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Synack Put 1,500 Hackers Behind One Locked Door - Now AI Is Knocking
Annual pentests were too slow, scanners were too noisy, and inviting strangers to attack corporate systems sounded absurd. Synack turned that trust problem into a platform - then added an autonomous red agent without removing the humans who prove what matters.
The Hacker Who Put the Annual Pentest on a Permanent Shift
Casey Cammilleri spent years being paid to break into companies. Then he found the more stubborn vulnerability: an industry still treating security like an annual appointment.
The Pentest That Never Clocks Out
A solo hacker in Madison got tired of writing the same annual report twice. So he built software to run the test all year - and turned continuous penetration testing into a business.
Cobalt
Cobalt is the pioneer of Pentest as a Service (PtaaS), pairing a curated community of vetted offensive-security experts (the Cobalt Core) with a SaaS platform that turns penetration testing from a months-long procurement exercise into an on-demand, continuous program. Founded in 2013, the company now serves 1,500+ customers and is leaning hard into AI-augmented offensive security.
Sonali Shah
Sonali Shah is the CEO of Cobalt, the leading Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform, where she took the helm in August 2024 after serving on its board. A product visionary and operator with 20+ years in cybersecurity, she pioneered the first cybersecurity risk rating platform at Bitsight, helped shepherd Veracode through its $950 million sale to Thoma Bravo, and drove Invicti's $625 million acquisition before stepping up to run Cobalt. Educated at Wharton (MBA) and the London School of Economics (MS Economics), she brings a rare mix of Wall Street discipline and deep security product expertise to a company at the intersection of human-led and AI-powered offensive security.