Beyond Annual Pentests: Building Your Offensive Security Program with Cobalt

For many organizations, the traditional approach of annual or ad-hoc pentesting simply isn't enough to keep up with their fast-paced development cycles. As you innovate and release new features, a once-a-year security check leaves gaps, turning security into a potential blocker rather than an enabler. This is where a proactive approach to cybersecurity comes into play.

The Power of an Offensive Security Program

An offensive security program is a continuous strategy that tests every layer of your business—from code to company—to build confidence in your defenses. By simulating real-world attacks against your applications, infrastructure, and even internal processes, you gain assurance that your defenses work as expected. This strategic shift moves you from a reactive stance to a proactive one, securing your business end-to-end.

A successful offensive security program emphasizes the layering of comprehensive annual pentests, focused pentests for new feature releases, and ongoing security monitoring. This combination allows you to proactively manage your security posture and develop a predictable cadence of testing that aligns with your application, network, and corporate security.

The Cobalt Approach to Programmatic Pentesting 

Building an offensive security program with Cobalt ensures that as your business evolves, your security does too. Our approach goes beyond just finding vulnerabilities; it's about building a continuous security practice. This includes:

• Regular, Broad Scope Pentesting: Ensuring your most critical assets undergo thorough security reviews, identifying high-risk vulnerabilities that could impact business continuity or compliance.
• Narrow Scope Pentesting: Supporting new feature releases or significant updates with small, targeted pentests to validate their security posture. as you roll them out. This helps you innovate and release updates quickly and safely.
• Continuous Security Monitoring: Utilizing automated scanning like Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) to provide ongoing assessments and detect vulnerabilities between pentests. This provides a consistent, up-to-date view of your security risks.

Introducing the Calendar Planner: Visualize Your Security Future

Managing a comprehensive security program, with various types of tests and ongoing monitoring, can be complex. That's why we're excited to introduce the Cobalt Calendar Planner.

The Calendar Planner provides a visual interface for managing your security program, enabling you to:

• Gain a Holistic Overview: Visualize all your tests, including pentests, digital risk assessments, and secure code reviews, in one centralized location.
• Plan and Manage Credits: Understand your required credits and current credit spending by planning your program in advance.
• Streamline Future Planning: Use the quick plan test option to draft future tests or easily duplicate existing ones for upcoming planning.

The Calendar Planner transforms how you manage your security initiatives, providing the clarity and control you need to confidently navigate your security journey. It turns your continuous security program into a visual roadmap, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.

Ready to gain confidence in your defenses and visualize your security future?  Learn more about building an offensive security program with Cobalt and see the new Calendar Planner in action today!