Delivers Faster and More Effective Cybersecurity Testing, Freeing Pentesters to Focus on Finding Sophisticated Vulnerabilities Agents Could Miss
San Francisco – Cobalt, he pioneer of penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and leading provider of offensive security services, today announced new human-led, AI-powered enhancements to its Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, designed to enrich capabilities for both the Cobalt Core pentesting community and its customers. These advancements merge the efficiency of automated intelligence with the creativity and expertise of skilled security professionals. This strategic approach enables organizations to maintain their defensive edge against evolving and complex threats.
The future of Cobalt encompasses a human-led, AI-powered approach to optimize traditional pentesting workflows. These AI-powered solutions provide streamlined data enrichment, remediation guidance, and improve overall efficiency and output. The new capabilities include:
- AI-Powered Scoping: Prioritizes the right assets and accurately identifies the environment and pentest needs.
- AI Pentest Assistant: Summarizes prior findings and pentest-related content, and suggests potential actions based on findings
- AI-Driven Insights and Benchmarking: Provides industry peer comparisons with key metrics and recommendations.
- AI Assistant for Findings and Reports: Suggests draft text for certain findings and reports sections.
- AI-Powered Reconnaissance (available Q4 2025): Streamlines the reconnaissance phase so pentests can start faster and testers can focus on finding exploits.
According to Tyler Shields, security analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group: “The future of security is fully autonomous, self-healing systems, but the timeline to reach that milestone is not immediate. Agentic AI solutions must build trust with customers over time, and one effective way to do that is to augment and learn from interactions with experienced testers. Today, an immediate and impactful way to reduce risk is by supercharging our human experts. Augmenting offensive experts and penetration testers with AI tools is a transformative way to simultaneously scale this expertise and have AI learn and build trust over time."
"As threats become more complex and attackers leverage AI, we must evolve our defenses in kind," said Gunter Ollmann, CTO, Cobalt. “Human pentesters are the most effective when it comes to uncovering real-world risks. By arming them with tools that match the speed and sophistication of modern threats, we’re not replacing pentesters with AI; we’re opening doors to a whole new level of creative liberty, accuracy, and focus. This helps organizations identify risks sooner, resolve issues faster, and keep innovation moving, resulting in stronger security, reduced operational drag, and greater confidence to innovate at scale.”
The first iteration of Cobalt AI enhancements address a critical challenge in modern cybersecurity: the overwhelming volume of data that can obscure genuine threats. Cobalt AI models are trained on over a decade of real pentesting data, versus synthetic data or bug bounties, resulting in one the richest datasets in the industry. By eliminating tedious reconnaissance tasks and filtering signals from noise, Cobalt empowers penetration testers to focus on what they do best—identifying sophisticated attack vectors and developing innovative exploits that strengthen customer defenses.
About Cobalt
Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 450+ trusted security experts, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely.
Cobalt maintains an outstanding NPS of 9.12, reflecting its dedication to customer satisfaction. Read our reviews on G2 to see why customers love us. More at https://www.cobalt.io/. Follow Cobalt on LinkedIn and X.
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