Cobalt Offensive Security Platform shaping the future of agile, continuous security testing
San Francisco – Cobalt, the pioneer of penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and leading provider of human-led, AI-powered offensive security solutions, today announced it has been named both a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Pentest-as-a-Service. The report evaluates platforms on maturity, roadmap execution, feature completeness, scalability, and ability to support continuous offensive security programs.
The Cobalt Offensive Security Platform centralizes access to security services from the company’s team of expert pentesters, making it easier to find and fix vulnerabilities across environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with testers, continuous scanning, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, organizations can identify and fix vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them.
The 2025 GigaOm Radar notes that Cobalt “delivers an aggressive roadmap responding to emerging security threats and testing methodologies. Cobalt emphasizes rapid development of new testing capabilities, particularly in specialized areas like AI and LLM security testing, while maintaining flexibility to adapt to evolving customer requirements.”
As noted in the 2025 GigaOm Radar, “The predominance of vendors in the Challenger circle suggests a market that is competitive but still developing, with relatively few breaking through to Leader status.” This dynamic reflects increasing buyer expectations around maturity, integration with engineering workflows, and measurable security outcomes.
“Security teams are shifting from point-in-time assessments to continuous validation,” said Gunter Ollmann, CTO, Cobalt. “Cobalt provides the scale, automation, and testing expertise needed to support that transition in a way that aligns directly with how product and solution teams work. This recognition as both a Leader and Fast Mover reflects our commitment to advancing how offensive security is delivered and operationalized across development and release cycles.”
The report highlights Cobalt for its strength in:
- Workflow integration: Embedding testing and remediation directly into development and ticketing workflows, with support for tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Bitbucket, ServiceNow, Zendesk, Slack, and Microsoft Teams (Beta).
- Extensibility: Automating and orchestrating offensive security through a public RESTful API and integration builder, enabling alignment with broader engineering and security toolchains.
- Flexible consumption: Scaling testing programs through a credit-based procurement model that enables rapid pentest launch, dynamic resource allocation, and predictable budget planning.
The 2025 GigaOm Radar evaluates 16 of the top Pentest-as-a-Service solutions against the capabilities (table stakes, key features, and emerging features) and business criteria defined in the accompanying Key Criteria. This report offers a structured view of the PTaaS landscape, highlights platforms demonstrating leadership in scalability and operational maturity, and helps organizations assess which solutions best support continuous and repeatable offensive security programs.
The 2025 GigaOm Radar for Pentest-as-a-Service is available here.
To learn more about Cobalt and it’s positioning in the GigaOm Radar Report for the Fourth Consecutive Year, visit our blog.
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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Leslie Kesselring
Kesselring Communication for Cobalt
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