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AI-Only XBOW Pentesting Approach

XBOW is an AI-powered application security company. AI-only pentesting solutions promise time savings through automation, however, they often lack the depth, accuracy, and context security teams need. This has the potential to create a situation where AI, intended to reduce workload, generates more work as security teams must validate every AI-generated alert, prioritize based on flawed logic, and contextualize findings that lack proper business understanding. The result is not efficiency, but an added layer of quality control that is often even more time-consuming.

The Balanced NetSPI Approach

NetSPI has developed a balanced approach, combining AI technology with our 350+ in-house security experts to deliver industry-leading quality, speed, and scale. We strategically leverage AI where it provides value in our discovery and testing processes, while ensuring that critical security decisions remain grounded in human expertise and business context. This approach allows us to test your entire attack surface continuously, delivering the efficiency and scalability that AI enables while maintaining the depth, accuracy, and fidelity that only experienced security professionals can provide.

  • AI and Human Balance
  • Flexible Scaling
  • Higher Accuracy
  • Audit-ready Results

With over two decades of enterprise pentesting experience, we bring wide-ranging cybersecurity expertise to test anything from web apps to AI/ML models.

Key Advantages NetSPI identifies the most complex vulnerabilities, not only in web applications, but across your entire attack surface

  • AI and Human Balance: We strategically leverage AI where it provides value while ensuring that critical security decisions remain grounded in human expertise and business context.
  • Continuous and Comprehensive: AI enables continuous testing of your entire attack surface, providing real-time discovery while maintaining human depth, accuracy, and context.
  • Flexible Scaling: 350+ certified penetration testers give you the ability to scale testing according to your timeline and business needs. NetSPI pentesters are equipped to handle many testing environments, and excel in authenticated testing.
  • Higher Accuracy: Fewer false positives means less time spent by your security teams validating findings and faster remediation.
  • Audit-ready Results: Comprehensive reporting and real-time dashboards that go beyond check-the-box compliance requirements.

Features

XBOW

Maturity

Founded in 2024 (Series B company)

Founded in 2001 (Series C company)

Methodology

Autonomous AI-only testing

AI and Human Expertise Partnered Pentesting Approach

Breadth of expertise

AI-only web application security

350+ in-house pentesters with leading experts across multiple domains including Web App, Mobile App, API, Cloud, Network, Hardware, AI/ML, Mainframe and more

Reporting & Insights

AI-only generated discovery, validation, and contextualization which can get “sidetracked.”

Proven security experts with vast domain expertise leveraging manual and AI approaches to discover, validate, and contextualize.

Integrations

Vanta, SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners, and API.

Integrations with 1,000+ tools (Jira, Slack, AWS, and more) and API.

Remediation

Users handle remediations on their own.

Users handle remediations with human tester support, customizable SLAs, tagging, ticketing, assignment workflows, and one-click retesting.

Validation

AI-only validators.

Manual validation by in-house pentesters resulting in near-zero false positives.