Cyber defense and threat intelligence for federal agencies
CriticalSolutions is a 11–50 person federal cybersecurity firm built around hands-on defense work: vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, threat intelligence, and incident response across Cisco, Juniper, and Brocade infrastructure. The hiring mix (4 security roles, 1 engineering) and active projects (malware analysis, compliance monitoring, multivendor routing) signal a team scaling detection and response capabilities rather than platform development. A stated need for senior engineering talent suggests they're hitting a bottleneck in operationalizing their security stack.
CriticalSolutions provides cyber defense and threat-intelligence services to U.S. federal government agencies and their contractors. Founded in 2011 and based in Pasadena, Maryland, the firm operates as a self-owned small business specializing in computer network defense, security assessments, penetration testing, and compliance monitoring. Work spans infrastructure assessment (host and network vulnerability scans), malware analysis and artifact capture, identity and access management integration, and multivendor routing design. The team uses standard open-source and commercial tools—Wireshark, Nessus, Tenable.io, Python, PowerShell, and enterprise routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, IPsec)—to support federal clients navigating evolving threat landscapes.
Wireshark, Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, C, C++, Nessus, Tenable.io, Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, IPsec, Active Directory, DNS, and Public Key Infrastructure.
Computer network defense, security assessments, penetration testing, cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability scanning (host and network), malware analysis, identity and access management integration, and compliance monitoring for federal agencies.
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