Continuous Adversarial Emulation
AI Agentic Pen Testing, On Demand.
Two decades of pen testing expertise, now automated.
Run a full external infrastructure pentest against your environment whenever you need it: with human-in-the-loop oversight at every phase and without breaking the bank or scheduling of a traditional engagement. Your annual pen test was a snapshot. This is the live picture on demand.
Founding Member Tier
Limited to the first 100 customers: $2,999 Pentest Starter by June 30, 2026
✅ Full External Infrastructure Pentest
3,000 tokens of agent activity- to fully test a typical external environment from reconnaissance through reporting
✅ Up to 250 External Assets in Scope
Domains, subdomains, IPs, and external-facing services. Define your scope, run the test
✅ Five-Phase Agent Methodology
Reconnaissance, vulnerability enumeration, exploitation, privilege escalation, and reporting – the same phases a senior pen tester would follow
✅ Proof-of-Concept Generation
When no off-the-shelf exploit exists, our agents write custom exploits. You see exactly what an attacker could write exploits or chain low risk vulnerabilities to own the environment
✅ Human-in-the-Loop Oversight
Agents find and propose. Humans decide and verify. Built with deliberate controls from day one – guardrails and controlled toolsets
✅ Compliance-Ready Evidence
Documented validation that an actual test was run against live infrastructure – built for the questions auditors and regulators ask for NYDFS, SEC, SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO frameworks
✅ Full Pen Test Style Report
Findings, severity, exploit paths, remediation guidance, and executive summary. The report your team would expect from a $30,000 engagement
Why Security Teams Choose NopSec Adversarial Emulation
Your annual penetration test is a snapshot from six months ago. Your environment changed the minute after the report landed. New services shipped. Subdomains spun up. A misconfigured S3 bucket appeared in production. By the time the next engagement is scoped, scheduled, and delivered, the snapshot is stale already.
NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation closes that gap. It is not a vulnerability scanner. It is a continuous validation- built on two decades of experience and recognized as a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Exposure Assessment Platforms. The adversarial emulation process is now automated through purpose-built AI agents that follow pen test methodology, with humans in the loop for governance and model guardrails.
Annual Pen Test vs. NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation
| Capability | Annual Pen Test | NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation |
|---|---|---|
| Test frequency | Once per year | On demand |
| Time to results | 6–10 weeks total | Hours, not weeks |
| Cost per test | $25,000–$100,000+ | $2,999 |
| Methodology coverage | Limited by consultant hours | Fully automated |
| Tester Expertise | Varies by consultant | Army of agents trained by experts |
| Proof-of-concept generation | Manual | ✓ Delivered on the fly |
| Threat intelligence | Consultant’s experience | ✓ 80+ threat intel feeds |
| Human oversight | Full | ✓ Human-in-the-loop |
| Scope changes mid-engagement | Change orders, added cost | ✓ Self service, re-define scope, re-run, on demand |
| Compliance evidence | Static PDF, dated on delivery | ✓ Documented, on demand retest |
| Repeatability | Each test is a one-off | ✓ On demand self service |
| Gartner Recognition (2025) | – | Visionary |
How NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation Works
The platform follows the same five phases a senior penetration tester would. Agents do the heavy lifting; humans stay in the loop at every consequential step.
1. Reconnaissance
Agents enumerate your external attack surface the way an adversary would – domains, subdomains, services, exposed assets, and the soft signals attackers actually look for
2. Vulnerability Enumeration
Findings are correlated against 80+ threat intelligence feeds, CISA KEV, EPSS, and exploit availability so the test focuses on what’s actually weaponizable
3. Exploitation
Agents attempt validated exploit paths in a controlled, scoped, time-bounded window. When no off-the-shelf exploit exists, a proof-of-concept custom exploit is developed on the fly
4. Privilege Escalation
The agents chain findings the way a real attacker would, surfacing the multi-step paths that single-vuln scanners and manual pen tests routinely miss
5. Reporting
A full pen test style report -findings, severity, exploit chains, remediation guidance, and an executive summary – delivered as the documented evidence your auditors and regulators expect
★ Human-in-the-Loop
Built in guardrails and model oversight for additional validation – every test, every phase
“The platform ingests all the data and tells us what matters upfront. We can finally patch less and fix more.”
