Top 19 Penetration Testing Companies in Chile (2026)

Executive Answer

Chile has a growing mix of local cybersecurity consultancies, regional specialists, and international penetration-testing providers. This guide compares 19 companies relevant to Chilean buyers, separating firms that publish a Chilean location from international or regional teams that serve Chile remotely. Each entry is based on the company's official website and covers what it publicly offers, its Chile relevance, and buying considerations. DeepStrike publishes this comparison and is included in it; entries are numbered for navigation, not ranked.

Comparing providers beyond Chile? Our worldwide list of penetration testing companies covers firms that deliver testing across regions.

Related Latin American guides: Costa Rica, Uruguay and Mexico.

Key Takeaways

• The strongest shortlist depends on whether you need a Chile-based team, an in-country office, or specialized remote expertise.
• DeepStrike, the publisher of this guide, is included as an international, remotely delivered option; this guide does not claim that DeepStrike has a Chile office.
• Chile's provider landscape is strongly Spanish-speaking at the service-discovery layer, so buyers should confirm language, contracting, and on-site requirements early.
• A credible penetration test should be scoped around business-critical assets, written authorization, rules of engagement, manual validation, useful reporting, remediation guidance, and retesting expectations.
• Chilean cybersecurity and privacy rules increase the importance of defensible security assurance, but penetration testing by itself does not prove legal or regulatory compliance.

Quick Comparison: Penetration Testing Companies Serving Chile

How We Selected the Best Penetration Testing Companies in Chile

Editorial disclosure: DeepStrike publishes this list and lists itself first; list order is not a quality ranking. The list is an editorial comparison based on the methodology described here, using desk research of each provider’s official website rather than hands-on testing of each provider. Placement should not be interpreted as an independent industry award or a universal market ranking.

We started with a research pool of roughly 40 organizations surfaced through Chile-focused provider research, local-language searches, and first-party service discovery, then favored providers with direct penetration-testing language and a defensible relationship to the Chilean market. In the November 2026 update we re-checked every company's official website and removed two providers: one without a verifiable official website, and one whose official website was unreachable and showed signs of compromise.

The geographic labels matter. Class A means the company's official site presents it as Chile-based or publishes a Chilean address. Class B means a provider based elsewhere that publishes a Chile office on its official site; in this update those are Software Testing Bureau and Vectus. Class C means the company can serve Chilean organizations, but we do not claim a Chile office. This prevents a common comparison-page error: treating market availability or secondary-directory locality as proof of first-party local presence.

We also avoided ratings, star scores, invented customer counts, and unsupported price ranges. The objective is to help buyers form a shortlist not to pretend there is a single universally correct vendor for every scope.

For a deeper view of what a mature engagement should contain, see DeepStrike's guide to penetration testing methodology.

A buyer evaluating application-focused scopes can also review web application penetration testing services.

1. DeepStrike: Application testing and remediation collaboration

Public offering: DeepStrike's penetration testing services describe human-led testing across applications, cloud environments, and infrastructure, supported by a findings and collaboration platform. Its public process covers planning, reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, controlled exploitation, reporting, and technical support. Published reports include reproduction steps, remediation guidance, and root-cause information; the proposal should define exact coverage and commercial terms.

Chile relevance: Founded in 2016, DeepStrike LLC is headquartered in Newark, Delaware, has 11–50 employees, and also publishes a business address in Dubai, UAE (IFZA Business Park). It delivers testing remotely for Chilean clients; define tester locations, permitted subcontracting, and data-handling restrictions in the engagement agreement.

Team certifications: OSCP, OSWE, OSEP, OSWP, GXPN, GWAPT, eCPPT, eMAPT, eWPT, CREST CPSA, CRTP, CRTE, and Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate, as shown on DeepStrike's services page.

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Buyer fit: Engineering teams that need application, cloud, or infrastructure testing with direct remediation collaboration.

2. KMJ Ciberseguridad: Santiago pentesting, red team, and awareness programs

Public offering: KMJ Ciberseguridad offers penetration testing in white, grey, and black box modes, network audits that simulate internal and external attacks, red team exercises, and risk assessments with prioritized action plans. It also runs a security awareness program with monthly talks, phishing simulations, and policy templates, and lists forensic analysis, regulatory compliance, and secure development as tailored services. The site advertises a 24/7 emergency contact.

