Praetorian
Offensive security firm founded by former DoD professionals. Combines deep offensive testing with the Chariot attack surface management platform and its Exploit validation engine.
- Categories
- Penetration testing, Automotive cybersecurity, Attack surface management, Breach and attack simulation, Vulnerability management
- Based in
- Austin, United States
- Founded
- 2010
- Size
- 51-200 staff
- Ownership
- Private
About Praetorian
Praetorian is a cybersecurity company that provides continuous offensive security. It sells the Praetorian Guard platform, which combines agentic AI, workflow automation and offensive capabilities with its team of offensive security engineers. The platform covers attack surface management, vulnerability management, continuous penetration testing, red teaming, breach and attack simulation, and threat intelligence. It also offers red team exercises as a service. The company serves organisations worldwide, including large brands. It works by continuously discovering, validating and helping to remediate exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers can use them. Its agents are specialised and their tool boundaries are enforced in code. The platform aims to reduce cost, save time, eliminate noise and satisfy compliance requirements.
Products
- Praetorian GuardA platform that combines AI agents and offensive security engineers to find and help fix exploitable vulnerabilities.
- ChariotA continuous threat exposure management platform that identifies externally accessible security risks.
- Nosey ParkerAn open-source secrets detection tool.
- HannibalAn autonomous penetration testing agent for external and cloud attack surfaces.
- BrutusAn engine that finds identities, tests them where they are accepted, and remembers what it confirms.
- KnossosA procedural engine that generates decoy cloud environments to learn from attacker interactions.