Untamed Theory helps growing companies find and fix real exposure before an attacker does. Our services include web application, network, and cloud penetration testing, code and architecture reviews, and AI security and governance — each delivered with exploit-backed findings, business-risk ratings, and remediation guidance your engineers can act on the same week.
Manual, exploit-driven testing of your applications and APIs — authentication and session handling, access control, injection, business-logic abuse, and the flaws scanners never reach.
What can an attacker reach from the internet — and how far can they get once inside? Perimeter exposure, exposed services, identity attack paths, lateral movement, and segmentation.
Configuration and identity review across AWS, GCP, and Azure: IAM and least-privilege, network exposure, storage and secrets, logging and detection coverage, and Kubernetes / container posture. Exploit path analysis.
Review of the code paths that matter most — auth, input handling, crypto, secrets — plus dependency and supply-chain exposure and CI/CD pipeline hardening against Poisoned Pipeline Execution.
Design-level threat modeling before you build or before you scale: trust boundaries, data flows, identity and zero-trust design, multi-cloud IAM models, and the controls that keep a single mistake from becoming a breach.
Testing of LLM-powered features — prompt injection, data leakage, tool and agent abuse — plus governance for AI adoption: acceptable-use policy, shadow-AI inventory, and guardrails for AI-assisted development.
Untamed Theory was founded by Tyler Welton, bringing 20 years of cyber security experience — a penetration tester, red-teamer, CISO, and security architect who has spent his career on both sides of the line: breaking enterprise web applications, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines, and building the programs that defend them. As CEO and Principal Consultant, Tyler leads the pentesting function, security architecture, and fractional CISO functions for Untamed Theory.
We have delivered penetration tests and security assessments for a diverse group of organizations — the Department of War, healthcare, finance, education, legal tech, SaaS, hospitality, and logistics — and partnered with Google on AI infrastructure, bringing the depth of offensive researchers and the judgment of seasoned security leaders to every engagement.
Author of Poisoned Pipeline Execution (PPE), the CI/CD supply-chain attack vector that changed how cloud-native pipelines are defended worldwide.
Drafting-team member and primary contributor to the official OWASP standard for securing CI/CD systems — your pipeline is reviewed against a framework we helped write.
Assessments delivered for the Department of War and for healthcare, financial services, education, legal tech, and SaaS organizations — environments where findings have to hold up to auditors, regulators, and enterprise customers.
ISSA Middle Tennessee Application Security Practitioner of the Year; DEF CON main-track speaker; conference keynote speaker; regular speaker on AI risk, pipeline security, and executive cyber governance.
Every engagement is scoped and led by our Principal Consultant, with hands-on testing from him and our team of penetration testers — no hand-off to a junior bench.
Findings come from a team that has designed and run security programs at scale — so recommendations fit how engineering teams actually ship.
Leadership gets a clear risk picture in plain language; engineers get exact reproduction steps. Both get one prioritized path forward. Untamed Theory expresses risk in terms the business cares about — not tech jargon.
We look to serve our clients and make them the hero of their security story. No rockstar ego from our team. Clear, ongoing communication with your team during engagements.
Book a 30-minute scoping call. You'll leave with a defined scope, a quote, and a start date.