Chile relevance: KMJ Ciberseguridad Ltda. lists its office at Agustinas 1022, Of. 1004, Santiago. Confirm the named testers, reporting language, and how evidence and personal data are handled in the agreement.

Official sources: https://kmj.cl/

Best fit: Chilean organizations that want local pentesting combined with an ongoing staff awareness program.

Distinctive in Chile: It pairs pentesting and red teaming with a recurring awareness program (monthly talks and phishing simulations) and advertises a 24/7 emergency line from central Santiago. Limitation to confirm: Reporting, retesting, and named credentials are not detailed; request a sample report and agree retest terms in writing.

3. Infinity SpA: Offensive security consultancy with two included retests

Public offering: Infinity SpA describes itself as an offensive security consultancy and lists web application, internal, perimeter, mobile, and wireless pentests, red team exercises, social engineering, source code audits, reverse engineering, network audits, hardening, and DoS resilience testing. It states that it follows OWASP, PTES, OSSTMM, and MITRE ATT&CK, delivers executive and technical reports with proofs of concept, and includes two retests and a certificate code that can be validated on its site.

Chile relevance: Infinity SpA is a Chilean company that says it has tested organizations in banking, mining, energy, automotive, and retail in Chile; its website does not publish a street address. Confirm the contracting entity, tester locations, and data-handling terms in the agreement.

Certifications: Infinity's site displays OSCP (Offensive Security), eCPPT (eLearnSecurity), and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification logos.

Official sources: https://infinityspa.cl/servicios-de-hacking-etico/; https://infinityspa.cl/

Best fit: Chilean organizations that want a focused offensive-security team and built-in remediation retesting.

Distinctive in Chile: It includes two retests and a certificate code that can be validated on its site, and says it has tested Chilean banking, mining, and energy organizations. Limitation to confirm: No street address is published, and it promotes an AI testing agent; confirm the contracting entity and how manual and automated work are split.

4. Hackanary: Chilean ethical hacking, red team, and DoS testing

Public offering: Hackanary offers external, internal, perimeter, web and mobile application, and Wi-Fi penetration tests, full red team exercises that include email and social engineering, and controlled DoS/DDoS resilience tests. It describes its testing as 70% manual and 30% automated, and states that each engagement includes executive and technical reports with proofs of concept, a results presentation, two retests, and a certificate code that clients can validate.

Chile relevance: Hackanary SpA presents itself as a Chilean cybersecurity company and states that it is a registered supplier on Chile's Mercado Público (ChileCompra) portal; its website does not publish a street address. Agree tester locations, DoS test limits, and data handling in the agreement.

Certifications: Hackanary states that its team holds OSCP, CEH Master, Burp Suite Professional, eJPT, eCPPT, and eWPTX credentials.

Official sources: https://ethicalhackers.cl/; https://ethicalhackers.cl/contacto-ethical-hacking/

Best fit: Chilean organizations, including public bodies buying through ChileCompra, that want hands-on pentesting with retests included.

Distinctive in Chile: It states it is a registered supplier on Mercado Público (ChileCompra), which simplifies purchasing for Chilean public bodies, and it publishes a 70/30 manual-to-automated split. Limitation to confirm: Its DoS/DDoS testing carries availability risk; set traffic limits and stop conditions, and confirm named testers for parallel scopes.

5. ITSec: Las Condes provider with pentesting, PTaaS, and red teaming

Public offering: ITSec S.A. offers web application and API pentesting, mobile app testing, cloud and infrastructure pentests on AWS, Azure, and GCP, code review, social engineering including physical tests, red team exercises, and pentesting as a service (PTaaS) for recurring testing. It describes a process of scoping, controlled attacks, executive and technical reports with reproduction steps, and remediation support with retests. It also sells blue and purple team services and a compliance framework for Chile's Cybersecurity Framework Law 21.663.

Chile relevance: ITSec lists its office at Avenida Andrés Bello 2777, piso 12, Las Condes, Santiago. Confirm which team performs offensive work and how evidence is stored in the agreement.

Official sources: https://www.itsec.cl/ethical-hacking; https://www.itsec.cl/

Best fit: Chilean enterprises that want one-off and recurring pentesting tied to Law 21.663 compliance work.

