HMH Consultants

🎄 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT 🎄

We’ve locked in our sponsor and our charity partner for Range Day on January 9.

🤝 Sponsor: Marine Managers
🎗 Charity: Wounded Warrior Project
📍 Location: Shooting Club, Plantersville, TX

If you are stuck on what to get clients or top staff for Christmas, this is it.

Not another basket. Not another bottle.
Give them a day out:
🎯 Outdoor shooting
👥 Real networking
🪖 Former Green Berets and SWAT instructors as range officers
❤️ Supporting Wounded Warrior Project
🎁 Buy a block of tickets for clients or your team as a thank you for everything they have done this year.

👉 Grab tickets here:

HMH Security Consulting & Higginbotham Presents RANGE DAY!! Lunch, laughs, and a little competition. Range Day is the networking event you’ll actually remember

You don’t break into the Louvre for gemstones, you steal provenance. Targeted, quick, recon-driven.

The lesson for retailers: CCTV, alarms and contractors are only as good as the feedback loops that validate them. Test those loops. Simulate the attack. Fix what’s actually exploitable.

Want a physical pen test that proves your weak points?

Email us ~ [email protected].

🚨 "What’s the risk with open ports?" — A Non-Technical Explainer for SaaS & Cloud Teams
Imagine your app is a building.
Each 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 is like a door—some are meant for visitors, others are supposed to stay locked.
🔓 But when ports are left open 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯, they become back doors.
🧪 Pentesters (and hackers) look for these doors—especially the ones that:
Lead to admin panels
Run old or weak software
Don’t require proper credentials
Leak sensitive system info
💡 Example:
An open port might expose a database login page with no firewall or brute-force protection.
A pentester could simulate a real attack, break in, and show you exactly how a hacker would exploit it.
𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
✅ Not all open ports are bad.
❌ But 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯, or 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 ports are one of the top ways hackers get in.
🔐 Regular pentesting helps you find these doors 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 attackers do.

🚨 “What’s the risk with open ports?” — A Non-Technical Explainer for SaaS & Cloud Teams
Imagine your app is a building.
Each 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 is like a door—some are meant for visitors, others are supposed to stay locked.
🔓 But when ports are left open 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯, they become back doors.
🧪 Pentesters (and hackers) look for these doors—especially the ones that:
Lead to admin panels
Run old or weak software
Don’t require proper credentials
Leak sensitive system info
💡 Example:
An open port might expose a database login page with no firewall or brute-force protection.
A pentester could simulate a real attack, break in, and show you exactly how a hacker would exploit it.
𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲:
✅ Not all open ports are bad.
❌ But 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯, or 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 ports are one of the top ways hackers get in.
🔐 Regular pentesting helps you find these doors 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 attackers do.