Cobalt vs. NodeZero from Horizon3

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.

Horizon3's NodeZero® platform empowers your organization to continuously find, fix, and verify your exploitable attack surface. Reduce your security risk by autonomously finding weaknesses in your network, knowing how to prioritize and fix them, and immediately verifying that your fixes work. NodeZero delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across your largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. No required agents, no code to write, and no consultants to hire.