how it works
Specialized AI agents run a seven-phase pipeline — static analysis, reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, exploitation, and chain analysis — and hand back deterministic proof-of-exploit with a one-line fix. Not a pile of alerts. Not a severity score. It runs in your environment — your code never leaves.
the pipeline
read the code before probing the service
Seven SAST engines plus a whitebox LLM reviewer read the repo, emit hypotheses, and seed every later phase with ground truth.
7 SAST engines · 1 reviewer
map the surface across 9 OSI layers
Fifty-plus Kali tools, orchestrated as a single plan, map the attack surface from layer-3 up to application. Output feeds phase 4 so vuln agents probe only what exists.
50+ kali tools · 9 osi layers
pqc + cbom inventory
Emits a Cryptographic Bill of Materials and flags anything a CRQC would break. Quiet phase; mostly reads configs, certs, and library calls.
cbom · pqc posture
16 agents, concurrent, budgeted
Sixteen specialist agents fan out on the surface from phase 2, each with a focused prompt and tool set. They run concurrently under a rate budget and emit hypothesis-level findings with evidence.
16 agents · concurrent
prove impact with safe proofs
Sixteen exploit agents confirm hypotheses with safe, evidence-only proofs-of-impact — boolean and time oracles, scoped payloads, redacted captures. Mediums get upgraded to confirmed; anything unprovable is dropped.
16 exploit agents · evidence-only
individually medium. chained, critical.
Chain-analyzer walks the confirmed-findings graph and proposes multi-step attack chains; cross-validator rejects any chain that fails an independent replay. This is where separate medium findings combine into one critical exploit.
chain analysis · cross-validated
html · json · md · cvss · compliance
De-duplicates findings, attaches evidence, scores CVSS v3.1, and maps to OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 CC-series. Emits the artifact set a human pentester would ship.
html · sarif · md · compliance
integrations + compliance
Findings auto-mapped to 14 compliance frameworks. Audit prep as a byproduct of every scan.
comparison
What changes when you replace the scan-and-triage loop with continuous, proof-first autonomous pentesting.
| Without Sekura | With Sekura | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | Ranked list of potential issues; CVSS scores divorced from your environment | List of exploited issues, each with a deterministic proof-of-exploit |
| False positives | Inherent — scanners flag what might be vulnerable, your team validates each | Eliminated by construction — Sekura only reports findings it has actually exploited |
| Scope | SAST or DAST or SCA — one surface per tool, one tool per vendor | SAST + DAST + exploit chaining + LLM-security + post-quantum crypto in one scan |
| Cadence | On-demand or scheduled — weekly at best, annually for manual pentests | Continuous — every push, every PR, optionally every hour |
| Triage burden | Hours per finding to validate, prioritize, and fix | Zero — every finding ships with the payload that demonstrates it |
Autonomous penetration testing uses specialized AI agents to find and exploit vulnerabilities in a target system without a human pentester driving each step. Sekura runs a 7-phase pipeline — white-box SAST, recon, post-quantum crypto review, dynamic probing, exploit synthesis, chain analysis, and reporting — and verifies each finding by actually exploiting it.
Vulnerability scanners output a list of potential issues ranked by severity score. Sekura verifies each finding through actual exploitation and only reports what it can prove. If a vulnerability cannot be exploited in the target environment, Sekura does not report it. The result is a short, ranked list of real, exploitable issues instead of thousands of theoretical alerts.
No. Every reported finding includes a deterministic proof-of-exploit — the exact request, payload, and response that demonstrates the vulnerability is real. If Sekura cannot produce a proof, the finding is not reported.
A manual pentest is a point-in-time engagement that takes weeks and costs $30,000 to $150,000 per cycle. Sekura runs continuously, covers the whole attack surface, and updates as your environment changes. Both produce proofs-of-exploit; only Sekura runs every hour.
Sekura works with Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT models. LLM calls are routed through proxy.sekura.ai so customers see exact token counts and pay one metered cost. Self-hosted Enterprise deployments can use private model endpoints.
No. The scanner runs entirely inside your GitHub Actions runner (cloud distribution) or behind your firewall (enterprise distribution). Sekura sees prompts and responses to the LLM proxy but never your repository contents. Findings are uploaded; source code is not.
The scanner CLI and agent runtime are source-available. The orchestration platform, dashboard, and managed cloud are commercial. See github.com/sekuraai for the public components.
Sekura combines application security testing (SAST + DAST + exploit chaining) with LLM-security testing (prompt injection, jailbreak, data exfiltration) and post-quantum cryptography review (crypto-agility audits flagging quantum-vulnerable algorithms) in a single scan. Most tools cover one of these surfaces; Sekura covers all three.