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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 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.