Network Penetration Testing for Biotech companies in New Orleans
Network Penetration Testing for Biotech Companies in New Orleans
Biotech companies in New Orleans and across Louisiana handle some of the most valuable data in the region—clinical research, genomic data, intellectual property, and protected health information. This makes local labs, research centers, and life sciences startups a prime target for ransomware groups, nation‑state actors, and financially motivated cybercriminals.
Common attacks such as phishing, malware, password attacks, SQL injection, and targeted ransomware are designed to quietly move through your network, reach sensitive systems (LIMS, EHR, lab automation, cloud workloads), and either steal or encrypt your data. The median reported cost of a breach in 2021 was $4.24M, and that does not include many unreported or undisclosed incidents—especially in research environments racing toward clinical milestones or regulatory submissions.
For biotech organizations working under HIPAA, FDA, NIH, and contractual data protection requirements, it is no longer enough to rely on firewalls and antivirus alone. Security controls must be regularly reviewed, tested, and improved to keep pace with modern attacks and increasingly connected lab environments.
Network penetration testing (net‑pen testing) is a controlled, ethical hacking exercise where security professionals simulate real‑world cyberattacks against your IT and OT infrastructure. For biotech, this can include corporate networks, cloud environments, VPN access, lab networks, remote research collaborators, and third‑party integrations. The objective is clear: find the weaknesses before a real attacker does.
The outcome of a well‑executed penetration test provides leadership with:
Clear visibility into how an attacker could move from a single compromised account or device to critical research data
Evidence of how well current IT security controls actually work in a real attack scenario
Prioritized remediation guidance aligned with risk, budget, and regulatory expectations
Support for regulatory, investor, and partner due diligence related to data protection and IT security
Biotech-Focused Network Penetration Testing in Louisiana
OCD Tech provides network penetration testing services to biotech and life sciences organizations in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana. Our clients include research institutes, clinical labs, CROs, medical device innovators, and early‑stage biotech startups that need to protect sensitive IP while staying agile.
Our team combines hands‑on penetration testing experience with a strong understanding of:
Regulated environments (HIPAA‑aligned environments, FDA‑relevant systems, clinical trial data)
Hybrid infrastructures spanning on‑prem, cloud, and specialized lab networks
Real‑world attacker techniques used against healthcare and biotech targets
The result is a practical security assessment that does more than list vulnerabilities. You get clear explanations, risk‑based prioritization, and specific remediation actions tailored to biotech operations in the New Orleans area—where downtime, delayed trials, or IP exposure are simply not an option.
Our Network Penetration Testing Methodology
OCD Tech follows a structured, repeatable methodology similar to what advanced threat actors use, but under controlled, authorized conditions. For biotech companies, this approach is adapted to respect safety, lab continuity, and regulatory constraints while still providing a realistic view of your exposure.
Our network penetration testing typically includes:
Passive Reconnaissance – Quietly collecting information about your organization from public sources and exposed services, identifying what an attacker can learn before ever touching your systems.
Active Reconnaissance – Safely scanning and probing your external and internal network to discover live systems, open ports, and potential entry points, including VPNs, remote access, and cloud assets.
Social Engineering (where authorized) – Testing how well your staff, scientists, and support teams resist phishing and impersonation attacks commonly used to gain initial access to biotech environments.
Exploitation – Attempting to leverage discovered vulnerabilities or weak configurations to gain access to systems, applications, or lab‑adjacent environments, always within an agreed scope.
Post‑Exploitation – Assessing what an attacker could realistically do after gaining a foothold: access to research shares, production systems, or cloud data stores.
Privilege Escalation – Testing whether a low‑level account or compromised device can be used to obtain administrator or domain‑level control, which is often how full environment compromise occurs.
Lateral Movement – Evaluating how easily an attacker could move from office IT into lab networks, file servers, or cloud environments used for research and analytics.
Maintaining Access – Demonstrating how adversaries could persist in your environment (within agreed rules) to show the importance of proper detection and response capabilities.
Covering Tracks – Reviewing how attackers might attempt to hide their activity, and how your logging, monitoring, and Blue Team capabilities can detect or prevent that.
Reporting & Executive Briefing – Delivering a clear, prioritized report that includes non‑technical summaries for leadership, technical detail for IT and security teams, and actionable remediation steps that align with biotech operational needs.
Where appropriate, we can align testing with broader Red Team, Blue Team, or Purple Team exercises to help your internal teams strengthen both offense and defense in a realistic, but controlled, scenario.
National Penetration Testing Reach
Although we maintain a strong presence in New Orleans and throughout Louisiana, OCD Tech also provides network penetration testing and IT security assessments to organizations across the United States, including:
This nationwide experience allows us to bring best practices from leading biotech hubs back to New Orleans and the broader Gulf Coast region.
Contact Our Louisiana Network Penetration Testing Consultants
OCD Tech provides network penetration testing, ethical hacking, and cybersecurity consulting to biotech and life sciences organizations in New Orleans and across Louisiana. If you want to understand how a real attacker could target your research, data, and critical systems—and how to stop them—our team can help.
If you are interested in learning how we can assist your company with a biotech‑focused network penetration test, complete the form below and a team member will follow up with you shortly.
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