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> If not, is this a million-dollar start-up idea?

The niche market of folks with enough security-savvy to know they need the services of a pen tester is pretty small. That said it's also a pretty wealthy niche, so a boutique "personal security coach" business could probably thrive.

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Companies spend lots of money on security. But then it happens that they're vulnerable when an employee is hacked. I can see in the future companies paying to test their employee's individual security. They might even promote it as an employee perk.

I already know of a company that was hacked due to an email exploit. So they cleaned things up and gave employees specific training. Then six months later they launched their own email attack, something like ten percent of their employees failed that test!

If the question is, are there services that target individuals (or individual employees in a corporation) to help protect them from attacks, yes, that exists. Tall Poppy is one of them (tallpoppy.io).

Thought it was going to be a phishing testing service which I don't remember the name of (maybe https://www.getusecure.com).

(Seems like tallpoppy is focused on harassment)

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