Cobalt Human-Led, AI-Powered Pentesting is a Penetration Testing as a Service (PtaaS) platform that combines expert human pentesters with AI tooling to conduct application security assessments. The platform positions itself between fully manual and fully autonomous pentesting approaches. Human pentesters lead all engagements, while AI handles supporting tasks such as suggested actions, report writing, and data enrichment — freeing testers to focus on identifying complex, nuanced vulnerabilities. Key characteristics of the approach: - AI models are trained on over a decade of accumulated real-world pentesting data - Intelligent tester matching is used to assign appropriate expertise to each engagement - AI accelerates the process from discovery through to remediation reporting - Findings are delivered to development teams with actionable insights The platform, referred to as the Cobalt platform with AI Assisted Pentesting, is backed by the "Cobalt Core" — a community of vetted pentesters. It supports continuous security monitoring use cases, as well as on-demand and cadence-based testing for new and existing application releases. Cobalt also offers LLM/AI-specific pentest services, addressing the security of AI applications and large language model deployments. Supporting resources include a State of LLM Security Report and guidance on AI Safety vs. AI Security distinctions.