Venkata Ramana Pullagoora
Founder & CEO
26+ years in IT across quality engineering and delivery leadership. Founded VirtuesTech in 2020.
Engineering-led cybersecurity
Quality you can ship.Security you can prove.
VirtuesTech helps technology organizations discover, validate, and remediate risk across the products they build and the estates they run. Offensive security, exposure management, security operations, and quality engineering work as one accountable engagement.
We don’t stop at finding the problem. We help prove it, fix it, test the fix, and keep watching for what changes next.
Our operating model: validate, secure, monitor
Functional, API, performance, accessibility
Senior-led pentesting and red teaming
24/7 detection and response
RELEASE SHIPPEDproven on retest
Three practices, one loop: validation finds it, offense proves it, and monitoring watches for it.
Select a stage to see what it means for your team, and the proof behind it.
Why security teams engage VirtuesTech
Four questions every security program has to answer
Tools flag findings and reports pile up, yet the questions the board actually asks stay open. Each of our security practices exists to close one of them, with evidence.
01
What can be attacked?
Continuous discovery and validation of your external attack surface, prioritized by what is actually exploitable rather than what a scanner flagged.
Exposure Management→02What can an attacker actually do?
Penetration testing and red teaming that demonstrate real impact, with reproduction steps your engineers can rerun.
Offensive Security→03Will our defenses detect it?
Detection and response on the platform our own SOC operates, judged on a 30-day pilot against your own telemetry.
Managed Security→04Did the fix actually work?
Every remediation is verified on retest and the report updated to say so. A finding is closed when the fix is proven, and a fix is not a claim, it is a result.
Security Validation→The market signal
AI is accelerating delivery. Assurance has to accelerate with it.
87%
of organizations identify AI-related vulnerabilities as the fastest-growing cyber risk
World Economic Forum, Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026
37% → 64%
growth in organizations assessing the security of their AI
World Economic Forum, Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026
33% → 39%
growth in organizations using managed security services
Fortra, State of Cybersecurity Survey 2025
89% vs 15%
are piloting GenAI-augmented quality engineering, yet few have reached enterprise scale
World Quality Report 2025-26
Published industry research, cited as market context. Our own numbers are the ones on the trust page, and each has evidence behind it.
Cybersecurity
Security work built on engineering depth
We test and attack software the way we build it. Findings are demonstrated, ranked by real exploitability, and verified fixed on retest, whether the target is an application, an API, a cloud estate, or the AI feature you shipped last quarter.
Exposure Management
Know what can be attacked, continuously
An annual test describes one day. Your attack surface changes every week. Continuous exposure management discovers what you have, validates what is actually exploitable, and re-checks what changed, on VirtueThreatX, the exposure platform we built and operate.
Managed Security
Detection and response, judged on your own telemetry
Our SOC runs on VirtueShieldX, the security operations platform we build and operate in production. A 30-day pilot connects your telemetry and lets you judge the detections before you commit to anything.
Quality Engineering
The engineering depth behind the security work
We came up through quality engineering, and it shows in how we attack. Test automation, performance, API, and accessibility engineering keep releases reliable, and they give security findings somewhere to live: a proven exploit becomes a regression test your pipeline runs forever.
The Assurance Loop
A finding is not finished when it is reported
Most engagements end at the PDF. Ours are built so a proven finding keeps working: the exploit becomes a regression test, its indicators become detection content, and the fix is verified on retest. Security and quality engineering under one roof is what makes the loop possible.
Offensive security
A pentest or red-team operation runs against the real system.
Proven finding
Impact is demonstrated with evidence and reproduction steps, never asserted from a scanner result.
Remediation
Your team fixes it, with our engineers available while they do.
Security regression test
The exploit becomes a permanent automated test in your suite.
Detection content
Its indicators become detection rules, and the SOC watches for the pattern anywhere in the estate.
Retest
The fix is verified against the original exploit and the report is updated to say so.
Continuous assurance
The finding can no longer silently return. The next engagement starts from a stronger baseline.
Proprietary platforms
Platforms we build and run
Three products strengthen how the services are delivered. Each runs in production, operated by the same engineers who deliver client work.
Continuous Threat Exposure Management
VirtueThreatX
Continuous threat exposure management that scopes, discovers, prioritizes, validates, and mobilizes. Every finding is validated as exploitable before it reaches you, with instant, scheduled, or continuous scanning across web, API, network, code, mobile, cloud, container, identity, and AI/LLM, so your engineers' remediation time goes to proven risk.
