Penetration Testing · Red Team · esports Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity services. Born in esports. Built for the modern threat landscape.
Uncover vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Validate your defenses against today's threats. Receive a cryptographically-signed audit chain that proves every step of the engagement to your auditors.
We were doing this in 2010 to defend our Halo streams.
Streaming live esports from a residential house meant constant DDoS attacks, attempted server reboots, and account-hijack attempts on our pro players. Rick & Arek hacked together a T1 line and built defenses by hand. That instinct for protecting infrastructure became the company you're looking at now.
Penetration testing services
Custom-scoped engagements. Quote on request — no off-the-shelf packages, no surprise fees.
External Network Pen Testing
Black-box assault on your perimeter. We attack you the way attackers do.
Internal Pen Testing
Assume-breach simulation. Test how far an insider — or a foothold — can move.
Web Application Testing
OWASP-aligned. Authentication, injection, business-logic flaws, IDOR, the whole catalog.
Mobile Application Security
iOS + Android. Static + dynamic analysis. API + storage + transport.
Cloud Security Audit
AWS, Azure, GCP. IAM misconfigurations, exposed buckets, drifted policies.
Network & Wireless (the LAN)
Wired + wireless audits. Yes, the literal LAN that gives us our name.
Social Engineering
Phishing campaigns, vishing, physical-pretext. Train your humans the same way you train your firewalls.
Red Team Engagement
Full adversarial simulation. Goal-based. Stealth-focused. We don't tell defense we're coming.
Specialized vertical
esports Cybersecurity
Esports orgs and game studios get attacked constantly — but most pen-test firms don't understand the gaming/streaming/anti-cheat tech stack. TLN does. We're the only firm with authentic credibility in both worlds.
Anti-cheat infrastructure audits
For game studios and tournament operators.
Tournament network defense
DDoS protection, integrity, broadcast security.
Streamer & player account security
Account-hijack prevention, 2FA hardening, social-engineering training for talent.
Game backend pen testing
API security, anti-tampering, server-side authority validation.
Methodology — six phases
Every engagement runs the same disciplined arc. AI-augmented in the heavy-lift phases. Human-led in the high-judgment phases.
Scope & Threat Model
We map your attack surface to your business risk. Not every asset deserves the same depth.
Reconnaissance
Passive + active. We learn your tech stack the way an adversary would — without alerting you.
Exploitation
Manual testing led by humans, augmented by our AI compute fabric for coverage scaling.
Post-Exploitation
What does a foothold actually buy an attacker in YOUR environment? We measure blast radius.
Reporting & Audit Chain
Executive + technical report. Plus a cryptographically-signed provenance chain proving exactly what was tested when, on which hardware.
Remediation Support
We don't drop a PDF and disappear. Retests included. Your team gets human help.
What you receive
Three artifacts — for three audiences.
Executive Report
For your board + leadership. Risk in business terms. Investment priorities. No CVSS jargon.
Technical Findings
For your engineering + security team. Reproducible steps, severity, exploitability, remediation guidance. Attached PoCs where safe.
Industry-first
QSurface Provenance Chain
For your auditors + compliance team. Cryptographically-signed log of every step of the engagement: which engineer, what hardware, when, what they touched, what they found. Verifiable end-to-end.
Why TLN
Born in esports 2008
Tyler "Ninja" Blevins lived in our house. We hacked together a T1 line and defended live Halo streams from constant DDoS attempts. Cybersecurity wasn't a pivot — it's how we started.
AI-augmented delivery
Our compute fabric runs the recon and coverage scaling so our human pen testers spend their time on the high-value exploitation work — not grinding scope.
Cryptographic audit chain
Every engagement ships with a QSurface provenance chain. Auditors can verify exactly which engineer touched what hardware at what second. Industry-first transparency.
esports cybersecurity specialty
The only pen-test firm born inside a competitive esports house. Anti-cheat, tournament networks, streamer security — we speak the language.
Charity-tied engagements
Every TLN contract supports Video Game Palooza (501c3) — 2,000+ Hoosiers trained in IT/Cybersecurity/Coding/AI since 2018. Hire us, lift the next generation.
17 years of tech lineage
From the original LAN parties to a 45-blade modern compute fabric. Same team. Same instincts. Better tools.
Customer engagements
Case studies will populate as our first customer engagements complete. In the meantime — see our 17-year track record in adjacent technology and esports work.
Ready for a quote?
Tell us your scope. We respond within one business day with a custom proposal — including the QSurface audit-chain artifact your auditors will love.