Sprocket Security | Why Sprocket

Why Sprocket

Everyone Has Agents Now.
Ask Who’s Accountable.

We published the rules ours run under.

The question stopped being whether AI can find a vulnerability — it can, and every vendor in this category now says so. The question is whether anyone can tell you what the agent did, where it was forbidden to go, why it stopped, and who checked its work. We publish all four, in a framework we wrote and hold ourselves to.

Every other model makes a compromise.

Sprocket takes the good parts of each and drops the trade-offs.

Point-in-time

A snapshot that ages fast

Fine for a compliance signature. Less useful the moment anything changes, and things change constantly.

Breaches that run past 200 days cost $1.33M more. The average breach lifecycle rose to 247 days in 2026. — IBM, 2026
PTaaS

A dashboard on the old model

Better reporting, same cadence. The platform is continuous; the testing usually isn’t.

A portal that refreshes quarterly is not an adversary who never logs off.
Fully automated

Fast, tireless, unaccountable

Automated tools are genuinely good at finding a path, and getting better fast. What they don’t do is stand behind the answer. Nobody’s name is on the finding, and nobody can tell you what the tool decided not to tell you.

Reliance on fully automated testing fell from 29% to 9% in a year. — Cobalt, 2026
Agentic, ungoverned

Autonomy without a paper trail

The newest entrants run capable agents in production and describe the guardrails in a sentence or two on a product page. Ask for the scope-enforcement mechanism, the kill-switch bound, or the audit trail the agent cannot reach, and there is usually nothing to read.

We wrote ours down. v1.0, versioned, public.

Built for how attacks actually happen.

Technology for scale. Humans for accountability.

Our platform runs discovery and testing around the clock. Then a named penetration tester of our own chains exploits, validates impact, and signs off before anything reaches you. Not a robo-report full of theoretical risk.

A safety framework you can actually read.

Seven required properties, four lifecycle phases, a named failure mode for each, and a crosswalk to the OWASP Autonomous Penetration Testing Standard. Published, versioned, and open to being used against us.

Context-aware, not generic.

We test how an attacker would move through your environment — the difference between "here's a CVE" and "here's how someone walks from your perimeter to your crown jewels."

Change detection that never sleeps.

New asset, new deployment, new exposure — we see it and test it, so coverage tracks reality instead of the renewal date. One customer: "Things we only see every so often, they see twice a week."

Unlimited retests, and no coin-operated pricing.

Fixed something? Prove it, as many times as you need, at no charge. No re-scoping, no new SOW, no per-test or per-scope-change invoice.

Our own testers who stay on your account.

Not a marketplace of strangers rotating through your environment each quarter. The same people, gaining context every engagement.
Cadence

Attackers don’t keep a calendar. Neither should your penetration testing.

Annual pentest~20 days tested / year
Sprocket continuous365 days tested / year

A once-a-year pentest leaves roughly 345 days untested. Adversaries are more than happy to work those 345 days.

We pioneered Continuous Penetration Testing: expert-led offensive testing combining the best of AI agents, technology, and expert penetration testers that runs year-round, adapts as your environment changes, and answers “are we secure right now?”, not just “were we secure the week of the audit?”

In our words

What does continuous penetration testing mean to Sprocket?

It means your environment is tested year-round by real penetration testers, not sampled once and shelved until the next contract. As your attack surface shifts — new assets, new code, new exposures — we detect the change and test against it, so coverage keeps pace with reality instead of the calendar. Automated tooling handles scale and speed; our human experts handle judgment, chaining exploits, reasoning about your business, and validating what actually matters before anything reaches your report. And it genuinely never stops: unlimited retests, on-demand attestation, a live portal, and a published framework that tells you exactly what our agents are permitted to do.

“Are we secure right now?” becomes a question you can answer any day of the year — and “how do you know?” becomes one we can answer in writing.

Why it matters (with receipts)

Real risk is a person stringing weaknesses together.

$11.5M
IBM, 2026

the U.S. average cost of a data breach, up 14% year over year and an all-time high. Continuous testing is a rounding error against that number.

247 days
IBM, 2026

the average time to identify and contain a breach, up in 2026 and reversing five years of progress. Breaches past 200 days cost $1.33M more.

29% → 9%
Cobalt, 2026

the collapse in organizations relying entirely on automated testing, in a single year. 78% report automated scanners missing critical vulnerabilities.

64%
Omdia, commissioned by Synack, 2026

of U.S. security leaders name agent-led pentesting with human oversight as their preferred model. (n=200)

65%
Sprocket, 2026

faster time to remediate using Sprocket Security over the industry average.

Proof, not vibes

Credentials that hold up.

AICPA SOC 2 CREST approved GigaOm Radar Outperformer 2025 Global InfoSec Awards Winner 2026 SourceForge Top Performer Spring 2026 Fortress Cyber Security Award 2026 Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) CISSP, ISC2

Trusted by teams keeping pace as they evolve:

Stop testing on a calendar. Start testing like an attacker.

Attackers are continuous. Now your testing can be too — and you can read exactly how it works before you buy.