Distinctive in Chile: It sells a compliance framework for Law 21.663 alongside pentesting, PTaaS, and red teaming from Las Condes, useful for essential-service providers building ANCI-facing evidence. Limitation to confirm: A broad portfolio does not prove depth per asset type; request a sample report and agree what the report must evidence.

6. Software Testing Bureau: Security testing within a software QA firm

Public offering: Software Testing Bureau is a software testing company that says it has more than 25 years of experience. Alongside functional, performance, usability, and automated testing, its security testing service covers static code analysis (SAST) and penetration testing across networks, web platforms, and cloud environments, which it says follows OWASP guidance and ISO 27001.

Chile relevance: Its official site lists an office at Av. Pedro de Valdivia 273, Of. 314, Providencia, Santiago, alongside offices in Bogotá and Montevideo. Confirm which office's team performs the security work and where test data is stored.

Official sources: https://www.softwaretestingbureau.com/en/security-testing/; https://www.softwaretestingbureau.com/en/contact/

Best fit: Engineering organizations that want security testing delivered alongside functional and performance QA.

Distinctive in Chile: A QA firm with a Providencia office that puts security testing next to functional and performance testing, convenient for software teams already outsourcing QA. Limitation to confirm: Security is not its core business; ask about the security team’s size, credentials, and manual depth, plus reporting and retests.

7. Vectus: Argentine network and OT security integrator

Public offering: Vectus says it has worked with companies, governments, and industry since 2001 across telecommunications, networking, and cybersecurity. Its cybersecurity line lists awareness, red team, blue team, IAM, CyberSOC, and GRC services, and its OT practice covers ISA/IEC 62443 maturity assessments, cyber risk analysis, OT asset visibility, vulnerability management, and an OT SOC. It also runs training and a lab with Fortinet, Nozomi Networks, and Huawei equipment.

Chile relevance: Vectus is headquartered in Córdoba, Argentina, and its official site also lists a Chile office at Avenida Providencia 1650, Oficina 1506, Santiago. Its published case studies are Argentine public and private projects, so confirm which team delivers Chilean work, tester locations, time zones, and data handling in the agreement.

Official sources: https://vectus.la/

Best fit: Industrial and energy organizations that want OT security assessment and network work from one integrator.

Distinctive in Chile: An Argentine integrator with a Santiago office and an OT practice built on ISA/IEC 62443, relevant to Chilean energy and mining operators. Limitation to confirm: Penetration testing is not a standalone published service, and it resells security products; confirm scope, methodology, and independence of findings.

8. Cyberix: Santiago cybersecurity audits with ethical pentesting

Public offering: Cyberix offers cybersecurity audits that review infrastructure, access, users, and critical applications, include ethical pentesting of networks, websites, and APIs, and end with a prioritized action plan and a 6–12 month roadmap, working with NIST, CIS Controls, and ISO 27001. It also sells AI and automation projects, software development, and Power BI consulting.

Chile relevance: Cyberix lists Santiago, Chile, as its location and does not publish a street address. Confirm the assigned testers, scope, and data handling in the agreement.

Official sources: https://cyberix.cl/

Best fit: Small and mid-sized Chilean companies that want a security audit with pentesting and a practical improvement roadmap.

Distinctive in Chile: It wraps network, website, and API pentesting into an audit that ends with a 6–12 month roadmap, a format suited to smaller Chilean firms starting a program. Limitation to confirm: Pentesting is one part of a wider technology portfolio; confirm manual effort, report structure, and retesting.

9. Cyberhub: Compliance-led consultancy with Pentesting as a Service

Public offering: Cyberhub implements security and compliance strategies based on ISO 27001, NIST, and Chile's Law 21.663, including ISO/IEC 27001 implementation, awareness programs, tabletop simulations, and training for cybersecurity delegates. Its technical protection line covers pentesting, code, and infrastructure, and it offers a Pentesting as a Service model alongside one-off consulting, plus ethical hacking, ethical phishing, and internal audits.

Chile relevance: Cyberhub says it was founded in Chile and operates internationally through Cyber-Tower, with a parent company in Florida, United States. Confirm which entity contracts, where testers are located, and how data is handled.

Official sources: https://www.cyberhub.cl/es/

Best fit: Chilean organizations that want pentesting connected to an ISO 27001 or Law 21.663 compliance program.

