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Application Security

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- Red Teaming
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Resource Library

Essential reading and toolkits for modern cybersecurity professionals

Blogs

Sharpen your skills with expert commentary and practical security advice

Events and Webinars

Live and on-demand training for today's most pressing security challenges

Case Studies

Explore real customer stories and see their delight straight from the source

The Responsible AI Imperative

Discover the security challenges of AI adoption and how to address them.

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Read the latest news stories and press coverage

Trust Center

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About Us

Learn how Cobalt infuses manual security testing with speed, simplicity, and transparency

Careers

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Pentesting in 2025

A strategic guide to choosing the right security partner

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Platform

Cobalt Platform

Modern offensive security platform and pioneers in penetration testing as a service (PTaaS)

Offensive Security Program

Go beyond one-off pentests with a continuous program of testing, fix validation, and strategic guidance.

PTaaS

On-demand penetration testing as a service platform. Start a pentest in as little as 24 hours

Integrations

Automate workflows to identify and remediate vulnerabilities faster

Cobalt Core

Meet the community of skilled and highly-vetted penetration testing experts

Why Cobalt

Explore why customers love working with Cobalt for their offensive security service needs

Pricing

Explore the flexible Cobalt credit model for all your penetration testing needs

State of Pentesting Report

Learn what 10 years of pentesting data tells us about addressing risks

Download now
Services
Pentest Services

Proactively identify and mitigate risks with penetration testing services
Application Security

Modern penetration testing services for fast-moving product development teams
- Secure Code Review
- Dynamic Application Security Testing
Network & Cloud Security

Penetration testing across your perimeter and into the cloud
- Cloud Configuration Review
- Attack Surface Management
InfoSec & SOC Services

Test your system defenses against real-world attacks
- Red Teaming
- Digital Risk Assessment
Services Overview

Secure your organization with our expert security services

Learn more
Solutions
By Use Case

Go beyond one-off pentests with a continuous program of testing, fix validation, and strategic guidance
Solutions Overview

Explore cybersecurity solutions to meet your specific needs

Learn more
Resources

Resource Library

Essential reading and toolkits for modern cybersecurity professionals

Blogs

Sharpen your skills with expert commentary and practical security advice

Events and Webinars

Live and on-demand training for today's most pressing security challenges

Case Studies

Explore real customer stories and see their delight straight from the source

The Responsible AI Imperative

Discover the security challenges of AI adoption and how to address them.

Download now
About

Leadership

Meet the executive leadership team driving our mission

Partners

Explore the Cobalt partnership network and apply to become a partner today

Newsroom

Read the latest news stories and press coverage

Trust Center

Transparency is important. See our approach to data privacy, security, and compliance

About Us

Learn how Cobalt infuses manual security testing with speed, simplicity, and transparency

Careers

Join Cobalt to help us redefine and reimagine offensive security

Contact Us

Get in touch with a member of our team

Pentesting in 2025

A strategic guide to choosing the right security partner

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Report

State of Software Supply Chain Security

Our panel discusses insights from the Cobalt 2025 State of Pentesting Report and the risks they didn't see coming.

Infographic

OWASP Top 10 2025 vs Top Web Vulnerabilities in Pentests

Compare the OWASP Top 10 2025 list of strategic risks with the Cobalt Top 10 frequent real-world vulnerabilities found in pentests. Find insights into what security teams should plan for and what they need to fix immediately.

Webinar

Compliant vs. Secure: A CISO and CEO Discuss How to Manage Real-World Risk

Shift from reactive, compliance-driven pentesting to a proactive, programmatic approach that delivers continuous validation, stronger security posture, and reduced exposure through ongoing, strategy-aligned testing.

Infographic

Ad Hoc vs Programmatic Testing Infographic

Shift from reactive, compliance-driven pentesting to a proactive, programmatic approach that delivers continuous validation, stronger security posture, and reduced exposure through ongoing, strategy-aligned testing.

White Paper

Compliance-Driven Penetration Testing

Penetration testing validates key security controls, strengthens compliance with frameworks like PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and builds lasting trust with customers.

Report

State of Software Supply Chain Security

Our panel discusses insights from the Cobalt 2025 State of Pentesting Report and the risks they didn't see coming.

