We bring the security practices that protect government and defense networks to everyone — from individuals and home networks to small businesses, enterprises, and public-sector agencies. Delivered entirely as software and services — no black boxes you can't audit.
Choose your path — or just grab a free tool and start experimenting.
Check your email, domain, devices, and more — for free, no account, no commitment. Real checks that show you exactly where you stand, in plain English, with the fixes for anything they find.
Answer a few plain-English questions about how your business runs today. You'll get a posture score, the gaps that matter most, and a clear picture of where we can help — in about two minutes. Nothing is installed, and nothing leaves your browser.
Personal, plain-English help securing your devices, home network, email, and accounts — I fix what the free tools turn up.
See home services →Done-for-you security without hiring a team — real protection, fixed scope.
See small-business offerings →Detection engineering, compliance, the professional platform, and custom builds.
See enterprise offerings →Compliance, validation, and engineering for agencies — available for subcontracting and partnership.
See public-sector offerings →The same defense-grade expertise, brought down to your personal devices, home network, and accounts. When a free tool turns up something you’d rather not tackle yourself, I’ll fix it properly — and confirm it’s done right.
If you own a domain, attackers can spoof it to send scam email in your name. I’ll set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correctly so that stops — the same fix I do for family businesses and local clients.
Your router, Wi-Fi, and smart-home devices are the front door to everything. I’ll lock them down — close what shouldn’t be exposed, harden the settings, and separate the risky devices from the ones that matter.
Worried your computer’s been compromised, or just want it properly protected? I’ll harden your devices, check for signs of trouble, and set up real protection that keeps working after I’m gone.
Been in a breach, or reusing passwords you know you shouldn’t? I’ll help you secure your accounts, set up a password manager and two-factor authentication, and clean up the exposure.
The scams targeting you and your family are getting better. I’ll help you (and the less-technical folks in your life) learn to spot them, and build defenses so one bad click doesn’t turn into a real problem.
Simple, fair pricing — no surprise bills. Start with a $75 consultation: I confirm exactly what’s wrong and what it takes to fix, and that fee credits in full toward the work. A quick problem might be solved right there. A bigger one gets an honest estimate before I touch anything, and you only pay for actual working time.
Done-for-you, fixed-scope. We set it up, tune it, and keep watch — so you get real protection without hiring a team.
A clear-eyed look at where your security actually stands — network, endpoints, email, patching, and configuration. You get a prioritized findings report: the real risks, ranked by what to fix first. From there you decide — fix it in-house, or bring me in to remediate. No pressure, your call.
Detection and alerting, built right. I’ll stand up and tune a SOC or SIEM around your environment so real threats stand out and the noise doesn’t — then hand you the keys to run it yourself. Prefer ongoing eyes on your network? That’s available as a scoped engagement.
When something goes wrong, improvising is the worst plan. I’ll build a custom incident-response playbook that fits how your business actually works — then run tabletop exercises so your team has practiced it before they need it.
Get audit-ready without drowning in paperwork. Built around the same rigor that governs federal systems — NIST 800-53, RMF, and government-adjacent frameworks — I’ll map the requirements, find the gaps, and give you a clear path to close them.
Senior security leadership without the full-time cost. On-call guidance for the decisions that matter — roadmap, vendors, priorities, risk calls — so you’ve got an experienced defender in your corner when you need one.
Done-with-you engagements, the professional platform, and custom builds that fit your existing SOC.
Stand up or sharpen a detection program that actually holds. I’ll build ATT&CK-mapped detections against your real telemetry, tune out the noise, and integrate it with your existing SOC — so your coverage is measured, not assumed.
Proof, not guesswork. I run real adversary techniques against your live detection stack and hand you a scored report of exactly what you caught, what you missed, and where the gaps are — the same emulate-and-score methodology built into the BXB Platform.
Compliance that survives an audit. Built on federal-grade rigor — NIST 800-53, RMF, NIST CSF, and CMMC — I’ll map your requirements to real controls, document the evidence, and give you a program that holds up when someone checks.
Senior security expertise working alongside your team, on your priorities. Roadmap, architecture calls, detection strategy, risk decisions — an experienced defender embedded where it matters, without adding headcount.
Bespoke security tooling shaped to your environment — connectors, detection content, automation, or purpose-built tools. If the off-the-shelf option doesn’t fit how you actually operate, I’ll build what does.
Proof your defenses actually work — four engines that emulate attacks, contain them, track coverage over time, and score it. Community through Enterprise, with twice-yearly ATT&CK-alignment updates.
One platform, four engines. Emulate real adversary techniques safely, see exactly what your detection stack caught and missed, get a score you can track over time and a report you can hand to your board — kept current with the adversary playbook.
