Penetration-testing-as-a-service company Cobalt Labs Inc. today announced new human-led, artificial intelligence-powered enhancements to its Offensive Security Platform that are designed to enrich capabilities for both the Cobalt Core pentesting community and its customers.
The new advancements merge automated intelligence with the creativity and expertise of skilled security professionals to allow organizations to maintain their defensive edge against evolving and complex threats.
The advancements are part of Cobalt’s push toward a future that encompasses a human-led, AI-powered approach to optimize traditional pentesting workflows. The AI-powered solutions provide streamlined data enrichment, remediation guidance and improve overall efficiency and output.
The new capabilities announced today include AI-Powered Scoping, a feature that prioritizes the right assets and accurately identifies the environment and pentest needs and AI Pentest Assistant, which summarizes prior findings and pentest-related content and suggests potential actions based on findings.
These are complemented with AI-Powered Reconnaissance, which, when released in the fourth quarter, will streamline the reconnaissance phase so pentests can start faster and testers can focus on finding exploits.
Other new capabilities include AI Assistant for Findings and Reports, which suggests draft text for certain findings and reports sections. There’s also AI-Driven Insights and Benchmarking, which provide industry peer comparisons with key metrics and recommendations.
“Human pentesters are the most effective when it comes to uncovering real-world risks,” said Chief Technology Officer Gunter Ollmann. “By arming them with tools that match the speed and sophistication of modern threats, we’re not replacing pentesters with AI; we’re opening doors to a whole new level of creative liberty, accuracy and focus.”
Cobalt’s AI models are trained on more than a decade of real pentesting data, versus synthetic data or bug bounties, resulting in what the company claims is one of the richest datasets in the industry.
The idea with the new release today is that by eliminating tedious reconnaissance tasks and filtering signals from noise, penetration testers can focus on what they do best — identifying sophisticated attack vectors and developing innovative exploits that strengthen customer defenses.
The result, according to Ollmann, “helps organizations identify risks sooner, resolve issues faster and keep innovation moving, resulting in stronger security, reduced operational drag and greater confidence to innovate at scale.”
Cobalt is a venture capital-backed company that has raised $36.6 million over five rounds, according to data from Tracxn. Investors in the company include Highland Europe Ltd., Byfounders, eLab Ventures, Plug and Play Tech Center, Draper Associates LP and DG Ventures.
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