Synack has announced Sara Pentest, a new agentic AI product built on the Synack Autonomous Red Agent (Sara) architecture. Sara Pentest performs penetration testing on hosts and web applications, speeding up vulnerability detection and remediation and reducing the window of exposure from months to days. Organizations gain better overall test coverage and can meet the threat from AI-powered adversaries using open source agents to speed up their own offensive security operations.
Sara Pentest agents emulate real-world tester behavior to identify, validate, and prioritize exploitable risks at a scale that traditional pentesting can’t achieve.
Organizations can:
- Reduce cost – Use less expensive resources for basic security testing. Focus human pentesters on more complex tasks.
- Act quickly – Launch tests at any time. Respond immediately to product updates or Zero Days.
- Test at scale – Test as many assets as needed, without the limits of pentester availability.
- Guide human pentesters – Run initial tests using AI agents. Use results to guide human pentesters and focus their efforts.
“Humans and AI agents working together is the future of offensive security,” said Dr. Mark Kuhr, CTO of Synack. “Organizations can save time and money using our platform, as well as keep ahead of malicious hackers, who are also using AI to scale their operations.”
The Synack platform brings together human expertise and agentic AI to reduce enterprise attack surface risk at speed and scale. Sara Pentest helps customers by addressing the trade-off security teams face between scaling penetration testing coverage and the rising cost and effort it traditionally demands. It gives enterprises the flexibility to align testing with business risk, enabling them to discover and remediate exploitable vulnerabilities faster across a broader attack surface, all without straining resources or budgets.
Sara Pentest uses a collection of specialized AI agents to help run tests quickly and efficiently. A reconnaissance agent identifies open ports, web services and endpoints in play. A team of attack agents are deployed to attempt exploits in the same way as a human pentester. Verification agents re-test and confirm vulnerabilities, minimizing false positives. All exploitable findings are verified by a Synack triage team to confirm accuracy. The investigation is summarized in a downloadable report, with any exploitable findings summarized and made available in the platform.