Washington-based · Veteran-owned
About Praeven Security.
Praeven Security LLC is a Washington-based, veteran-owned company providing counterintelligence focused cybersecurity. We bring security leadership, outside exposure review, and workforce education together so organizations can act on what attackers would use.
Our team
Prepare before the incident.
Praeven helps organizations identify how attackers can exploit people, public information, and technology, then act on the result.
Our work connects counterintelligence, public exposure, workforce education, and program decisions.
Prepare before the event
The name is the method.
- prae
- before
- venire
- to come
- praevenire
- to anticipate, to forestall
prae·ven | PRAY-ven | IPA /ˈpreɪvɛn/ | rhymes with raven
How we work
Start with the decision.
Praeven starts with the decision you need to make, then shows what an attacker could use and why the recommendation matters.
That could mean closing an exposed service, changing how a payment request gets verified, or making it easier to report a suspicious message.
Operating principles
Know the adversary. Show the evidence. Change the habit.
Start with the objective
What does the attacker want, what can they reach, and what would make their request believable?
Follow the evidence
Show the exposed system, the public clue, or the tested path behind a finding. Do not ask the business to act on a scary number alone.
Make reporting work
Teach people to recognize and verify an approach. Thank them when they report it, then tell them what happened.
Check the change
Put an owner behind the fix and verify that the same path is harder to use next time.
Tell us what you want to improve.
We’ll discuss your public footprint, the audience you need to prepare, or the security decision in front of you.
Prepare. Anticipate. Protect.