Scope → Discover → Prioritize → Validate → Mobilize
AI-Enabled Security Operations
VirtueShieldX
AI-driven detection built on 2,250+ MITRE ATT&CK-mapped rules, behavioral analytics, and autonomous triage. Analysts supervise every consequential decision, so what reaches your team is a judged incident rather than an alert queue.
Detect → Investigate → Prioritize → Respond → Learn
AI-Driven Quality Engineering
VirtueATLAS
AI-assisted test authoring and self-healing automation that validates, executes, and learns, integrated with Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Jira, keeping release evidence current without a sprint spent on test repair.
Design → Generate → Execute → Analyze → Learn → Improve
Organizations we’ve delivered for, from funded startups to enterprise platforms
Proof
Real findings, real clients
SaaS AI product · API VAPT
Prompt injection in an AI endpoint
An AI rewrite endpoint took user input straight into the model prompt. We found the injection and two file-upload bypasses, all remediated and verified clean on retest.
Web application VAPT
JWT “none”-algorithm bypass
Full authentication bypass via unsigned JWTs, a public S3 bucket, and role-based access-control gaps, found, reported, and verified fixed on retest.
API security program
300+ APIs assessed
A structured assessment across 300+ endpoints: authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and injection classes, with findings ranked by exploitability.
In their words
“I have consistently witnessed their deep understanding of cybersecurity, timely delivery, and effective methodologies over three years of working together. I wholeheartedly recommend them for organizations seeking top-tier penetration testing services.”
Rajasekhara SaidamInformation Security Officer, HackerEarthPenetration Testing“VirtuesTech team did a great job with our cyber security project. We especially enjoyed their reliability, communication, and overall technical expertise.”
Jonathan AndrewsCEO, Weston InfoSecCybersecurity“VirtuesTech have been an invaluable addition to our team. They are a core part of our network administration foundation and security testing, and we are grateful to have them.”
Damon DeCrescenzoCEO, The Credit ProsSecurity TestingJudge our work before you talk to us
Read a real finding from our redacted sample report right now, no email needed; the complete sample (findings, severity model, and remediation guidance) downloads after a quick email verification.
Industries
The sectors we work in
Every sector fails differently. Here is the engineering challenge we’re built for in each.
- FinTech & BankingThe regulator's letter sets the deadline
- Healthcare & TelemedicineThe patient-data question decides the deal
- InsuranceExaminers find the seams first
- SaaS & AI ProductsYour customer's security review now asks about the AI
- E-commerce & RetailPeak day doesn't grant extensions
- AutomotiveAt fleet scale, a defect becomes a campaign
- EdTechProcurement reads before the pilot runs
- Crypto & Digital AssetsNo chargebacks, no second chances
- Energy & UtilitiesThe storm and the attacker arrive unannounced
- IoT & Smart DevicesShip hardware that can't be hotfixed
- Media & EntertainmentLaunch night is live to everyone at once
How we deliver
Four steps, the same governance at any scale
- 01
Scope
The engineers who will do the work define targets, depth, and rules of engagement with you. What we quote is what we test.
- 02
Deliver
Senior-led execution with weekly contact. Critical findings move the day they are proven, never held for the report.
- 03
Prove
Every finding is demonstrated with evidence and reproduction steps, ranked by real exploitability rather than scanner severity.
- 04
Verify & Transfer
Fixes are verified on retest, the report is updated to say so, and the suites, detections, and know-how transfer to your team.
The full engagement methodology, phase by phase, is published at /methodology/.
Since 2020
Independent since 2020, and the work compounds
Founded in Hyderabad in 2020, delivering from hubs in Hyderabad and Frisco, Texas. The engagements since then built the methodology, the evidence discipline, and three platforms we now operate in production. We don’t build what we test, and we don’t resell what we recommend.
Leadership
The people accountable for the work
Hemanth Kumar KV
Business Advisor
Close to 20 years in IT delivery and product strategy across EdTech, fintech, blockchain, and insurance.
Due diligence
Facts you can verify before the first call
The numbers, the entity records, and the evidence register behind every claim on this site are maintained on one page. See the full company facts.
Published methodology
Testing aligned to the OWASP Testing Guide, PTES, and NIST SP 800-115, with retest included as standard, so the report your auditor reads already shows the fixes verified.
How we deliver →Engagement governance
Every engagement runs under a mutual NDA and is delivered by background-checked engineers. The people who scope the work run it.
Company facts →Tell us what you’re trying to ship, or what you’re trying to protect.
You’ll talk to an engineer, not an autoresponder, typically within one business day.