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Agentic PTaaS

Agentic pentesting for continuous offensive security

Agentic Penetration Testing as a Service pairs AI-driven automation with elite human pentesters to deliver continuous offensive security, triggered by risk, not the calendar.
CHALLENGES

Annual pentests were never designed for this.

Applications multiply. Cloud environments expand. Compliance requirements tighten. But most pentesting programs still operate on the same annual cycle they did a decade ago. The gap between how fast risk changes and how often you test for it creates the exposure adversaries count on.

How most organizations test today

  • Annual or semiannual pentests
  • Weeks to scope, procure, and schedule
  • Static PDF report delivered after the engagement
  • A handful of assets tested per cycle
  • Results that reflect a point in time
  • Findings tossed over the wall to dev teams

What today’s threat landscape demands

  • Testing that activates when risk changes
  • Days or hours to mobilize
  • Real-time findings you can act on during testing
  • Coverage across your full portfolio
  • Continuous validation that reflects reality
  • Direct collaboration between pentesters and your team throughout the engagement
THE EVOLUTION OF PTAAS

From annual audits to continuous offensive security

What is PTaaS?

Penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) is a platform-delivered model for offensive security testing. It replaces the slow, project-based procurement of traditional pentesting with on-demand access to expert-led pentests through a SaaS platform. Organizations use a PTaaS platform to launch tests faster, receive real-time findings during engagements, collaborate directly with pentesters, and integrate results into existing remediation workflows.

PTaaS solved the speed and access problem. Instead of months of scoping and contract negotiation, security teams launch a pentest in days, see findings in real time, and work directly with the pentesters doing the testing. Cobalt pioneered this model over a decade ago, and the industry followed.

The threat landscape did not stand still. Attack surfaces kept expanding. Compliance demands shifted from annual proof to continuous evidence. And AI-accelerated threats compressed the window between exposure and exploitation.

PTaaS must evolve again.
The next step is agentic PTaaS.

Traditional pentesting

Compliance-driven.
Calendar-bound.
  • Annual or semiannual cadence
  • Weeks to scope and procure
  • Manual, project-based delivery
  • Static PDF report at the end
  • Single asset or narrow scope

Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS)

Faster.
Platform-delivered.
Collaborative.
  • Monthly or quarterly cadence
  • Days to mobilize
  • Human-led testing through a SaaS platform
  • Real-time findings during the engagement
  • Broader coverage, still scoped per engagement
  • Direct pentester collaboration

Agentic PTaaS

Continuous.
Trigger-driven.
Portfolio-wide.
  • Testing activates when risk changes
  • Minutes to mobilize
  • AI-augmented discovery and recon, human-led validation
  • Real-time findings with prioritized remediation guidance
  • Coverage across your full asset portfolio
  • Ongoing pentester collaboration across your program
RECOGNITION
HOW IT WORKS

Agentic PTaaS delivers continuous offensive security

The Cobalt Offensive Security Platform™ spans the full spectrum of offensive security testing, from targeted, human-led pentesting, to high-frequency, AI-driven autonomous pentesting. Agentic PTaaS covers everything from scoping to reporting and retesting. This lifecycle never stops. As your environment changes, testing activates again.
AGENTIC PTaaS LIFECYCLE
AGENTIC PTaaS LIFECYCLE

1. Scope

Define objectives and launch a pentest in minutes using the in-platform scoping wizard. Schedule on demand or set recurring testing cadences aligned to your release cycles and compliance calendar.

2. Discover

AI-driven discovery continuously maps your attack surface as it changes. New assets, exposed APIs, cloud misconfigurations, and AI/LLM applications surface automatically, so nothing goes untested.

3. Test

The right method activates for the right risk. Cobalt Autonomous Pentest delivers complete pentests in 24 hours with proof of exploit on every finding, overseen by Cobalt Core pentesters. Human-led pentests go deep on high-risk targets, complex business logic, and novel attack paths that require manual expertise.

4. Collaborate and Remediate

Pentesters work alongside your team throughout every engagement. Findings arrive in real time with exploitability context and remediation guidance. 50+ integrations route findings directly into your existing workflows. Free retesting within a seven-day SLA validates that fixes hold.

5. Report and Benchmark

Customizable reports meet the needs of every stakeholder, from executive summaries to technical deep dives. Track progress and program improvements over time. Benchmark your offensive security program against industry peers.
THE COBALT ADVANTAGE

AI built on the industry's deepest exploit intelligence

Most AI security tools are trained on public vulnerability data. Cobalt Sage AI, the intelligence that powers every Cobalt pentest, is built on 13 years of expertise, informed by thousands of security engagements, and leverages the experience of 500+ Cobalt Core pentesters. This knowledge is the difference between flagging a potential issue and confirming an exploitable vulnerability.
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Discovery agents map your attack surface continuously so nothing goes untested.

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Reporting agents deliver prioritized, remediation-ready findings to the right stakeholder automatically.

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Cobalt Autonomous Pentest delivers complete pentests in 24 hours, every finding backed by proof of exploit, and overseen by Cobalt Core pentesters.

BENEFITS AND OUTCOMES

Built for your team, however your team is built

Whether you have a 50-person security organization, or you are the security team, agentic PTaaS scales to match your reality. Every role gets the outcome that matters most.
CISO

Portfolio-wide visibility. Consolidated spend.

