HackerOne, a recognized leader in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), has launched Agentic Pentest as a Service (Agentic PTaaS) a next-generation pentesting model purpose-built for today’s fast-evolving enterprise environments. This innovative solution delivers continuous security validation by merging autonomous agent execution with world-class human expertise, enabling security teams to confidently identify and act on exploitable risks at scale.
Nowadays, security teams face tremendous pressure since rapid development cycles constantly increase the attack surfaces way faster than traditional pentesting can keep up with. On the one hand, traditional approaches give in, depth analysis but miss flexibility; on the other hand, fully automated tools run the risk of generating shallow or unverified findings. Agentic PTaaS bridges this gap by integrating agentic execution and expert human judgment to provide actionable, high, confidence pentest results that are trusted by enterprise security teams.
Agentic Scalability Backed by Human Accountability
Agentic PTaaS evolves the foundational Pentest as a Service (PTaaS) model with a hybrid approach that leverages both multi-agent AI systems and elite pentesting professionals. The coordinated system accelerates reconnaissance, setup, exploitation, and validation across complex, dynamic attack surfaces without sacrificing accuracy or oversight. Agents are continuously refined using proprietary exploit intelligence shaped by years of experience testing real enterprise environments, and their insights are augmented by a global community of verified human pentesters. This combination ensures that outcomes reflect real-world exploitability rather than theoretical risk.
“Security teams aren’t looking for more findings. They are seeking to reduce risk exposure,” said Nidhi Aggarwal, Chief Product Officer at HackerOne. “Agentic PTaaS uses agentic execution to scale the parts of pentesting that slow teams down, enabling testing at a scale that would otherwise take days of manual effort to be completed in hours. That allows our experts to focus on validating exploitability and helping teams reduce real-world risk.”
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Proven Performance in Enterprise Settings
Unlike other agent-based pentesting solutions that are validated primarily in synthetic environments, HackerOne’s Agentic PTaaS is benchmarked in both public and proprietary testing suites and has been successfully deployed in complex production environments across industries. It navigates evolving assets and operational constraints to deliver higher-quality security signals and highly relevant findings that are prioritized for remediation.
For organizations opting for secure source-code integration, the solution offers code-aware testing that goes beyond surface-level scanning. In this mode, agents identify vulnerable patterns and generate targeted hypotheses, which are then systematically validated by AI agents working in concert with human experts to produce precise, high-confidence findings tied directly to application build logic.
Driving Continuous Threat Exposure Management
Delivered through the HackerOne Platform, Agentic PTaaS is positioned as a central capability in operationalizing continuous threat exposure management. By continuously validating exploitability and integrating validation results into prioritization and remediation workflows, enterprises can shift from traditional point-in-time assessments to an always-on exposure reduction model, focused on the risks that matter most.