Distinctive in Chile: It ties pentesting to Law 21.663 and ISO 27001 programs, including training for cybersecurity delegates, a role Law 21.663 asks Operators of Vital Importance to designate. Limitation to confirm: Its published case studies cover awareness and compliance, not testing; ask for testing references and PTaaS cadence and retest terms.

10. SecureLab: Incident response, pentesting, and red teaming

Public offering: SecureLab offers incident response and forensic analysis, penetration testing of applications, networks, and systems with reports that include findings, evidence, and a remediation plan, red team exercises, SOC and blue team services, Fortinet and network hardening, server hardening, cloud security reviews, OSINT, and ransomware recovery. It also builds private AI and Kubernetes platforms.

Chile relevance: SecureLab describes itself as a cybersecurity company in Chile serving Chile and Latin America; its website does not publish a street address. Confirm the contracting entity, tester locations, and data handling.

Official sources: https://securelab.cl/; https://securelab.cl/contacto

Best fit: Organizations that want pentesting from a provider that can also respond to incidents.

Distinctive in Chile: It combines pentesting and red teaming with incident response, forensics, and ransomware recovery for Chilean and Latin American clients. Limitation to confirm: If it also runs your defenses, agree how testing independence is preserved; retesting and tester credentials are not described.

11. Grep: Providencia IT services firm with ethical hacking

Public offering: Grep is an IT support and outsourcing firm that also offers ethical hacking and pentesting for Chilean companies: simulated attacks on networks, servers, Wi-Fi, firewalls, VPNs, and applications, web and API testing that follows the OWASP Top 10, and configuration reviews. It delivers an executive report for management and a technical report for IT.

Chile relevance: Grep lists its office at Av. Providencia 2640, oficina 703, Providencia, Santiago. Confirm the named testers and evidence-handling terms in the agreement.

Official sources: https://www.grep.cl/servicios/ethical-hacking.html; https://www.grep.cl/contacto.html

Best fit: Small and mid-sized Chilean companies that want pentesting from their existing IT support provider.

Distinctive in Chile: An existing IT support provider in Providencia that adds ethical hacking with separate executive and technical reports, convenient for SMBs that already outsource IT to it. Limitation to confirm: If Grep administers the systems under test, agree how its own findings will be reported; ask about the security team’s credentials.

12. CyDef: Las Condes security agency with pentesting and incident response

Public offering: CyDef offers penetration testing, ethical hacking, vulnerability assessment, OSINT, security code analysis integrated into development pipelines, incident response and forensics with 24/7 support, a virtual SOC, social engineering campaigns, and compliance consulting. It says its services are aligned with ISO/IEC 27001, NIST, and CIS Controls, and that ethical hacking includes executive and technical reports.

Chile relevance: CyDef lists its office at Manquehue Sur 520, Las Condes, Santiago. Confirm tester assignment and data handling in the agreement.

Official sources: https://cydef.cl/

Best fit: Chilean organizations that want testing, code analysis, and incident response from one agency.

Distinctive in Chile: A Las Condes agency that integrates code analysis into development pipelines and offers 24/7 incident response and a virtual SOC alongside testing. Limitation to confirm: Retesting is not described, and framework alignment is not a certification; request a sample report and tester credentials.

13. Asentic: Chilean consultancy with ethical hacking since 2010

Public offering: Asentic offers four service lines: cybersecurity advisory, ethical hacking and pentesting, secure systems administration, and blue team defense. It says the same team stays with a client from planning to follow-up, findings are prioritized with CVSS, a retest is included, and delivery includes executive and technical reports and a walkthrough. It also provides a free website scanning tool and continuous monitoring.

Chile relevance: Asentic says it has operated in Chile since 2010 and works remotely across Latin America; its website does not publish a street address. Confirm the contracting entity and data-handling terms.

Official sources: https://www.asentic.cl/; https://www.asentic.cl/contacto/

Best fit: Small and mid-sized organizations that want pentesting with a retest and continuity from the same team.

Distinctive in Chile: Operating in Chile since 2010, it keeps the same team from planning to follow-up and includes a retest and a report walkthrough. Limitation to confirm: Its free website scanner is automated; ensure the paid engagement is manual, and ask who will perform the work.

