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Penetration Testing & Attack Simulation

Pentera Automated Security Validation Platform

Unified exposure validation platform with Core, Surface, Cloud, and Resolve modules for kill-chain testing.

Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)

Pentera Automated Security Validation Platform Overview

Pentera Automated Security Validation Platform is an AI-powered security validation solution from Pentera (formerly Pcysys), founded in 2015 by Arik Liberzon (CTO, former IDF Cyber Warfare head) and Arik Faingold (Chairman), with Amitai Ratzon as CEO, and headquartered in Burlington, MA, United States with R&D in Petach Tikva, Israel. The company raised $250M across 5 rounds from Evolution Equity Partners, K1 Investment Management, Insight Partners, Farallon Capital Management, Blackstone, and AWZ Ventures ($60M Series D March 2025 at $1B+ valuation). Pentera achieved unicorn status in January 2022 and reached Centaur status (first in AEV market). The company has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification (first AEV vendor) and SOC 2 compliance.

The platform autonomously orchestrates full kill-chain attacks from external assets to core infrastructure with agentless architecture requiring no endpoint installation. Core capabilities include External Attack Surface Management (Shadow IT discovery), Breach and Attack Simulation, automated penetration testing proving vulnerability exploitability, RansomwareReady (validates resilience against ransomware strains), and Credentials Exposure (analyzes dark web compromised credentials for attack pathways). Pentera Labs, led by VP of Research Alex Spivakovsky with 24 IDF intelligence researchers, discovers zero-day vulnerabilities (VMware vCenter flaws) and contributes to MITRE ATT&CK framework.

Serving 1,100+ customers including Casey's, Wyndham Hotels, Virgin Atlantic across financial services, healthcare, government sectors. ARR increased 300% since 2021, customer base grew 200%. The company acquired DevOcean (AI-remediation platform, October 2025) and EVA Information Security (AI red teaming, November 2025). Named SC Awards finalist as Most Promising Unicorn.

Key Capabilities

mapped to solution niches
Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV)

Executes cloud-specific attack techniques including IAM privilege escalation, SSRF to metadata services, storage bucket enumeration, and cross-account role assumption to surface cloud exploit paths.

Runs attack technique sequences on a scheduled or continuous basis against production controls, surfacing control drift between point-in-time assessments without human intervention.

Maps executed attack techniques to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and reports coverage across the attack lifecycle, enabling threat-informed gap analysis and detection engineering.

Provides specific detection rule recommendations, log source requirements, and control configuration changes for each identified gap: not just a list of undetected techniques.

Executes simulations using non-destructive payloads and read-only techniques that cannot cause data loss, service disruption, or lateral damage in production environments.

Dynamically discovers and chains exposures (unpatched CVEs, misconfigurations, and credential weaknesses) into multi-step exploit paths without predefined scripts, sequencing weaknesses in the order an attacker would based on live environment state.

Safely exploits discovered weaknesses to produce empirical evidence of exploitability for each finding, replacing theoretical vulnerability data with confirmed attack outcomes and reducing false positives.

Ranks remediation by the impact of validated attack paths and blast radius rather than raw CVSS scores, directing effort toward the weaknesses that actually enable compromise.

Re-tests specific validated weaknesses after remediation to confirm each fix closed the attack path, closing the validation loop between testing and remediation.

Ingests estate context such as asset discovery, attack surface management, and vulnerability data, natively or through integrations, to scope and prioritize validation against the assets and exposures that matter most.

Compliance

certifications
ISO/IEC 42001SOC 2 Type II

Integrations

compatible tools
AWSAzureAzure ADCheckmarxCrowdStrikeGitHubGitLabGoogle CloudIBM QRadarJenkinsJiraKubernetesLinearMicrosoft DefenderMicrosoft SentinelMicrosoft TeamsMondayOktaOrca SecurityPagerDutyPalo Alto NetworksQualysRapid7SemgrepSentinelOneServiceNowSlackSnykSplunkTenableVeracodeWiz

Implementation & support

Deployment model
CloudHybridSaaS
Pricing structure
Custom / Enterprise
Support channels
Customer Success Manager (CSM)Email SupportKnowledge BaseTicketing Portal

Info last updated on May 28, 2026