Toro was founded in 2015 by Peter Connolly.
Following a career in the military, Peter was asked to create the UK’s first Red Team penetration testing methodology blending ethical hacking, physical intrusion, and social engineering to replicate attacks by SOC (Serious Organised Crime) and Nation States. Peter and his team were tasked with attacking hundreds of businesses from government departments to data centres, banks, and corporate offices to identify their weaknesses.
The Red Team quickly discovered the gaps that were most easy to exploit were because the defenders had a siloed approach to cyber and physical security.
Criminals exploit the path of least resistance, combining cyber threats, physical breaches, and human error but the Red Team found that the defenders were treating each element of security as a stand-alone creating gaps that they could breach. This is where the idea of Toro was born.