Report

State of Pentesting, Financial Services Report, 2025

Discover critical insights on LLM application security and pentesting challenges. Learn why security investments lag behind genAI adoption and how to strengthen your organization's defenses.

Webinar

The Bottom Line: Quantifying the Financial Impact of Offensive Security

Join our webinar to explore cybersecurity strategies for M&A, featuring experts from Cobalt and SideChannel on best practices and risk management across the deal continuum.

Report

Best Practices for Penetration Testing: Introduction to Pentesting Principles, Practices, and Programs

Download essential resources on penetration testing, including best practices and strategic guides for compliance-driven pentesting to enhance your offensive security strategies.

Report

The Offensive Security Blueprint: A Guide to Building a Modern, Strategic Program

Our new whitepaper, The Offensive Security Blueprint, outlines how to build a modern security program that reduces breach risk, optimizes your security spend, and gives you the confidence to innovate with speed.

Report

State of Pentesting in Healthcare 2025

The State of Pentesting in Healthcare 2025 report analyzes thousands of pentests and surveys of security leaders to provide a definitive look into the industry's security posture. It uncovers why remediation is a key weakness and outlines a path forward for security leaders.

Adopting an Offensive Security Posture

Webinar

Adopting an Offensive Security Posture - SANS

Join our webinar to explore cybersecurity strategies for M&A, featuring experts from Cobalt and SideChannel on best practices and risk management across the deal continuum.

Webinar

Security Team Led Thousands of Pentests

Join our webinar to explore cybersecurity strategies for M&A, featuring experts from Cobalt and SideChannel on best practices and risk management across the deal continuum.

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Report

CISO Perspectives Report: AI and Digital Supply Chain Risks

Discover how a comprehensive offensive security program can empower your organization to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities before threat actors strike, ensuring you're prepared for the inevitable.

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White Paper

Adopting an Offensive Security Posture

Discover how a comprehensive offensive security program can empower your organization to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities before threat actors strike, ensuring you're prepared for the inevitable.

White Paper

How to Fix the Top 5 Web App Vulnerabilities

Learn to detect and fix the top 5 web app vulnerabilities with practical strategies for developers and security teams, based on analysis of over 34,000 security flaws.

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Webinar

Strengthening Cybersecurity in M&A: Taking a Strategic Approach

Join our webinar to explore cybersecurity strategies for M&A, featuring experts from Cobalt and SideChannel on best practices and risk management across the deal continuum.

Webinar

Modern Offensive Security: Inside Personio's Strategic Approach to Pentesting

Discover Personio's strategic pentesting approach to enhance security. Join experts to learn how to build and maintain an effective offensive security program. Register now.

Webinar

Live Demo: Pentesting for AI Applications

Join our live demo to discover how Cobalt's pentesting enhances AI application security, identifies critical vulnerabilities, and accelerates remediation for innovative and safe development.

White Paper

State of LLM Security Report, 2025

Discover critical insights on LLM application security and pentesting challenges. Learn why security investments lag behind genAI adoption and how to strengthen your organization's defenses.

Webinar

Live Demo: Pentesting GenAI Apps

Get started with a demo of Cobalt's Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) Platform. Join use for a live demo to see the benefits of PtaaS for your security!

Webinar

State of Pentesting 2025: What 10 Years of Data Tells Us About Real Risk

Join Jason Lamar, Cobalt’s SVP of Product, for a discussion on building a structured pentesting program that integrates with your AppSec strategy.

Webinar

How AI is Changing the Calculus on Offensive Security and Pentesting

Explore how AI is transforming offensive security and pentesting, enhancing strategies and efficiency in cybersecurity practices. Discover the future of digital defense today.

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Webinar

The Risk You Didn't See Coming: Insights from the 2025 State of Pentesting Report

Our panel discusses insights from the Cobalt 2025 State of Pentesting Report and the risks they didn't see coming.

White Paper

State of Pentesting 2025

Learn what 10 years of pentesting data and a survey of 450 security leaders tells us about the AI security gap, why pentesting is more essential than ever, and much more.

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Checklist

Pentesting Buyer's Checklist

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White Paper

Pentesting in 2025 and Beyond: A Strategic Guide to Choosing the Right Partner

Choosing the right pentesting provider is key to the success of your security initiatives.

