Prescient Security

Prescient Security is a compliance-audit and penetration-testing firm headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 2018 by Fabrice Mouret (CEO) and Sammy Chowdhury (Chief Compliance Officer), who previously co-founded IT consultancy enableIT. Third-party business-data sources put headcount at roughly 50-290 employees depending on the source and date, with growth reported across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Unlike the venture-funded product companies typically found in this database, Prescient is a professional-services firm; no external venture funding was found, consistent with a bootstrapped, privately-held audit practice.

The firm is not a security product vendor but a services provider: it conducts and issues attestations across more than 25 frameworks, including SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITRUST, GDPR, FedRAMP, and CMMC, and performs penetration testing and vulnerability assessments. It holds CREST accreditation for technical security testing and PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) status, and is listed as an audit partner by major GRC-automation platforms including Drata, Sprinto, and Centraleyes. It also offers ‘Cacilian,’ a proprietary penetration-testing-as-a-service platform with an AI-assisted testing component, layered on top of its manual audit and pentest work.

Prescient’s differentiator is combining accredited compliance auditing with hands-on penetration testing under one roof, serving as an authorized auditor across an unusually broad set of 25+ frameworks and geographies. As a services firm rather than a technology product, it is evaluated on the quality and credibility of human-delivered audits and tests and standards credentials rather than on product innovation.