-security-evolve-security/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-23+10%3A58%3A17+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d055a1a2-c986-42ec-a9c9-e03ae9faec23&secure%5Btoken%5D=58e924b428ff61c07829190341557a2c8b34d0701bcdc1c78bf27015c7a8d7b7&format=llm_user) ## Evolve Security Features **Administration** - API / Integrations - Extensibility - Reporting and Analytics **Performance** - Issue Tracking - Detection Rate - False Positives - Automated Scans **Asset Management** - Asset Discovery - Shadow IT Detection - Change Management **Generative AI - Exposure Management Platforms** - Predictive Analytics - Automated Threat Detection **Analysis** - Issue Tracking - Reconnaissance - Vulnerability Scan **Network** - Compliance Testing - Perimeter Scanning - Configuration Monitoring **Monitoring** - Gap Analysis - Vulnerability Intelligence - Compliance Monitoring - Continuous Monitoring **Risk Identification and Assessment - Exposure Management Platforms** - Comprehensive Risk Assessment - Advanced Analytics and Reporting **Testing** - Command-Line Tools - Manual Testing - Test Automation - Performance and Reliability **Application** - Manual Application Testing - Static Code Analysis - Black Box Testing **Risk Management** - Risk-Prioritization - Reconnaissance - At-Risk Analysis - Threat Intelligence **Monitoring and Integration - Exposure Management Platforms** - Integration and Data Consolidation - Real-time Monitoring and Alerts **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Vulnerability Scanner** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance ## Top Evolve Security Alternatives - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (785 reviews) - [Scrut Automation](https://www.g2.com/products/scrut-automation/reviews) - 4.9/5.0 (1,298 reviews) - [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (369 reviews)