Cobalt vs. Intruder

Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service (PTaaS) and a leader in continuous offensive security testing grounded in human expertise. The Cobalt Offensive Security Platform spans the full spectrum of offensive security, from targeted, human-led pentesting to high-frequency, AI-driven autonomous security testing. Only Cobalt brings together the four critical elements of modern offensive security: elite human expertise, a context-aware platform, AI-powered orchestration, and the industry's largest dataset of real-world pentest results.

Intruder's continuous exposure management platform helps security, IT, and engineering teams stop breaches before they start. By unifying AI penetration testing, attack surface monitoring, cloud security, and vulnerability management in one intuitive platform, Intruder gives stretched teams an always-on security source of truth. Our approach focuses on continuous automated scanning using expertise and agentic solutions to ensure that the findings we deliver are accurate, prioritized by real-world risk, and ready to act on.