– CISO, Media & Entertainment Company
Frequently Asked Questions
What is NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation?
NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation is an autonomous, multi-agent orchestration platform, uses autonomous AI agents to recon, reason, adapt, write custom exploits, and chain vulnerabilities together to emulate a human hacker’s decision-making process.
Purpose-built AI agents follow the defined penetration testing methodology for reconnaissance, vulnerability enumeration, exploitation, privilege escalation, and reporting – with human-in-the-loop oversight at every consequential step. Built on two decades of experience, the platform automates the manual work a senior tester would do. You get a full pentest engagement on demand, against your live external environment, in hours rather than the weeks a traditional pen test takes to scope, schedule, and deliver.
How is this different from a traditional penetration test?
A traditional pen test is a one-time, manual engagement that takes weeks to scope, weeks to execute, and weeks to report – and the moment the report is delivered, the picture is already stale. NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation runs the defined methodology with the same human accountability, automated through purpose-built AI agents and a human-in-the-loop review process. You get pen test findings, exploit chains, and reporting on the timeline your environment actually changes on, at a price point that makes continuous tests practical.
How is this different from a vulnerability scanner?
A vulnerability scanner produces a list of findings ranked by CVSS. NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation validates whether those findings are actually exploitable in your environment, the way an attacker would attempt them. The agents chain findings into multi-step exploit paths, generate proof-of-concept exploits on the fly when no off-the-shelf exploit exists, and produce a full pentest report with remediation guidance. Adversarial Emulation does not replace your scanner – the next question your scanner cannot: what would an attacker actually do with what you found?
What does NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation cost?
The Platform Starter is $2,999. That includes 3,000 tokens of agent activity, up to 250 external assets in scope, the full five-phase methodology, proof-of-concept generation, human-on-the-loop oversight, and a complete pentest report. If your team runs continuous tests or wants to integrate Adversarial Emulation results into a broader exposure management CTEM Program, our team can walk you through options..
What assets can I test?
NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation tests external infrastructure: public-facing domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and exposed services. The Platform Starter covers up to 250 external assets per test. You define the scope.
How long does a single test take?
Hours, not weeks. Most NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation complete the full five-phase methodology in a window measured in hours, depending on environment size and scope. What do I get in the report?
A full pentest report: an executive summary, the full list of validated findings ranked by exploitability, the multi-step exploit chains the agents constructed, proof-of-concept code where applicable, remediation guidance for each finding, and the documented evidence that an actual test was run against live infrastructure. The report is built for two audiences – your engineering team needs to fix the findings, and your auditors and executives need defensible documentation on risk and remediation.
Is my data secure during a test?
Yes. NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation operates under deliberate controls built in. Tests are scoped to IP ranges and assets you authorize. Tooling is controlled and time-bounded. Human oversight and model guardrails are embedded. Findings, exploit data, and reports are stored and governed under the data protection best practices, and audited by independent auditors for SOC2 Type II compliance.
Do I need to install anything?
No. NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation runs externally against your authorized scope – there is no agent to deploy, no appliance to rack, and no software to install in your environment. Onboarding consists of confirming your authorized scope and connecting any optional ticketing or evidence destinations.
Does this satisfy compliance requirements?
NopSec AI Agentic Adversarial Emulation produces documented evidence that a methodology-driven test was run against live infrastructure – exactly the artifact auditors look for under frameworks like NYDFS, SEC cybersecurity rules, SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001..
Who owns the results of the test?
Customers do. The findings, exploit data, proof-of-concept artifacts, and the final report are your property to use, share with auditors, and integrate into your remediation workflows.
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