Approach
Agentic coverage. Human judgment. Neither one alone.
APT builds two agentic platforms and uses them in-house: one for penetration testing, one for fractional CISO advisory. They are our intellectual property, not a white-labelled scanner, and we do not sell them. Every finding they surface is confirmed by a practitioner before it reaches your report.
The penetration testing platform
An exosuit for a senior tester, not a replacement for one.
A boutique firm has a structural problem. One principal tester has judgment that takes years to build and a working day the same length as everyone else's. Coverage is the thing that gets cut, quietly, and the client never sees what was skipped.
The platform attacks that specific problem. It is worn by a practitioner who already has the discernment to tell fact from fiction, and it gives that person the reach of a much larger team.
Specialized agents per domain
Web, mobile, network and cloud each get an agent tuned to that surface, running in parallel rather than in sequence. Nothing waits its turn at the end of the engagement.
A compliance agent
Weighs each finding against the regime you actually answer to. A SOC 2 auditor and a DoD prime care about different things, and severity should reflect that rather than a generic CVSS score.
Tiered QA
Findings pass through review stages before a human sees them, so the practitioner spends their time on the ones that survived rather than triaging noise.
Tooling built during the test
Exploit and tool development is pipelined, so an unusual target does not become a roadblock and then a paragraph in the report explaining why something was out of scope.
A scanner reports the findings. The engagement reports the route that connects them, which is the part that decides what to fix first.
With source access, we map your data flows first
When source code is available, the engagement starts by building a visualization of how data actually moves through your application. That map is the foundation of the analysis, and it is also a deliverable. Most clients have never seen one of their own system, and it tends to answer questions that were not on the scope document.
The advisory platform
We do not hand you a template. We build the one your business needs.
The fractional CISO platform reviews your network and your security program together, then produces a view of your technical organization, your ongoing obligations, and the gaps between what your program says and what it does.
Obligations get mapped across whichever regimes apply to you: SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX, HIPAA, ERISA, PCI DSS, NIST SP 800-171. Most companies answer to more than one and are tracking them in separate spreadsheets that disagree.
Downloadable policy templates are free and worth what you pay. The work is in knowing which controls apply to your business, what evidence an assessor will accept, and what to do first.
The constraint that matters
A person validates every finding before you see it.
This is the sentence the rest of the page depends on, so here is what it means concretely. An agent can gather evidence, chain a path, and draft a write-up. It cannot mark something as a finding. A practitioner reproduces the issue, confirms it is exploitable in your environment rather than in theory, and judges the real impact on your business.
If that step were removed the output would be faster, longer, and worth less. Anyone who has received a machine-generated pentest report knows what the failure looks like: forty findings, six of them real, and a remediation team that stops trusting the document by page three.
Straight answers
Questions technical buyers actually ask
- Does an AI write my penetration test report?
- No. Agents gather evidence and draft findings, and a practitioner confirms exploitability and verifies impact before anything enters a report. No finding reaches you without a person having reproduced it.
- Is this just a vulnerability scanner with a wrapper?
- No. Scanners match signatures against versions. The platform runs specialized agents per technical domain, chains findings into attack paths, and weighs each one against your actual compliance regime. Scanner output is one input among several, not the product.
- Can I buy the platform?
- No. It is internal tooling used in service delivery, not a product. You are buying an engagement, and the platform is how we deliver it.
- Does it make the test faster?
- No, and that is deliberate. It makes a test more thorough and more consistent in the same amount of time. Speed would mean less coverage, not more.
Bring us something difficult.
Tell us what you are worried about. If we are not the right fit we will say so.