Pentera Core

TESTING TYPES

Proactively test your security against any threat

Select the test that matches the threat you want to validate.

Penetration Testing (Black Box)
What-if (Grey Box)
Ransomware Emulation
AD Password Assessment (ADPA)
OWASP Top 10 Testing
CISA KEV Targeted Tests

Run safe, assumed-breach penetration tests without prior knowledge of the environment or credentials to identify the most critical exploitable vulnerabilities tied to real-world attack techniques. Testing focuses on exposures leading to remote code execution and privilege escalation and is continuously updated using industry frameworks and threat intelligence, including MITRE, CVEs, NIST, and CISA, enriched by Pentera’s in-house research.

Assess blast radius by running targeted penetration tests that assume an attacker has already obtained valuable access, such as user credentials. Safely understand the impact of an initial breach and how far an attacker could progress within the environment.

Run precise ransomware attack emulation to identify exposure against known threats groups. Validate your security against a wide range of ransomware strains such as REvil, Conti, Maze, LockBit 3.0, CI0p, BlackCat (ALPHV), Play and more.

Evaluate the real strength of your entire active directory by safely cracking password hashes offline. Identify accounts that comply with password policy but remain exploitable by attackers using modern cracking techniques.

Identify and validate exploitable vulnerabilities in web application interfaces by mimicking real attacker behavior. Test against the OWASP Top 10 using multiple fuzzing and exploitation techniques to uncover high-risk weaknesses.

Validate exposure to vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild by targeting entries from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Quickly determine whether known threats can be leveraged in your environment and how they can be prevented.

Customer reviews

What teams see after running Pentera

"Pentera's password-cracking capabilities, which effectively test even complex credentials, allow us to verify that employee passwords are not only compliant but also resilient against modern cracking techniques."

IT Security and Risk Management

Telecommunications

"The best solution for automated pentesting. It's a very capable tool. It's fast and easy to use. Clearly readable reports are provided."

Cybersecurity Engineer

Aviation

"Thanks to Pentera, we have been able to identify key areas for improvement, apply mitigations and then quickly re-assess to validate the fixes impact. This allowed us to achieve a quick return on investment within our first few months of usage."

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Manufacturing

“When Pentera came into our environment, we never imagined it would be possible to enumerate and crack a domain admin account - but once we saw it happen, our eyes were opened. It was a real “wow” moment.”

Richard Lee

Director of Cybersecurity

“Pentera Core accurately replicates real-world attacker techniques, providing a true picture of the organization's security posture.”

Director of Cyber Defense

Financial Services

"Pentera has changed my executive reporting for the better. Being able to utilise Pentera to better explain the security controls and investments made by executives has improved my working life dramatically.”

Grant B.

Threat and Vulnerability Manager

“Partnering with Pentera was a great decision for our team. I don’t think that we’d be able to advance our red team along if we didn’t have that partnership there. If somebody is looking to partner with Pentera or find a way to improve their pen testing, I would definitely recommend checking them out. It’s just fantastic.”

Owen Fuller

Cybersecurity Engineering Manager

“Pentera enables us to efficiently conduct highly automated pentests on our hybrid networks and improve our overall security posture. Due to the high efficiency of Pentera, we are able to deliver security assessments with a low headcount.”

IT Security and Risk Management

Manufacturing

"Great pentesting tool to protect your company. It allows us to compare and remediate vulnerabilities. It gives us a perspective of how secure our systems are and what to improve on.”

Information Security Manager

Financial Services

“Best security tool to improve the security posture of your organization. Over the years, it has proven to be a great and essential tool to manage and test our security posture.”

SOC Manager

Consumer Goods

“Pentera makes security easy. It gives me the ability to validate all of my security posture in one application.”

Andrew H.

Chief Executive Officer, Managed Security Services

"The AD assessment keeps us at the best level of user passwords as we communicate and help users to set strong passwords. We do like that there is a "how to" to reinforce our security posture based on Pentera capabilities."

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Telecommunications

“Pentera makes it easier to address the most important issues instead of overwhelming teams with massive lists of vulnerabilities. Pentera significantly helped us identify security findings quickly, including password vulnerabilities in Active Directory. We were able to address these and pass them on to the appropriate support teams.”

Andreas Melzer

Head of Security

"We have evaluated multiple products and Pentera's came on-top. The deployment was very quick and straightforward. We were able to see valuable results right away. We also saw cost reductions in ongoing red-team efforts."

Dr. InfoSec

IT Services

“In higher ed, we’re dealing with decentralized IT, thousands of endpoints, and constant change. Pentera helped us see which vulnerabilities were actually exploitable across campus networks instead of chasing every CVE. That shift alone changed how we prioritize remediation.”

Information Security Manager

Higher Education

“What I love the most about it is that it carries out complete VAPTs with the utmost simplicity, and by analyzing the vulnerabilities, proposes the necessary remediations in a clear and timely manner.”

Alfio S.

Cybersecurity Analyst, Financial Services

"Pentera's pentesting software is a must have tool for any IT Security team!"

IT Security and Risk Management

Energy and Utilities

“All the achievements Pentera gets are actionable! No more asking IT Admins and Developers to patch things that can be exploited in your environment. It brings agility to your vulnerability/exploitability management processes. New exploits are released with every new version and seems to be up to pace with current trends.”

Raphael R.

SOC Manager, Financial Services

"Capabilities such as the ransomware emulation test help us assess the effectiveness of our EDR and other security solutions. All the findings and vulnerabilities were presented in a detailed and easily understandable manner. This allows us to determine which vulnerabilities require priority attention."

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Telecommunications

“We already had vulnerability management in place. What Pentera gave us was visibility into real attack paths in our hybrid environment. Seeing what was truly exploitable, and then revalidating after remediation, made our risk discussions a lot more concrete.”

