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Human-Led, AI-Powered Pentesting

There’s hype around Agentic AI and Autonomous pentesting, but we believe that a human-led, AI-powered approach is the only way to discover real risk today.

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AI and Human Interaction in Penetration Testing

There are four basic levels of interaction between people and AI when it comes to penetration testing and offensive security solutions:

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Human-only, traditional pentesting:

People are doing all of the work using some tools and automation, but not leveraging artificial intelligence or machine learning.

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Human-led, AI-powered:

People are doing most of the work augmented by AI

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Human-in-the-loop:

AI is doing most of the work but results are verified by pentesters before any findings or reports are published.

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Fully autonomous:

AI is doing all of the work.

The Problems with Human-only, Human-in-the-loop, and Autonomous Approaches

  • Traditional pentesting misses out on the speed and efficiencies gained from leveraging AI.
  • Human-in-the-loop testing assumes the AI models aren’t robust enough and need oversight.
  • Agentic AI is not mature enough to find complex, nuanced vulnerabilities and exploits that experienced pentesters can.
  • Fully Autonomous AI pentesting can’t yet replace the ingenuity of a human pentester.

Cobalt Pentesting: Led by Humans, Powered by AI

A human-centered, AI-augmented approach to penetration testing that combines the scalability of AI with the irreplaceable expertise and ingenuity of a human operator.
  • Our Human-led, AI-powered approach empowers expert pentesters with AI tools, rather than replacing them with AI agents.
  • AI handles repetitive tasks like suggested actions, report writing, and data enrichment.
  • Pentesters are freed up to focus on finding sophisticated vulnerabilities that an agent would miss.
  • Our AI models are trained on over a decade of real pentesting data, ensuring our results are highly effective.

The Cobalt platform now with AI Assisted Pentesting

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Speed, Enhanced

Move from discovery to fix, faster.

The Cobalt platform uses AI to accelerate every step of the pentest process, from intelligent tester matching to streamlined reporting.

With experienced testers leveraging AI, you get actionable insights to your developers faster.

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Intelligence, Scaled

In the age of AI, the best data wins.

Our AI models are trained on over a decade of real pentesting data.

With this rich dataset, you get insights from a library of vulnerabilities that is not available anywhere else.

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Expertise, Amplified

The best pentesters augmented with AI.

Leveraging AI, our expert pentesters automate repetitive tasks and dive deeper into your applications to uncover sophisticated vulnerabilities and high-impact security flaws.

With the Cobalt Core and AI, you get higher quality findings to truly reduce your risk.

Is your AI safe and secure?

AI Security means stopping hackers and adversaries from breaking into your AI systems. AI Safety on the other hand ensures that AI behaves responsibly & doesn’t harm people. Both must work together to create responsible AI and trustworthy AI.

Check out the latest resources from Cobalt on AI Safety and Security, or get a demo today to learn more about securing your AI applications.

Don’t take our word for it

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Steven Maroulis,
Founder & CEO at Jarvis Analytics
“Part of protecting information, part of protecting data is to show that you're regularly checking whether there are any security issues. And this model that we have set up with Cobalt, the continuous security monitoring, helps a lot.”
Our customers
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Kolby Fisher,
Cyber Security Analyst at Progyny
“The platform is leagues beyond what anyone else was offering. Pentest as a Service is much more flexible and caters to our organization's needs in a much more direct way that allows us to pentest new releases as they come out, and also on an annual cadence, our old releases and everything that we need to maintain security for.”
Our customers
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Kolby Fisher,
Cyber Security Analyst at Progyny
“The platform is leagues beyond what anyone else was offering. Pentest as a Service is much more flexible and caters to our organization's needs in a much more direct way that allows us to pentest new releases as they come out, and also on an annual cadence, our old releases and everything that we need to maintain security for.”
Our customers
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