Webinar

Rethinking AppSec: Using Pentesting to Prioritize What Matters

White Paper

The Responsible AI Imperative Report

Discover the security challenges of AI adoption and learn how to protect your applications with strategic pentesting of AI systems throughout the software development lifecycle.

Cover Image: Pentesting Large Language Model Apps using the OWASP Top 10 for LLM

Webinar

Pentesting Large Language Model Apps using the OWASP Top 10 for LLM

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Checklist

Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS) Vendor Evaluation Checklist

Jason Lamar, Cobalt’s Senior Vice President of Product recently joined David Bittner on the CyberWire Daily Podcast to share insights on pentesting, the growing need for offensive security and how companies can stay ahead of cyber threats.

Webinar

The 90% Rule: Mastering Best Practices to Secure AI Ecosystems and Reduce Risk

Webinar

GigaOm Radar Report for PTaaS: How to Make a Smarter Investment in Pentesting

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Webinar

Mastering DORA Compliance: Ensuring Digital Resilience

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White Paper

GigaOm Radar Report for PTaaS 2024

For the third consecutive year, Cobalt is honored to be recognized as an Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar Report for Penetration Testing as a Service. Backed by a dedicated community of expert pentesters and the latest technology, our platform delivers unmatched quality and speed. Discover why Cobalt continues to set the standard in PTaaS.

Webinar

Compliance Crunch: How to Pentest Without the Panic

Cover Image GigaOm CxO Brief: Offensive Security Testing and Pentest as a Service (PtaaS)

Solution Brief

GigaOm CxO Brief: Offensive Security Testing and Pentest as a Service (PtaaS)

Learn how Cobalt improves cybersecurity by delivering Offensive Security Testing at scale.

Webinar

Improving Security Maturity in the Age of AI

Webinar

SANS 2024 AI Survey Webcast

SANS AI Survey Report 2024

White Paper

SANS AI Survey 2024

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Webinar

State of Pentesting Report 2024 Webinar: Tips for Securing AI and an Expanding Attack Surface

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White Paper

SANS Application & API Security Survey 2024

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Solution Brief

Dynamic Application Security Testing Solutions Brief

Stay on top of vulnerabilities and efficiently reduce risk with automated scans and real-time insights from Cobalt DAST.

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Solution Brief

LLM Pentesting Solutions Brief

Secure your AI & LLM apps with Cobalt’s expert pentesting, targeting vulnerabilities based on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM.

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White Paper

State of Pentesting 2024

Our 6th edition of The State of Pentesting explores the most prevalent vulnerabilities, top vulnerabilities, AI trends, and security challenges in cybersecurity by tapping into data from 4,000 tests and over 900 responses from security practitioners in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Solution Brief

Digital Risk Assessment Brief

Secure your digital footprint with Cobalt’s Digital Risk Assessment, proactively identifying public information malicious actors can exploit.

Report

Frost & Sullivan Brand Protection

Access Cobalt's comprehensive report crafted with Frost & Sullivan to learn how bad actors can jeopardize your digital assets, the regulatory and reputational dangers, as well as the best strategies to proactively safeguard your brand.

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White Paper

GigaOm Radar Report Names Cobalt Leader for Penetration Testing as a Service (PtaaS)

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Report

OffSec Shift

The OffSec Shift Report reveals how organizations are shifting and bringing both defense and offense to the battle.

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Brief

Network Pentesting Solutions Brief

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Report

Secure Your SDLC Guide

Best-in-class organizations are now pivoting away from traditional methods to combat risk and are embracing a revolutionary approach by combining disruptive technology and human intelligence.

Webinar

Cloud Native Now 2023

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White Paper

State of Pentesting 2023

Our 5th edition of The State of Pentesting explores the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how macroeconomic trends impact security teams, and where you might be leaving money on the table with your pentests by tapping into data from 3,100 tests and over 1,000 responses from security practitioners in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Webinar

Security is Job One

Wireless Penetration Testing Solutions Overview

Brief

Wireless Pentesting Brief

White Paper

ESG Economic Validation Report

Brief

Pentesting Use Cases Brief

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Webinar

The Benefits of Cobalt's PtaaS Model Webinar

Report

Pentesting in DevOps: A How-To Guide

Try to fit a pentest into a 24-hour development sprint and you may find yourself multiple iterations behind by the time vulnerability findings come back.

