The traditional process of managing a penetration test can be a source of frustration, especially when talking about communication between security teams and pentesters. Security teams often wait weeks for a final PDF report, and clarifying findings involves searching through long email chains. This creates significant delays, allowing vulnerabilities to remain unaddressed.
At Cobalt, we believe real-time collaboration is the key to faster remediation. This principle is a core part of our offensive security platform. For years, our customers have benefited from direct communication with pentesters via in-platform chat and our Slack integration. This direct line is important for resolving access issues, clarifying findings, and keeping the remediation lifecycle moving.
Today, we are excited to extend this real-time collaboration to one of the world's most popular enterprise communication hubs: Microsoft Teams.
The Cobalt Integration for Microsoft Teams
We are excited to announce that the Cobalt integration for Microsoft Teams is now available in the Microsoft Marketplace.
This new, bi-directional integration connects Cobalt pentesters with your internal security and development teams directly within your existing Teams workflows. It delivers the same efficiency our users love, now in the communication channel used by over 320 million monthly active users.
How This Integration Accelerates Your Remediation Workflow
The Cobalt Microsoft Teams integration is about more than just adding an app; it’s about streamlining the pentest process and empowering your teams to act faster. By connecting a Teams channel to a Cobalt pentest, you can reduce context-switching and accelerate collaboration and communication with your pentesters.
Here are the key benefits you and your team will see:
- Act on Findings Immediately: Receive real-time notifications for pentester status updates and comments directly in your Teams channel. This allows your team to act on high-severity issues while the test is still ongoing, rather than waiting for a final report.
- Eliminate Communication Silos: Send messages from Teams directly to the Cobalt pentest chat. Attachment-syncing keeps discussions organized, eliminating bottlenecks and getting your team answers quickly.
- Enhance Stakeholder Transparency: Gain immediate visibility into pentest progress. You can bring stakeholders into the discussion by adding them to the channel—no Cobalt account needed. This breaks down silos, making it easy to loop in a developer to clarify a technical question.
- Integrate Seamlessly into Your Workflow: Integrating pentest communications into your existing Teams workflows improves operational efficiency. This seamless connection leads to a quicker understanding of findings and a faster remediation cycle.
Ready to connect your pentest workflow to Microsoft Teams? You can install the Cobalt Teams app directly from the Microsoft App Store.
