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Evolve Security Reviews & Product Details

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.

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Evolve Security

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Evolve Security Community

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English

Product Description

Darwin Attack® is a real-time penetration testing platform developed by Evolve Security, designed to enhance the efficiency and collaboration of security information within organizations. By integrating data management, communication, and reporting functionalities, Darwin Attack® enables proactive security measures, thereby improving compliance and reducing risk. The platform allows for continuous monitoring and immediate identification of vulnerabilities, facilitating prompt remediation actions to safeguard the organization's digital assets. Key Features and Functionality: - Real-Time Security Feed: Provides live updates on vulnerabilities and testing progress, allowing organizations to initiate remediation without waiting for final reports. - Comprehensive Repository: Serves as a centralized database for research, vulnerability details, compliance requirements, and remediation recommendations. - Collaborative Platform: Enables direct communication between clients and Evolve Security's team, fostering efficient discussions on findings and guidance. - Management and Tracking Tools: Offers functionalities to monitor testing results, track vulnerabilities, and manage remediation efforts effectively. - Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with tools like ServiceNow®, JIRA, Zendesk, Tenable, Slack, and Teams to streamline coordination and resolution processes. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Darwin Attack® addresses the challenge of managing and mitigating cybersecurity threats by providing a unified platform that combines real-time penetration testing with collaborative tools. This integration empowers organizations to proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing their security posture and compliance. By offering immediate insights and facilitating efficient communication, Darwin Attack® reduces the time and resources required to address security risks, ultimately minimizing the likelihood of successful cyberattacks.

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Evolve Security Demo - Darwin Attack® Live Attack Feed

Our patent pending live attack feed allows clients to receive immediate updates as the team discovers key vulnerabilities and relevant information. Additionally, clients can communicate directly with their Evolve Security engagement team through the feed, discussing findings or asking for clarifi...

Evolve Security Demo - Vulnerability Nests™ by Risk and Status

The Nests™ section of the Darwin Attack platform is a feature that provides clients with an organized view of vulnerabilities discovered during their penetration testing or vulnerability scanning. The section categorizes vulnerabilities by their risk level and status, allowing clients to prioriti...

Evolve Security Demo - Vulnerabilities by Risk and Status

The Vulns section categorizes vulnerabilities based on their risk level and status, providing clients with an easy-to-understand overview of their cybersecurity posture. Clients can track the status of each vulnerability and prioritize remediation efforts based on the severity of the vulnerabilit...

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Erick M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/6/2025

"Evolve Security Cloud Assessment - 5 Star"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Evolve Security?

There are no downsides to using Evolve Security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joseph M.

Network Administrator & IT Security Officer

Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/6/2025

"A wonderful provider that finds actual problems and just doesn't placate you."

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rob T.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/6/2025

"Evolve Security - Using attack techniques in an innovative way w/ highly responsive team members"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

G .

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/6/2025

"Finally, a Scalable Cyber Model for Tribes!"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Blake S.

Senior Security Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/7/2025

"Evolve - Internal/External Network Penetration Testing Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Evolve Security?

I really enjoyed the attitudes of their technical teams and working with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Evolve Security:

They are most adept at pentesting and technical services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Manufacturing

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/6/2025

"Evolve Security PenTesting"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hank H.

Information Security Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/17/2024

"Excellent service"

5/5

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Evolve Security?

Honestly, I have no issues with them this year. Everything went smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bill C.

COO

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/31/2024

"The teams and the software were a good solution for our penetration testing needs"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Biotechnology

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/19/2024

"Evolve has assisted us in detecting and eliminating threats to our network."

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Calvin M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/8/2024

"Keeping Our Cloud Secure"

4.5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Evolve Security?

Nothing the product works and provides great reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.