AppAcuity, Inc.

AppAcuity, Inc.

Speciality: Continuous Cloud Penetration Testing

Grand Rapids, United States 9 employees
Visit Website View on LinkedIn
[01] About

Private technology company specializing in graph-based attack path management and AWS environment visualization; offers SaaS exposure assessment and AI-powered penetration testing services with automated daily testing and expert analysis; 7 employees with 80% YoY growth; headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, founded in 2019.

AppAcuity is a SaaS-based Exposure Assessment Platform that analyzes, models and visualizes your AWS environment to pro-actively pinpoint where and how cloud assets are most vulnerable to attack. AppAcuity's intuitive views highlight mis-configurations and overly-permissive settings and our unique Adversarial Exposure Validation scans identify dangerous combinations of unintended exposure paths and critical vulnerabilities that need to be prioritized for remediation. Our mission is to help customers: - Visualize how attackers see their AWS environment - Identify where their cloud assets are most exposed to attack - Pinpoint the specific paths attackers may take to compromise these assets - Prioritize which threats to mitigate first
[02] Services
Penetration Testing
Exposure Assessment
Attack Path Management
Adversarial Exposure Validation
[03] Certifications
SOC 2 Type II

SOC 2 Type II Certification


Origin


SOC 2 (Service Organization Control 2) was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in 2011 as part of their Service Organization Control reporting framework. It was created to address the growing need for standardized security and privacy assurance as more organizations began storing data in the cloud and relying on third-party service providers. The certification was designed to evaluate how well service organizations manage customer data based on five "Trust Services Criteria": security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Type II specifically requires organizations to demonstrate these controls over a minimum period of time (typically 3-12 months), rather than just at a single point in time.


Industry Value


SOC 2 Type II certification is highly valued because it provides independent verification that a company has implemented and maintained robust security controls over an extended period. For service providers, achieving this certification demonstrates credibility and commitment to data protection, often becoming a competitive differentiator and a prerequisite for winning enterprise clients. Many organizations, particularly in healthcare, finance, and technology sectors, require their vendors to be SOC 2 Type II compliant before sharing sensitive data or establishing business relationships. The certification gives customers confidence that their service providers have been audited by qualified third parties and meet industry-recognized standards for protecting information assets.