How Devs Can Fix And Prevent The 5 Most Common Web App Vulnerabilities

White Paper

How Devs Can Fix And Prevent The 5 Most Common Web App Vulnerabilities

A Developer’s Guide to Pentest Terminology and Metrics

White Paper

A Developer’s Guide to Pentest Terminology and Metrics

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Webinar

The ROI of Partnering with Cobalt

Brief

Cobalt Integrations Brief

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Phishing Solutions Brief

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Red Team Solutions Brief

Cobalt Secure Code Review Solution Brief

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Secure Code Review Solutions Brief

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Cobalt Platform Brief

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Enterprise Solution Brief

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Cobalt Packages

White Paper

The State of Pentesting 2022

For 2022, we present the most prevalent vulnerabilities, how teams manage risk, and how talent shortages impact both security and development teams. Benchmark your application security against stats from over 2,300 pentests.

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PtaaS versus Traditional Consultancies

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White Paper

The Challenges of Threat Modeling Modern Applications

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Webinar

The Security Leadership Gap: What We Need for Today’s Organizations

Webinar

Benefits of Continuous Pentesting & Cyber Security Programs

White Paper

The Buyer's Guide to Modern Pentesting

Ready for your next pentest? The Buyer's Guide to Modern Pentesting has all the intel on the pentesting market & how vendors can strengthen your security.

Brief

Solution Brief: Cobalt’s Pentest Platform Turns Insights Into Action

Webinar

ROI of Modern Pentesting: How ezCater Found Real-World Savings with PtaaS

Webinar

Pair Cyber Asset Visibility with Pentesting to Fight the Clock Against Hackers

Webinar

Leverage Pentest & Compliance Automation to Scale Security Operations

Webinar

SaaStock Sessions: 6 Steps to Building a Pentest Program for SOC 2 Compliance

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Pentest as a Service Features for Engineering

Webinar

Building an Information Security & Compliance Roadmap

Webinar

Winning the Security Budget Fight: How To Get Funding Everytime

Webinar

SecTalks Lightning Talk: Modeling Graphs for Security Analysis

Webinar

SecTalks Session- The State of Pentesting 2021

Webinar

SecTalks Session- How to Negotiate: Security Career Tips

Webinar

SecTalks Lightning Talk: Presented by Secureframe

Webinar

SecTalks Session- The Hidden Insights in Your Pentest Data

Webinar

SecTalks Session- Cybersecurity in the Boardroom

Webinar

SecTalks Lightning Talk: Using TPRM as a Pentesting Strategy

Webinar

SecTalks Keynote Session Oct 2021

Webinar

SecTalks Lightning Talk: The Past, Present & Future of Information Security Audit

Webinar

SecTalks Session- Speak My Language: How to Talk Security to Different Audiences

Webinar

The State of Pentesting 2021

White Paper

451 Research Insight Report on Cobalt PtaaS Model

White Paper

Get to Know the Cobalt Core

White Paper

The State of Pentesting 2021

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Report

Compliance Pentesting: Beginners Guide to Testing

Regardless of which compliance framework you’re pursuing, pentesting will either help you fulfill a control that specifically calls for it, or bolster other required activities.

White Paper

SANS Analyst Whitepaper: Pentest as a Service with Cobalt 2021

Webinar

SecTalks Session - Make Security Stronger: Creating More Efficient Workflows

Report

A Comprehensive Guide to Building a Pentest Program

This guidebook aims to educate and outline the benefits of deploying pentesting as a program. Using Cobalt.io's own pentest program as an example for building out your own program.

White Paper

The State of Pentesting: 2020

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The State of Pentesting: 2019

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Analyst Research: ROI of Pentest as Service

Explore the ROI of Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) with insights from Dr. Chenxi Wang, a cybersecurity industry thought leader and analyst.

White Paper

OWASP Top 10 is a Good Start. Now What?

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Report

A Practitioner’s Guide to Application Security

The knowledge to build and improve your AppSec program using straightforward approaches that work.

Guide to API Security Testing

White Paper

Guide to API Security Testing

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Report

Pentesting Metrics

The security market is littered with guidance on metrics that are never used and have zero practical value to an infosec practitioner. This ebook provides metrics forged from hundreds of pentests and application security programs.