DEVOPSdigest

Cobalt announced the launch of Agile Pentesting, a new offering that provides more control and flexibility to better meet the needs of today’s businesses through versatile, ad hoc pentesting.

Agile Pentesting allows organizations to proactively identify and address vulnerabilities at a faster, more frequent rate to minimize risk. In contrast to what Cobalt calls Comprehensive Pentesting, which is often done in support of business drivers like compliance or M&A activity, the new offering helps accelerate customers’ DevOps journeys while aligning with their CI/CD pipelines.

Agile Pentesting allows organizations to focus on a specific area of an asset, such as a new feature or product release, specific vulnerability, or incremental testing. Other common use cases include delta feature testing, exploitable vulnerability testing, single OWASP category testing and microservice testing. Cobalt’s pentest offerings cover assorted use cases to provide holistic security testing with PtaaS.

“Agile Pentesting marks the next stage in the evolution of PtaaS,” said Russ Cobb, CMO of Cobalt. “Our customers were very clear in what they needed: pentesting that supports their own velocity of innovation. They don’t just pay lip service to DevSecOps, they’ve made it a reality. With this new offering, Cobalt is deepening its ability to meet the needs of modern security programs.”

Today’s businesses are contending with seismic shifts in the world of technology as well as what is broadly known as “the Great Resignation.” Agile Pentesting is a response to these market dynamics, applying the same principles of innovation and speed to allow customers to reap the following benefits:

- Maximize the output of security teams with smaller pentest engagements that often act as a “second set of eyes”

- Proactively identify and address security gaps at a faster rate to save time and minimize risk

- Accelerate secure build-to-release timelines by bringing pentesting closer to their SDLC

Customers can start running Agile Pentests in the Cobalt platform on October 3, 2022.