Cybersecurity Risk Manager

Insurance

"The ability of the tools to lessen the time of penetration testing versus the manual way. The validation has unique features that most VA doesn't have. With this tools, you can manage at ease and implement and deploy the software in just a few hours.”

Regidor R.

Lead System Engineer, Manufacturing

“We assumed our security controls would block most realistic attack paths. Pentera showed us how an attacker could move from a low privilege foothold to privilege escalation and lateral movement across critical systems. Being able to emulate ransomware scenarios safely in production made the gaps impossible to ignore.”

Director of Cybersecurity

State Government

"This solution exceeds our expectations in terms of visibility and demonstration. It allows us to correct exploitable flaws and write our action plans easily. Configuration is easy, reports are comprehensive, and actions to take are well documented."

Head of Security and Architecture

Healthcare and Biotech industry

“Our logistics infrastructure runs 24/7, so we can’t rely on downtime heavy testing. Pentera allowed us to emulate real world attack scenarios against operational systems and confirm whether our defenses would actually prevent disruption.”

IT Security Manager

Global Logistics Company

“The platform provides clear visibility into our security posture through continuous, realistic attack simulations, helping us identify and prioritize real risks. It is stable, easy to operate, and delivers ongoing value beyond traditional pt.”

IT Associate

Construction

“Pentera became a performance amplifier for our team, allowing us to deliver significant value to upper management with a small, condensed team. The wow moment for me with Pentera was the savings around the ransomware modules—we’re now saving millions of dollars every time we run a ransomware test.”

Shawn Baird

Director

"Peace of mind! Pentera brings continuous visibility and valuable insights. In addition to constantly updating its innovative platform, Pentera has a partner attitude in its DNA and works closely with customers to improve its products."

João Paulo T.

Information Security Manager

"We are very satisfied: asset compliance is regularly verified as well as our resilience to new attacks."

Chief Information Security Officer

Real Estate

“Pentera solves the problem of identifying and prioritizing security vulnerabilities by automating penetration testing and providing continuous security validation. This benefits us by ensuring that we can detect and address critical threats in real-time, enhancing our overall security posture and efficiency in remediation efforts.”

Rubén L.

Security Analyst and Pentester

“In an environment defined by complexity, scale, and constant attack possibilities, Pentera delivers the speed and visibility security teams need.”

João Paulo Talvo de Carvalho

Azul Airlines

"This tool made my day 100X quicker. Using Pentera allows me to shorten the time it takes to assess my customers from weeks to days, it's irreplaceable in our workload.”

Jordan G.

Security Consultant, Cybersecurity Services

"Best Automated Security Validation Solution In The Market! Pentera’s automated security validation platform is extremely intelligent and simplifies operations significantly."

IT Cybersecurity Analyst

Energy and Utilities

"The innovative solution to take IT security to a new level. Pentera is an easy-to-use but powerful and necessary IT security solution.”

Head of IT Security

Internet Services

"Gain visibility and remediation of weaknesses before an attacker has a chance to!״

Security Engineer

Enterprise

“Providing even small Teams with the means of finding and prioritizing relevant attack paths and remediation measures.”

Information Security Lead

Retail

"This automated red team activity saved us! it helps detect vulnerabilities we never thought existed in our network and it challenges our security systems on a regular basis so we are always on top of things."

Systems Team Leader

Healthcare and Biotech

"Pentera is easy to use, and unlike other products it allows you to validate vulnerabilities in production without fear. Pentera allows you to save time by obtaining effective results.”

Information Security Manager

Healthcare

“Fully automated pentesting solution with attack scenarios, proof of concept, non destructive and with automated cleanup. I would never change that solution for another one!”

Director, IT Security and Risk Management

Healthcare and Biotech

"With Pentera, you can emulate ransomware in your business environment in a safe manner. This is what our organization was looking for.”

Cybersecurity Risk Manager

Banking

"Our experience with Pentera has been very positive. The platform has allowed us to move from occasional, highly manual penetration tests to a more continuous and automated validation of our security controls. It provides realistic attack paths, and helps us demonstrate our security posture to both technical teams and management."

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

Telecommunications

"Pentesting Just Got Better with Penetra! The time it saves versus the manual way. We were able to run more scans and spend less. The features are great and the support is very likely responsive.”

Raymond C.

Systems Engineer

“We run complex multi cloud and CI/CD environments, and assumptions break fast at that scale. Pentera identified exploitable attack chains in production that traditional scanning never surfaced. That level of continuous validation is now part of our release confidence.”

Head of Security Engineering

Global Technology Company

“I love the fact that everything is automated and can be scheduled to our liking make it very easy to use continuously. The wide range of scenarios and how customizable they are allow to cover a lot of use cases easily is also very appreciable. The attack path for every achievement/exploit is always detailed, with references to security standards/remediation steps helping us a lot in understanding what we have to do to fix the vulnerabilities/misconfigurations in our environment.”

Cybersecurity Engineer

Manufacturing

Close internal network gaps before they become a breach

Unified security validation and remediation

Validate exposure, reduce risk

Attack path root cause analysis

Credential-based access validation

Privilege escalation testing

Attack map visualization

Security control assessment

Executive & compliance reporting

Proactively test your security against any threat

Exposure validation for every security role

What teams see after running Pentera

Resources based on internal attack runs

Frequently asked questions

Close internal network gaps before they become a breach

Unified security validation and remediation

Validate exposure, reduce risk

Attack path root cause analysis

Credential-based access validation

Privilege escalation testing

Attack map visualization

Security control assessment

Executive & compliance reporting

Proactively test your security against any threat

Exposure validation for every security role

What teams see after running Pentera

Resources based on internal attack runs

Frequently asked questions

Validate your real exposure