See your offensive security posture across every asset in a single platform. Demonstrate continuous validation to the board. Replace fragmented vendor relationships and per-engagement procurement with one programmatic model.
Application Security

Program scale without headcount scale

Build a continuous testing program across your full application portfolio. Integrate findings into existing workflows. Shift from managing individual pentests to managing an offensive security program against measurable benchmarks.
Developer

Faster findings. Direct pentester access.

Collaborate with Cobalt Core pentesters in real time during every engagement. Receive findings with exploitability context and remediation guidance routed directly into Jira, GitHub, ServiceNow, or your existing toolchain.
Compliance

Audit-ready proof, on demand

Generate customizable reports mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS. Access letters of attestation and executive summaries without waiting for the engagement to close. Track compliance posture continuously, not just at audit time.
IT

Enterprise-grade testing without enterprise-grade complexity

You don't need a dedicated security team to run a pentesting program. The calendar planner, scoping wizard, and Cobalt Core pentesters handle the heavy lifting. You get prioritized findings, clear remediation guidance, and compliance-ready reports without building internal expertise first.
CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS

Results from teams like yours

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We were stuck in a cycle of annual or quarterly manual headaches, which treated security as a compliance checkbox instead of a continuous operation.

Yaad Karim

CISO, DigitalRoute
From compliance to continuous:
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We consider the Cobalt pentesters as an extension of our own security team. We get to triage and remediate findings together.

Yaad Karim

CISO, DigitalRoute
Cobalt pentesters as an extension of your team:
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While many continuous solutions rely solely on AI and scripts, the human validation provided at Cobalt is the key differentiator. By leveraging Cobalt pentesting expertise, we move beyond the noise of raw data, allowing our team to focus on high-impact remediation rather than manual de-duplication.

Jon Cheuvront

Sr. Security Engineer, Gallagher
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about agentic PTaaS

What is agentic PTaaS?
Agentic PTaaS is the next evolution of penetration testing as a service. It is human orchestrated offensive security, where elite human pentesters deliver continuous, trigger-driven offensive security across an entire asset portfolio. Rather than testing on a fixed schedule, agentic PTaaS activates when risk changes, whether triggered by a new deployment, a configuration shift, or an emerging threat. AI handles discovery, reconnaissance, and reporting at scale while human pentesters lead validation, complex testing, and business logic analysis. Every finding reflects our judgment before it reaches your team.
How is PTaaS different from traditional penetration testing?
Traditional pentesting is project-based, typically annual, and delivered through lengthy procurement cycles. Results arrive as a static PDF after the engagement ends. PTaaS delivers offensive security through a SaaS platform with faster scoping, real-time findings, direct pentester collaboration, and integration into tools like Jira, GitHub, and ServiceNow. PTaaS also supports recurring and continuous testing cadences, making it possible to test more frequently without proportionally increasing cost.
What types of assets can be tested with PTaaS?
The Cobalt Offensive Security Platform(™) supports testing across web applications, APIs, mobile applications, internal and external networks, cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), AI and LLM applications, and desktop applications. Attack surface management (ASM) and dynamic application security testing (DAST) are also available to extend coverage between human-led engagements.
How does PTaaS support compliance requirements?
PTaaS helps organizations meet compliance mandates for frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR. The Cobalt Offensive Security Platform provides customizable reports, letters of attestation, and executive summaries that can be generated on demand. Continuous testing creates an ongoing evidence trail rather than a single annual snapshot, which increasingly aligns with how auditors evaluate security posture.
How does PTaaS integrate with existing security and development tools?
The Cobalt Offensive Security Platform offers 50+ native integrations with security and development tools including Jira, GitHub, GitLab, ServiceNow, Slack, Splunk, and more. Findings are routed directly into your existing workflows with remediation context, reducing the manual handoff between security and development teams and accelerating time to fix.
How does PTaaS pricing work?
PTaaS uses a credit-based subscription model. Organizations purchase credits that can be applied to any combination of testing services across their portfolio. This replaces the per-engagement scoping and procurement cycle of traditional pentesting, giving teams the flexibility to allocate testing where and when risk demands it. Credits can cover web application pentests, API pentests, network pentests, cloud pentests, and more.
What is the role of human pentesters in an AI-augmented PTaaS model?
Human pentesters are central to the Cobalt model. AI accelerates discovery, reconnaissance, and reporting, but elite Cobalt Core pentesters lead validation, exploitation, and complex testing. Experienced pentesters provide the critical layer of judgment that determines whether a vulnerability is truly exploitable and what its real business impact is. They identify creative attack paths, business logic flaws, and chained vulnerabilities that automation alone cannot replicate.
How quickly can a pentest be launched through PTaaS?
It depends on the testing model. Human-led pentests launch within 24 hours using the in-platform scoping wizard, with findings arriving in real time as testing progresses. Cobalt Autonomous Pentest delivers a complete pentest in 24 hours, from scope to findings, with elite Cobalt Core pentesters overseeing every engagement to enforce scope, methodology, and quality. Both options stream findings directly into your existing tools.
What is the difference between autonomous pentesting and human-led pentesting on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform?
Both are part of the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform and both are overseen by elite Cobalt Core pentesters. Cobalt Autonomous Pentest uses AI to deliver a complete pentest in 24 hours with proof of exploit on every finding, ideal for portfolio-wide coverage and continuous validation. Human-led pentests are led by Cobalt Core pentesters directly and provide the depth required for high-risk assets, complex business logic, novel attack paths, and specialized testing such as red teaming. Most organizations use both in combination: Cobalt Autonomous Pentest for breadth across the portfolio, human-led pentests for depth on critical assets.
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