CONTINUOUS PENETRATION TESTING
Instil's AI agents, directed and validated by our pen testers, deliver continuous, high-volume coverage across your applications and APIs. Our testers complete the programme with manual testing of the business logic no agent can reach.
the problem
The pace of software has changed. Testing hasn't caught up.
The annual pen test's shelf life is shrinking
A pen test only ever captures a single moment, and code moves fast enough now that the moment's gone before the report even lands.
Testing needs to surface issues as they happen
Code changes every day now, but most testing programmes still wait a year to identify what's wrong, leaving weeks of real exposure behind.
Adding more pen testers isn't the answer
More testers just means more snapshots, not different coverage, and they're too scarce to hire at scale, so the coverage gap gets wider.
the solution
Agents and experts, built as one programme
Two cadences over one scope. The agents never stop. Our pen testers go where agents can't reach.
Pen testers
Where agent coverage ends and a tester's reasoning begins.
- Business logic flaws and abuse of intended behaviour
- Chained exploits across separate low-severity findings
- Authentication and authorisation design
- Multi-tenant and role-boundary reasoning
- Judgement on impact in your commercial context
Agents
Continuous monitoring that scales with how fast your team moves.
- Full coverage across web apps and APIs
- Runs as often as your release cadence needs
- Checks at a scale manual testing can't match
- New exposures picked up as your code changes
- Every finding validated by a tester first
50%
faster time to remediation
2.6x
faster time to report
1:1
agentic finding / human review
How the programme runs, step by step
Scope
A senior tester defines what's in scope and what a genuine finding looks like before any agent runs, reducing false positives.
Run
Agents work continuously against that scope, surfacing vulnerabilities as they appear, not waiting for the next scheduled run.
Validate
Every agent-surfaced finding is validated by a senior tester before it's reported. Nothing reaches you unreviewed or unexplained.
Manual testing
Testers carry out their own manual testing in parallel, covering the business logic and judgement calls no agent can reach.
Track
Findings and remediation are tracked as an ongoing programme, not filed away per engagement, so nothing slips through the cracks.
human reporting
Clear findings, fast remediation
Every agent-surfaced finding is validated, false positives screened out and exploitability confirmed, before it's translated into plain language your team can act on.
- Critical Bulk export skips per-record permission checks Data export
- High Password change doesn't require current password Account
- High Internal API reachable from the public internet Network
- Medium File upload doesn't validate content type File handling
- Low Debug endpoint left enabled in production Web app
- Medium Session stays active after account deletion Lifecycle
- High Billing webhook trusts client-supplied amount Payments
Bulk export skips per-record permission checks
A CSV export streams every matching record before permission checks run per row, so a standard user can pull data belonging to other accounts simply by widening the date filter.
What our customers say about working with us
“Cyber security isn't a once-a-year exercise. Working with Instil gives us continuous independent assurance, helping us keep pace with an evolving platform and threat landscape.”
Ryan Murphy (CEO, Elecsys Technologies)
See it run against a scope you choose.
A demo walks through a live agent run, the validation step behind it, and a real report extract. Thirty minutes, with the pen testers who would own your engagement.
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