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BreachLock today introduced Breach360™, its agentic AI-powered autonomous penetration testing solution. Breach360 helps organizations continuously validate security controls, prove exploitability, and prioritize remediation across modern attack surfaces.

Breach360 brings autonomous penetration testing to the BreachLock Unified Platform, joining its Attack Surface Management (ASM) and Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) solutions. This milestone makes BreachLock the only offensive security provider unifying continuous ASM, certified, expert-led penetration testing, and autonomous penetration testing in a single workflow. Security teams can now discover what’s exposed, validate what’s genuinely exploitable, and continuously test what matters most, informed by intelligence from more than 40,000 real-world penetration testing engagements and trusted by over 1,200 organizations worldwide.

Breach360 directly addresses a growing industry challenge: disconnected tools and alerts that provide little clarity about what is truly exploitable. Rather than generating another list of vulnerabilities, Breach360 validates real attack paths, confirms exploitability with documented evidence, and provides prioritized guidance on where organizations should focus remediation efforts.

Breach360 brings production-safe autonomous penetration testing across both web and network environments into a single experience, giving organizations a unified view of exploitable risk across their attack surface. Security teams can continuously validate both application and infrastructure security without managing disconnected tools.

Key Capabilities of Breach360

• Autonomous Penetration Testing powered by agentic AI trained on intelligence from more than 40,000 real-world penetration tests.
• Proof of Exploitability, helping teams focus on validated risk instead of false positives.
• Unified Web and Network Pentesting Coverage, enabling continuous validation of infrastructure and application attack surfaces through a single solution.
• Threat-Informed Security Validation aligned with real-world attacker behavior and MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
• Real-Time Attack Path Visibility, allowing organizations to observe how vulnerabilities can be chained together to create business risk.
• Production-Safe Autonomous Testing, with lateral movement and exploitation approvals, scope controls, guardrails, and kill-switch capabilities.
• Optional Human-Verified Results, allowing organizations to add a certified BreachLock pentester as a final review checkpoint for findings and recommendations.
• Prioritized Mitigation Guidance based on attacker logic and exploitability, not vulnerability scores alone.
• Executive and Technical Reporting that transforms security findings into actionable remediation plans and board-ready insights.

Breach360 ensures that autonomous penetration testing does not mean giving up control. Security teams define scope, approve sensitive actions, set engagement parameters, and maintain oversight throughout the testing lifecycle. For teams requiring additional assurance, Breach360 offers optional expert review from certified BreachLock pentesters, combining the speed of autonomous execution with the accountability of certified, in-house penetration testing experts.

The launch of Breach360 reflects BreachLock’s continued investment in offensive security innovation and its vision for a future where organizations can continuously validate security controls through intelligent, scalable, and threat-informed testing.

Breach360 is available immediately through the BreachLock Unified Platform. For more information or to schedule a demo, visit www.breachlock.com.

BreachLock, the only offensive security platform combining agentic AI-powered autonomous penetration testing, expert-led, agentic AI-accelerated penetration testing services, and continuous Attack Surface Management (ASM), today announced the release of its 2026 Penetration Testing Intelligence Report, the company’s fifth annual analysis of real-world security findings across global organizations. Based on data from 4,970 penetration tests and 531,770 individual security findings, the report provides a comprehensive analysis of the vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and emerging risks shaping the cybersecurity landscape in 2026 and beyond.

Among the report’s most significant findings is the emergence of AI as a major enterprise attack surface. BreachLock’s inaugural AI penetration testing dataset found that 100% of AI applications tested contained vulnerabilities aligned with the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. Prompt injection (LLM01) was the most prevalent and impactful finding in the dataset, present in 28% of tested applications.

The report also identifies a sharp shift in how attackers are targeting web applications. Insecure Design and business logic flaws (OWASP A04) rose from 8% to 16% of findings year over year, a trend-defining increase in the 2026 web application dataset. Testers observed attackers exploiting race conditions in checkout flows, escalating privileges through parameter manipulation, and bypassing approval workflows outright. These issues do not appear on automated scanner reports. Finding them requires testers who understand how an application is supposed to behave and can reason through how that logic can be subverted.

Cloud environments produced the highest concentration of severe risk in the dataset. Cloud security audits carried a Critical finding rate of 1.34%, thirteen times higher than the rate found in web application testing, driven largely by exposed S3 buckets, leaking Lambda functions, and disabled GuardDuty monitoring.

Mobile applications showed a similarly narrow but severe risk profile. Hardcoded credentials in iOS applications accounted for 97% of all Critical mobile findings this year. These credentials can be extracted with free, publicly available tools in minutes, and credential-related vulnerabilities continue to be a top attack vector in headlines this year.

The report also highlights industry-specific risk trends across manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, retail, and technology organizations.

BreachLock’s 2026 report is designed to help security leaders benchmark their programs against real-world offensive security data while providing actionable recommendations for reducing exposure through continuous testing, adversarial validation, cloud governance, mobile application security, and AI security assessments.

Download the BreachLock 2026 Penetration Testing Intelligence Report or read the blog for highlights.

BreachLock announced today that BreachLock AEV customers can now get human-verified results on any autonomous penetration testing engagement. One toggle adds a certified BreachLock penetration testing expert as the final checkpoint to review every objective, finding, and vulnerability, effectively eliminating false positives.

BreachLock Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) is the company’s agentic AI-powered autonomous pentesting solution trained on 40,000+ real-world penetration testing engagements. Its skilled agents think, adapt, and safely chain exploits across network and web environments in production the way a senior pentester would.

Customers rely on AEV to continuously prove which risks are exploitable and can be chained together with supporting evidence and targeted mitigation actions. Nothing about how AEV runs, exploits, or proves exploitability changes when the toggle is on. Human-verified results add an optional final checkpoint on top, for organizations that want expert accountability behind the deliverable, supplied by BreachLock rather than their own team.

Human-verified results are built for security teams that launch autonomous penetration testing engagements on their own schedule. BreachLock Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) remains the expert-led, AI-accelerated option, in which certified in-house pentesters direct the engagement, go deeper on business logic flaws and complex attack paths, and validate every finding by default. With AEV, the agents run the assessment, and the customer chooses whether a certified expert verifies the results before delivery.

Human-verified results are available now to all BreachLock AEV customers and can be requested with a single toggle, labeled “Get Human-Verified Results,” during engagement setup. BreachLock outlines the new human-verified results feature in a new blog post.

To learn more about BreachLock AEV and the company’s suite of offensive security solutions, visit BreachLock.com.