Fortress Information Security reviews

Management has no vision besides getting more and more clients. They can not manage the current work load, they basically micromanage everything. Not sure how the clients are still satisfied with the quality of these assessments as they are just rushed out and really provide no value. They have moved to hiring cheap talent (college kids) to actually perform assessments with the goal of getting rid of all senior assessors who cost more. There is no career advancement opportunities. From day 1 you are on your own, there is no training and ALL documentation is severely out dated. There is no actual process documented. Team members are encouraged to speak up on weekly team calls but then are chastised if they say anything negative about process. The turn over here is astronomical, within the last 6 months there are all new team members. All assessors are actually miserable due to the culture.

Working at Fortress has a long list of cons, for one the entry level positions are severely underpaid. The tasks you do are whatever they need for which ever company they are trying to secure. Mostly research, spreadsheet work, and writing reports. No Penetration testing what so ever, basically a very lowly paid googler and report writer. All of their tests are non intrusive and they don't really have a software or anything to work. Be careful of this positon if you have a decent tech degree like IT or such. You will not being doing anything related to technology really. They love you if you just google and spreadsheet for 8 hours a day, for which ever client they are talking with.