14. Vantis: Santiago boutique covering security, cloud, and networks

Public offering: Vantis describes itself as a Chilean boutique consultancy with five domains: cybersecurity management, multicloud, IT platforms, networks, and automation for small businesses. Its cybersecurity domain lists controlled intrusion testing (pentesting), SOC, Zero Trust, and NIST CSF 2.0 work, and the firm says its services are aligned with NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, ISO 22301, and Chile's framework law.

Chile relevance: Vantis presents itself as a Santiago-based boutique and offers services in Spanish and English; its homepage does not publish a street address. Confirm tester assignment and data handling in the agreement.

Official sources: https://vantis.cl/

Best fit: Small and mid-sized organizations that want pentesting alongside cloud, network, and platform work from one consultancy.

Distinctive in Chile: A bilingual Santiago boutique that aligns services to NIST CSF 2.0 and Chile’s framework law and offers pentesting with cloud and network work. Limitation to confirm: Pentesting is one of many services; confirm methodology, manual effort, and reporting depth, and scope the test separately from questionnaires.

15. Ethiko: Vitacura offensive security firm with a risk scanner

Public offering: Ethiko offers penetration testing of web applications, APIs, internal networks, and cloud environments following OWASP, PTES, and OSSTMM, plus ethical hacking, security audits, phishing simulations, hardening, OSINT, and CISO as a Service. It also provides a CyberRisk scanner that gives a free external exposure assessment.

Chile relevance: Ethiko lists its office at Av. Presidente Kennedy 7440, of. 701, Vitacura, Santiago. Confirm the named testers and data handling in the agreement.

Official sources: https://ethiko.cl/

Best fit: Chilean organizations that want offensive testing and a part-time CISO from the same provider.

Distinctive in Chile: A Vitacura firm that publishes OWASP, PTES, and OSSTMM as its methods and offers CISO as a Service alongside testing. Limitation to confirm: Retesting and report structure are not described, and its CyberRisk scanner is not a pentest; request a sample report.

16. Corvus: Providencia ethical hacking and security management

Public offering: Corvus offers penetration testing of web applications, web services, and APIs, external and internal network and infrastructure tests, mobile application tests, and social engineering with training and simulations. It also provides ISO 27001 gap analysis, cloud security audits, and security management consulting.

Chile relevance: Corvus lists its office at Monseñor Nuncio Sotero Sanz de Villalba 55, piso 6, Providencia, Santiago. Confirm the assigned testers and evidence handling in the agreement.

Official sources: https://corvus.cl/

Best fit: Chilean organizations that want pentesting and ISO 27001 readiness support from a local consultancy.

Distinctive in Chile: A Providencia consultancy that pairs web, API, network, and mobile testing with ISO 27001 gap analysis and cloud security audits. Limitation to confirm: Reporting, retest terms, and named pentest credentials are not detailed; ask which testers will be assigned.

17. TTPSEC: OT/ICS security engineering with ethical hacking and red team

Public offering: TTPSEC focuses on industrial OT/ICS security and also offers ethical hacking and red team services covering applications, APIs, cloud, networks, and Wi-Fi, attack-path validation, and red or purple team exercises. It delivers executive and technical reports with reproducible evidence and an agreed revalidation scope, and states that all testing requires written authorization and rules of engagement. Other services include ISO 27001 implementation, AI security, CISO services, and training.

Chile relevance: TTPSEC presents itself as a Chilean engineering firm working from Coquimbo and Santiago across Latin America; its site does not publish a street address. Confirm tester assignment and data handling in the agreement.

Official sources: https://www.ttpsec.cl/servicios/ethical-hacking-y-redteam; https://www.ttpsec.cl/

Best fit: Operators of critical infrastructure that need IT and OT security testing from one provider.

Distinctive in Chile: A Chilean OT/ICS engineering firm working from Coquimbo and Santiago, citing IEC 62443 and NIST SP 800-82 alongside IT red teaming. Limitation to confirm: OT testing carries operational risk; agree safety constraints and windows in writing, and ask who will perform the work.

18. Secmentis: International pentest firm with a Chile service page

Public offering: Secmentis offers external, internal, web application, mobile application, wireless, and physical penetration tests, social engineering, vulnerability assessments, DDoS stress testing, security hardening, and incident response. It says it combines manual and automated testing, delivers an executive summary and technical report, and quotes fixed project costs.

