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Security leaders struggle to measure real risk, often relying on vulnerability counts that don't reflect how attackers operate. Horizon3.ai addresses this with the launch of Threat Informed Perspectives, a new capability for its NodeZero® Offensive Security Platform. It enables organizations to define critical attacker footholds—like a stolen credential or compromised host—and run automated pentests to map the potential blast radius, measure time-to-impact, and validate if existing defenses contain the breach.
Horizon3.ai launches Threat Informed Perspectives for its NodeZero Offensive Security Platform.
It allows organizations to define critical attacker footholds and test their potential impact.
The platform runs automated, attacker-aligned pentests from these footholds to map blast radius.
It measures time-to-impact and validates if identity, segmentation, and EDR controls hold.
The goal is to shift from activity-based security (vulnerability counts) to outcome-based evidence.
New Pentesting Campaigns turn this into repeatable, measurable security programs.
Traditional security metrics often focus on inputs—like the number of vulnerabilities patched or tools deployed. Threat Informed Perspectives reorients the focus to outcomes: specifically, an organization's ability to contain a breach. By simulating realistic attacks from defined starting points, it provides executives with defensible evidence of whether their security posture is actually improving over time, moving the conversation from "we fixed X issues" to "we eliminated Y exploitable attack paths."
The capability works by allowing security teams to define the "footholds that matter most" in their environment. From each chosen foothold (e.g., a compromised DMZ host, a misconfigured cloud role), NodeZero automatically executes penetration tests that chain weaknesses into viable attack paths. It probes segmentation boundaries and exposes identity weaknesses to show exactly what an attacker could reach, how quickly, and whether defensive controls would fail. This provides a realistic, evidence-based view of risk.
To operationalize this approach, Horizon3.ai introduces Pentesting Campaigns. These allow organizations to turn Threat Informed Perspectives into repeatable, initiative-driven security programs—such as focusing on identity hygiene, cloud posture, or compliance validation. Campaigns track trends, catch regressions, and verify the impact of remediation efforts, providing a continuous "find, fix, verify" loop that demonstrates tangible risk reduction to boards, auditors, and insurers.
The launch of Threat Informed Perspectives represents a maturation in offensive security automation, moving beyond vulnerability discovery to continuous validation of defensive efficacy. By providing a framework to measure containment and prove improvement, it helps security teams align with business risk objectives and communicate their value in terms attackers understand. This empowers organizations to build cyber resilience based on evidence, not assumptions.
About Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai’s NodeZero® platform is trusted by over one-third of the Fortune 10, the world’s largest banks, top global pharmaceutical and semiconductor manufacturers, critical infrastructure operators around the globe, and the US Defense Industrial Base to proactively find, fix, and verify exploitable vulnerabilities to continuously fortify cyber defenses and improve cyber resilience. The fastest-growing cybersecurity company in America (Inc. 5000, Deloitte Fast 500), Horizon3.ai was founded by a mix of US Special Operations veterans and industry experts and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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