Coverage packages, not per-technique pricing. Each tier is a superset of the one below — start where you are, upgrade with a key when you want broader coverage.
| Feature | CommunityFREE | EssentialsSUB | FullSUB | EnterpriseCUSTOM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-host the open core | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Read your own detection data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic scoring | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browse ATT&CK technique catalog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Core adversary techniques | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full technique library (all 8 tactics) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full scoring & history | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Branded engagement reports | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live detection-source connectors | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Incident remediation validation | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Twice-yearly ATT&CK updates | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OT / ICS coverage | – | – | – | ✓ |
| On-prem / MSSP options | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Priority support | – | – | – | ✓ |
Subscription plans with twice-yearly ATT&CK-alignment updates. Contact for current pricing.
ByTE X Bit brings U.S. defense-grade defensive practices to local, state, and federal agencies — and to the primes who serve them. Built on the same frameworks (NIST 800-53, RMF, CMMC) that govern federal systems. Software and services only.
NIST 800-53, RMF, and CMMC programs with audit-ready evidence — SSPs, POA&Ms, and ATO support.
Scored adversary emulation mapped to MITRE ATT&CK that proves what your defenses actually catch.
Stand up or sharpen detection content and integrate it with your existing SOC and SIEM.
Continuous monitoring and cyber network defense, tuned to your environment and threat model.
Senior security guidance for programs, architecture, and assessments.
Bespoke security tooling, automations, and analysis built to your mission requirements.
ByTE X Bit Technologies LLC is a Maryland-registered small business available for subcontracting and teaming with primes on federal, state, and local engagements. Our founder brings two decades of defensive cybersecurity experience supporting U.S. defense and national-security missions, and the framework fluency public-sector work demands.
A formal capability statement is available on request. ByTE X Bit is registered in SAM.gov with an active UEI and CAGE code — reach out and we’ll share our capability statement and current registration details directly.
Whether you're an agency that needs hands-on security help or a prime looking for a capable small-business partner, let's talk.
Everything here is free to run — no account, no key. Quick checks anyone can run to spot common security gaps, plus deeper tools built for security teams. Below them, the open-source platform that powers the paid tiers.
Check SPF, DKIM, and DMARC — with plain-English fixes.
Open the tool →A downloadable Windows/Linux scan of your system’s security — results stay on your machine.
Get the scanner →Check your domain’s DNS, email security, and DNSSEC — in plain English.
Open the tool →Paste a suspicious email or text and see the scam red flags explained.
Open the tool →Visualize what your stack detects.
Catch detections that have silently stopped firing.
Lint and convert detection rules across formats.
Open the tool →Spot telemetry changes that quietly break your rules.
Original research, detection-engineering write-ups, and a focused security-news feed — coming soon.
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A focused weekly feed of what actually matters — actively-exploited vulnerabilities (CISA KEV), critical CVEs, and what to patch first. No noise.
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ByTE X Bit Technologies LLC is an independent cybersecurity software & services company. Our tools and platform were designed and built in a production home-lab SOC running real detection tooling — Elasticsearch, Suricata, Zeek, Wazuh, Sysmon, and Splunk — not mocked up in a slide deck.
Everything is battle-tested against live attack traffic and real ATT&CK-mapped detections before it ships. The result is security built the way a defender actually works: evidence first, claims second.
The proprietary scoring and detection engines are protected; the community core is fully open under Apache 2.0 so you can verify and extend it yourself.
ByTE X Bit was founded by Bryant Himmage, a cybersecurity professional with over two decades of experience supporting U.S. defense and national-security missions. His career spans the full breadth of defensive security — cyber network defense, security operations and SIEM engineering, vulnerability management, and information systems security engineering — built around the same risk-management frameworks (NIST 800-53, RMF) that govern the most security-conscious organizations in the country.
That background shapes how ByTE X Bit works: methodical, evidence-driven, and focused on real risk reduction rather than checkbox security. When he isn't working with clients, he's in his own security lab — building and testing the detection, monitoring, and analysis tooling that informs the services and free tools you'll find here.
The result is enterprise-grade rigor at a small-business scale. The free tools on this site are a glimpse of that approach — practical, honest, built to actually help. When you're ready for hands-on help, you're working directly with someone who has defended networks where the stakes were genuinely high.
Every capability ByTE X Bit ships is proven before it's promised. Detection content is validated against live attack traffic in a real security lab — not demonstrated on slides. Assessments follow a documented, reproducible methodology, so findings can be verified, not just trusted.
Where we automate, the human expert stays the authority — the tooling handles the mechanical work so judgment goes where it matters. That discipline comes straight from the frameworks that govern high-assurance environments: map the requirement, test the control, document the evidence, and reduce the real risk — not the paperwork.
However you got here — ran one of our tools, know you have a problem, or represent an organization that needs a security partner — there's a path below that fits.
Know what you need fixed — from a tool you ran or a problem you already have? Grab a 30-minute working session. We go through it together, sort out what actually matters, and that $75 credits in full toward any work you decide to have done. Rather ask a question first? Email us and we’ll point you the right way.
For organizations that need a security assessment, monitoring, incident readiness, compliance work, or a capability statement — reach out and we’ll scope it together. No checkout, just a conversation.
Our open-source community edition is public. Clone it, run it, and see how we build.