Chile relevance: Secmentis's Chile page says its penetration testing is available in Santiago and other Chilean cities and can be delivered remotely; it does not publish a Chilean office. Agree tester locations, time zones, language, and data handling in the agreement.

Certifications: Secmentis states that its team members individually hold credentials including CISA, CEH, and SANS GIAC.

Official sources: https://www.secmentis.com/chile/penetration-testing

Best fit: Organizations comfortable with remote cross-border delivery that want a wide range of pentest types.

Distinctive in Chile: An international firm with a dedicated Chile page that offers physical and wireless testing as well as fixed project quotes. Limitation to confirm: No Chilean office is published; plan travel for on-site work and confirm exclusions and whether retests are included.

19. Cytlas: Remote nearshore team with a Chile pentest page

Public offering: Cytlas offers penetration testing of web, mobile, and infrastructure targets following OWASP and NIST methods, alongside audits, ethical hacking, ISO 27001 and NIST consulting, software development, and managed IT. Its process runs from scoping and NDA through reconnaissance, controlled exploitation, and post-exploitation analysis to executive and technical reports, a results session, and remediation support with a verification test.

Chile relevance: Cytlas publishes a dedicated page for penetration testing in Chile and says it serves Chilean companies fully remotely; its listed office is in Panama City, Panama. Agree tester locations and data handling in the agreement.

Certifications: Cytlas states that its specialists hold CEH, OSCP, and CompTIA Security+ certifications.

Official sources: https://cytlastechnology.com/en/cybersecurity/penetration-testing/chile

Best fit: Small and mid-sized Chilean companies comfortable with remote, Spanish-speaking delivery from outside Chile.

Distinctive in Chile: A Panama-based nearshore team whose Chile page addresses Law 21.663, CMF requirements, and Law 21.719, and which delivers in Spanish fully remotely. Limitation to confirm: Treat the legal context on its page as marketing and verify it independently; confirm the size of the dedicated security team.

Chilean Companies vs International Penetration Testing Providers

A Chile-headquartered provider can simplify local contracting, Spanish-language workshops, stakeholder access, and on-site work. That can matter for internal-network assessments, physical or facility-dependent tests, or environments where procurement strongly prefers a local legal relationship.

An international provider can be attractive when the organization needs specialized application, cloud, API, mobile, identity, or red-team expertise that is not tied to geography. Remote delivery can also work well for internet-facing assets and cloud environments. The tradeoff is that buyers must confirm time zones, language, data handling, contracting jurisdiction, and any need for on-site activity.

Neither model is automatically better. A useful selection process starts with the test objective and operating constraints, then chooses the provider model that fits them.

How to Choose a Penetration Testing Company in Chile

1. Define the security objective before asking for quotes

Start with the risk question. Are you validating a new application before launch, testing an external attack surface, preparing evidence for a customer or assurance program, validating cloud controls, testing segmentation, or assessing a critical internal environment? The objective determines scope, tester skills, evidence, and price.

A clear scope also helps prevent a common procurement failure: comparing two proposals that use the same word “pentest” for materially different levels of effort.

2. Separate vulnerability assessment from penetration testing

Automated discovery is useful, but it is not a substitute for expert validation. A mature pentest should include human reasoning where the scope requires it: authentication and authorization testing, business-logic analysis, exploitability validation, privilege boundaries, chaining of weaknesses, and contextual judgment.

DeepStrike's guide to vulnerability assessment and penetration testing explains why the two activities answer different risk questions.

3. Match methodology to the asset type

A web application scope should address application-specific risks and authenticated workflows. A network test needs a different discovery and validation model. Mobile, API, cloud, identity, wireless, and OT/ICS scopes each introduce their own requirements.

Recognized technical resources can help buyers ask better questions. The OWASP Web Security Testing Guide is useful for web testing.

NIST SP 800-115 provides broader guidance on technical security testing and assessment.

For network-focused procurement, DeepStrike's network penetration testing guide provides additional scoping context.

4. Require written authorization and rules of engagement

A legitimate penetration test needs explicit authorization, named assets, agreed testing windows, emergency contacts, escalation rules, and clear boundaries. Third-party systems should not be tested merely because they connect to your environment; asset-owner permission matters.

The NIST technical guide to information security testing is a useful reference for structured security-testing planning.

