The PtaaS Book
The PtaaS Book has everything you need to know about a modern approach to pentesting: how it works, what makes it more efficient, and what it does for your security.
Legacy penetration testing doesn’t integrate into a modern secure development lifecycle. Pentest as a Service solves this problem and more.
PtaaS eliminates the inefficiencies of traditional penetration testing, leveraging a digital platform for efficient and flexible testing with the ability to conduct multiple tests at one time while avoiding lengthy procurement processes to bring on new pentesters.
Seamlessly integrate with Jira, GitHub, or use the Cobalt API to relay the manual pentest findings to your development teams. Benefit from detailed insights and tailored fixes to remediate risks intelligently and strengthen security.
Avoid compromising between competitive pricing and human expertise. Circumvent the limitations of traditional pentesting and automated scanning solutions, ensuring thorough detection of complex exploits and business logic flaws with Cobalt's PtaaS platform and manual penetration testing services.
Launch new pentests rapidly with PtaaS and access to a pool of expert pentesters and the ability to start tests within 24 hours. Reuse stored asset data for subsequent tests and scale your security efforts effortlessly with our SaaS approach, catering to all testing requirements.
PtaaS brings data front and center, with advanced reporting that executive teams are sure to love. Businesses can actively monitor their tests' results over longer periods of time to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for improvement. Better align with your SDLC by purchasing pentesting credits in advance and ensure you're able to quickly launch a test as needed.
Cobalt is transforming the PtaaS landscape with Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Attack Surface Management (ASM). In today's world, where businesses face a broadening array of cyber threats—from budding teenage hackers to powerful nation-states—the importance of proactive security measures has never been more clear. The evolving security environment demands that companies adopt continuous testing strategies to uncover and fortify against vulnerabilities.
Streamline your security posture with PtaaS. Seamless integration into existing systems, select from a fresh pool of pentesters to enhance your defenses without the red tape of procurement between each test, and track results in real time.
If you’re only doing compliance testing once a year, you’re flying blind to potential weaknesses—while pushing new code every day. With Cobalt, you can pinpoint vulnerabilities and accelerate time to resolution, whether you’re testing regularly or auditing once a year.
Cobalt offers expansive manual penetration testing services with increased speed, a collaborative environment, integrations to speed up remediation, and complimentary retesting. Cobalt buckets pentests into two offerings: Comprehensive Pentesting and Agile Pentesting.
Comprehensive Pentesting encompasses all vulnerability categories across an asset. Primary use cases include compliance testing, customer requests, and M&A due diligence.
Agile Pentesting has a targeted scope focused on a specific piece of an asset or a specific vulnerability across an asset. Primary use cases include new release testing, delta testing, exploitable vulnerability testing, single OWASP category testing, and microservice testing.
Read more about the key benefits of PtaaS.
PtaaS brings together some of the best attributes of both security scanners while still leveraging human testers to investigate business logic. Learn more about the difference between traditional pentesting, security scanners, and traditional pentesting. Cobalt also offers a single complimentary DAST target for our platform users.
Customers using the quality at speed offered by a PtaaS platform can start a test in as little as 24 hours, depending on the scope of the test.
77% of IT security professionals say they don’t receive any findings from pentesters until the final report, which takes an average of 7 weeks. With this, companies report a reduction in time-to-results by 50% compared to traditional consulting engagements.
Yes, Cobalt offers a variety of offensive security services ranging from code review to digital risk assessments.
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"When we first went with Cobalt it was purely for PCI requirements, but we were looking to scale our program and pentest on a more continuous basis. Cobalt gave us the ability to pentest on a frequent basis with minimum effort from our teams, saving us time and providing us quality results on a consistent basis."
The PtaaS Book has everything you need to know about a modern approach to pentesting: how it works, what makes it more efficient, and what it does for your security.
Start testing in 24 hours. Connect directly with our security experts. And centralize your testing using the Cobalt platform. Trust the pioneers of PtaaS to optimize your cybersecurity across your entire attack surface.