Penetration Testing & Attack SimulationVulnerability Management
Synack PTaaS Platform
Pairs an autonomous AI red agent with vetted researchers who validate exploitable findings.
Synack PTaaS Platform Overview
What it does
The Synack PTaaS Platform delivers Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) that pairs an agentic AI pentesting agent, Sara (Synack Autonomous Red Agent), with the Synack Red Team, a vetted community of more than 1,500 security researchers. Sara handles reconnaissance, attack surface mapping, and initial exploit validation at machine speed, while researchers confirm which findings are genuinely exploitable. The result is continuous security validation across hosts, web and mobile applications, APIs, and cloud environments rather than point-in-time testing.
How it works
Sara runs a four-stage cycle: it discovers the attack surface, analyzes findings and maps attack paths, hands candidate exploits to the Synack Red Team for human validation, then delivers confirmed findings. A layered validation architecture enforces rules of engagement, blocks destructive commands, and bounds agents to approved scope. Continuous Attack Surface Discovery inventories hosts, web applications, and domain assets and flags changes, while a vulnerability operations team filters out noise. Testing runs as two-week, ninety-day, or year-round engagements, and findings flow into Jira, ServiceNow, and Azure DevOps with patch verification built into the remediation workflow.
Credentials and traction
The platform is FedRAMP Moderate authorized, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Synack holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, TX-RAMP Level 2 authorization, CREST accreditation, and IASME Cyber Essentials. Named a Leader and Fast Mover in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), and won a 2026 Global InfoSec Award as Trailblazer in PTaaS. Customers include Jack Henry, Allianz Direct, Varo Bank, and Freshfields, with additional deployments across U.S. federal and defense agencies.
Key Capabilities
mapped to solution categoriesInitiates penetration testing engagements through a platform interface without requiring a new statement of work for each test, enabling testing at the cadence of development releases.
Automatically re-executes test cases for specific findings after the reported remediation deadline, confirming closure without scheduling a separate engagement.
Delivers findings through a live client portal as testers discover them, with status, severity, and evidence, instead of a single static PDF at the end of the engagement.
Manages asset scope definitions, scope change approvals, rules of engagement, and testing windows through a persistent platform interface rather than per-engagement documentation.
Delivers findings directly into developer ticketing systems (Jira, GitHub Issues, Azure DevOps) alongside standard pentest reports, enabling developer remediation tracking within existing workflows.
Continuously enumerates internet-exposed assets (domains, IPs, subdomains, certificates, cloud storage, APIs) using passive DNS, certificate transparency logs, and active probing, including assets outside the official inventory.
Identifies cloud resources, SaaS applications, and exposed services deployed by business units without IT or security team visibility or approval.
Enumerates and monitors the attack surface of subsidiaries, acquired companies, and affiliated brands, common gap during M&A activity when new infrastructure is inherited without full visibility.
Identifies software stacks, versions, and components running on discovered assets through passive banner analysis and active probing, mapping CVE exposure without authenticated scanning.
Ranks discovered exposures by combining exploitability signals, asset business context, and active threat intelligence to produce an actionable remediation queue.
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Info last updated on July 26, 2026
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