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Cobalt has concluded a record-breaking 2025, marked by significant scale, accelerated AI innovation, and top-tier industry recognition for its Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) platform. The company delivered over 31,000 testing days, grew its customer base by over 7%, and fortified its platform with a suite of new AI-powered capabilities designed to modernize the offensive security lifecycle.
Cobalt delivered over 31,000 testing days and nearly 255,000 testing hours in 2025.
The customer base grew over 7%, with strong mid-to-large enterprise adoption.
A suite of AI features launched, covering scoping, assistance, insights, and reporting.
The elite pentester community (Cobalt Core) expanded by 11% to over 500 experts.
The company secured 88 G2 badges, ranking #1 in nine categories including Penetration Testing.
Recognized in three separate Gartner Hype Cycle reports for the third consecutive year.
Cobalt's performance underscores the growing enterprise demand for continuous, modern pentesting. The company uncovered an average of 12 critical vulnerabilities per day while maintaining an exceptional pentest Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 9. This scale is supported by the strategic expansion of its Cobalt Core community of pentesters, which grew 11% to over 500 elite security experts.
A major technical focus in 2025 was the integration of AI across the pentesting workflow. New innovations include AI-Powered Scoping for identifying priority assets, an AI Pentest Assistant for summarizing findings, and AI-Driven Insights for benchmarking against industry peers. These capabilities aim to accelerate testing cycles, enhance the precision of assessments, and provide actionable guidance derived from over a decade of aggregated testing data.
The year also saw strategic leadership additions with Gunter Ollmann joining as CTO and Joseph Brinkley as Head of Offensive Security Research. This bolstered the company's technical vision and research depth. Industry validation was robust, with Cobalt earning 88 G2 badges, maintaining a Leader position in the GigaOm Radar for PTaaS, and receiving recognition across three Gartner Hype Cycle reports, reinforcing its market leadership.
Cobalt enters the new year positioned at the intersection of deep human expertise and AI augmentation, aiming to provide organizations with continuous, actionable insight into real-world security risk at the speed of modern business.
About Cobalt
Cobalt is the pioneer in penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in human-led, AI-powered offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 500+ trusted security experts, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely.
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