5. Evaluate reporting before you buy

Ask for a sanitized report sample. A useful report should tell executives what matters, give engineers enough detail to remediate issues, distinguish validated risk from low-confidence signals, and explain scope limitations.

DeepStrike's guide to the penetration testing report covers the elements buyers should expect in a professional deliverable.

6. Define remediation and retesting in the contract

The first report is not the end of the process. Decide whether the provider will answer developer questions, review remediation plans, and retest corrected findings. Also clarify how long the retest window remains open and whether major architecture changes require a new assessment.

7. Confirm data handling and evidence retention

Pentest evidence can contain sensitive URLs, credentials, tokens, screenshots, source-code fragments, network details, or security-control information. Procurement should ask where this evidence is stored, who can access it, how it is transferred, how long it is retained, and how it is deleted.

8. Check the provider against your actual buying constraints

A technically excellent remote provider may be the wrong choice if your engagement requires on-site access in Santiago. A local provider may be the wrong choice if the project requires a niche cloud identity or complex API specialization it cannot demonstrate. Build a shortlist around the real constraints rather than geography alone.

For a broader vendor-selection framework, see how to choose a penetration testing company.

Questions to Ask Before Signing a Penetration Testing Contract

A practical procurement conversation should cover these questions:

• Which parts of the work are automated, and which are manually tested?
• Who will perform the engagement, and what experience do they have with our technology stack?
• Which assets, accounts, environments, and test windows are explicitly in scope?
• What actions are prohibited or require separate authorization?
• How are critical findings escalated during the test?
• What will the executive and technical reports contain?
• Can we review a sanitized report before signing?
• How are credentials and evidence stored, transferred, and deleted?
• Is remediation support included?
• What does retesting include, and how long is the retest window?
• Can the provider support Spanish-language workshops or on-site work if required?
• What happens if testing causes an unintended production effect?

How Much Does Penetration Testing Cost in Chile?

There is not enough defensible public evidence to publish a single “typical Chile price” for penetration testing. Some local providers discuss scope-dependent pricing, but isolated public examples are not a reliable market benchmark.

Cost usually changes with the number and type of targets, authentication roles, API complexity, network size, cloud accounts, mobile platforms, test depth, production constraints, retesting, on-site requirements, and special reporting or procurement requirements.

The best way to compare pricing is to give every shortlisted provider the same scope assumptions. Otherwise a lower quote may simply exclude manual testing, authenticated roles, API endpoints, cloud resources, or retesting that another proposal includes.

DeepStrike's penetration testing cost guide explains the major cost drivers without pretending that one number fits every environment.

Chile Cybersecurity and Regulatory Context

Chile's cybersecurity framework has materially evolved. Law No. 21.663 established the Cybersecurity Framework Law and created the Agencia Nacional de Ciberseguridad (ANCI). Buyers should use the current official record in the Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional when a procurement decision depends on statutory text or legal status.

Law 21.663 was published in the Diario Oficial on 8 April 2024. According to ANCI, organizations that provide essential services have had to report cybersecurity incidents since 1 March 2025. Article 9 sets the clock: an early alert to the national CSIRT within three hours of becoming aware of an incident, an update within 72 hours (24 hours for an Operator of Vital Importance whose service is affected), and a final report within 15 calendar days. A pentest that maps realistic attack paths helps teams prepare for those deadlines, but it is not itself a compliance requirement. Penalties are set in Article 40 of Law 21.663: fines of up to 5,000, 10,000, and 20,000 UTM for minor, serious, and very serious infringements, rising to 10,000, 20,000, and 40,000 UTM for Operators of Vital Importance.

Public bodies typically buy through ChileCompra’s Mercado Público platform, so being a registered supplier there matters for public-sector work. Chile has no national accreditation scheme for penetration testers that we could find, so Chilean buyers usually compare individual certifications such as OSCP and eCPPT, and the reporting and retest terms each firm publishes.

Implementation continued into 2026, including ANCI’s procedures to designate Operators of Vital Importance, which carry shorter reporting deadlines. The Diario Oficial should be checked for the current official publication record and implementation instruments.

Chile's Law No. 21.719 on personal-data protection was published in 2024 and, based on the current research record, is scheduled to enter into force on December 1, 2026. A government bill filed in September 2026 (Boletín 18.623-07) would move that date to December 1, 2027; check its status in the Diario Oficial before relying on either date. Organizations preparing for the new regime may use penetration testing as one technical assurance activity, but a pentest does not by itself establish privacy compliance.

Financial-sector organizations should also account for applicable information-security and cybersecurity requirements from the Comisión para el Mercado Financiero. For banks, CMF Chapter 20-10 of the Recopilación Actualizada de Normas (RAN), in force since 1 December 2020, sets minimum guidelines for information-security and cybersecurity management, including an inventory of critical cyber assets and processes to detect threats and vulnerabilities. Confirm which CMF rules apply to your entity type, and what testing evidence supervisors expect, before turning them into a test requirement.

The procurement principle is simple: use legal and regulatory requirements to inform scope, evidence, and risk priorities, but do not ask a penetration-testing company to “certify compliance” unless the relevant framework actually gives it that role.

Final Selection Guidance

For organizations that want human-led remote testing with remediation collaboration, DeepStrike, the publisher of this guide, is one option. For buyers that prioritize Chile-based delivery, most entries publish a Chilean location, including KMJ, ITSec, Grep, CyDef, Ethiko, and Corvus in Santiago, and TTPSEC in Coquimbo and Santiago. Software Testing Bureau and Vectus publish Santiago offices as part of multi-country firms (Vectus is headquartered in Argentina). Secmentis and Cytlas are international options: Secmentis advertises remote availability in Chile, and Cytlas publishes a dedicated Chile pentest page while listing its office in Panama City.

The rest of the list gives procurement teams additional Chile-relevant providers to compare. Do not choose on list position alone. Ask each company to respond to the same scope, rules of engagement, reporting requirements, evidence-handling terms, and retest expectations.

If you are still deciding how often the assessment should recur, DeepStrike's guide to penetration testing frequency provides a risk-based way to think about timing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best penetration testing company in Chile?

There is no universally best provider for every organization. DeepStrike publishes this guide and is included in it, but the right choice depends on scope, technical specialization, local or remote delivery needs, language, data handling, reporting, procurement requirements, and retesting expectations.

Do I need a penetration testing company based in Chile?

Not necessarily. A Chile-based provider can simplify local contracting, Spanish-language communication, and on-site work. A remote international provider may offer deeper specialization for application, API, cloud, mobile, or red-team scopes. Choose based on the engagement requirements rather than geography alone.

How often should a company in Chile perform penetration testing?

There is no safe universal frequency for every organization. Testing cadence should reflect material system changes, new releases, exposure, risk, customer or contractual commitments, sector requirements, and previous findings. Some organizations test annually; others test critical systems more frequently or after significant change.

What should a penetration test include?

A professional engagement should include written authorization, clear scope, rules of engagement, asset ownership confirmation, agreed test windows, expert validation, useful reporting, remediation guidance, and retesting terms. The exact technical test cases depend on whether the scope is web, API, mobile, cloud, network, identity, wireless, or another environment.

Can penetration testing for a Chilean company be performed remotely?

Yes, many application, API, cloud, external-network, and other internet-accessible scopes can be tested remotely when authorization and access are properly arranged. Internal, physical, wireless, or facility-dependent work may require local access or a different operating model.

Does penetration testing prove compliance with Chilean cybersecurity law?

No. Penetration testing can help validate technical controls and provide security-assurance evidence, but it does not by itself prove compliance with Chilean cybersecurity, privacy, financial-sector, or other regulatory requirements. Compliance depends on the complete set of applicable legal, governance, technical, and operational obligations.

Conclusion

Chile gives buyers a meaningful choice between local specialists, regional providers, and international penetration-testing teams. The strongest procurement process starts with scope and authorization, compares the same requirements across vendors, and evaluates the actual testing team and deliverables not just the brand name.

If your organization is evaluating web, API, mobile, cloud, network, continuous testing, or broader offensive-security scope, use DeepStrike's penetration-testing service page to start a technical scoping conversation.

About The Author

Mohammed Khalil is a Cybersecurity Architect at DeepStrike, specializing in advanced penetration testing and offensive security operations. With certifications including CISSP, OSCP, and OSWE, he has led numerous red team engagements, focusing on cloud security, application vulnerabilities, and adversary emulation. His work involves dissecting complex attack chains and developing resilient defense strategies for clients in the finance, healthcare, and technology sectors.