Point-in-time testing leaves gaps
Last year’s test cannot see next month’s config, next quarter’s app, or the environment you just inherited.
Aludra
Continuous penetration testing. Proven exposure. Always-on validation.
Aludra continuously discovers, tests, exploits, and validates exposure across your environment, giving your team proof of what an attacker can actually use against you. Built from the methodology our operators use in real engagements, it turns a point-in-time exercise into a continuous view of exploitable risk.
Our operators lead. Aludra gives them the leverage to go further, faster, and more continuously.
The Open Security Experience
From exposure to evidence.
Aludra brings continuous testing into the Open Security Experience, helping your team discover what is changing, validate what is actually exploitable, act on proven risk, and continuously improve.
- 01DiscoverFind what is exposed.
- 02ValidateAludraProve what is exploitable.
- 03See & actPrioritize and remediate.
- 04ImproveRetest and strengthen.
The problem
Your environment doesn't stand still. Your testing shouldn't either.
Annual penetration testing answers an important question: what could an attacker exploit today? Tomorrow, your environment changes. Finding a vulnerability and proving an attacker can exploit it are two different things.
Scanning creates visibility, not always certainty
A scanner flags what might be vulnerable. Aludra tests whether it can actually be exploited.
Manual testing doesn't scale indefinitely
Aludra takes the continuous discovery and validation so operators spend time on judgment and complex paths.
How Aludra works
One framework. Continuous validation.
Aludra strengthens the Open Security Experience (Discover, Validate, See & act, Improve) and makes that process continuous. Operators stay in the loop for high-risk actions and findings that need human judgment.
01 · Discover
Continuously uncover what changed, and where exposure may exist.
Aludra evaluates your environment across applications, cloud infrastructure, Active Directory, services, and other in-scope assets. As the environment grows, it helps identify new assets, configurations, vulnerabilities, and attack paths that warrant deeper investigation.
Greater visibility into an attack surface that never stands still.
02 · Validate
Move from possible vulnerability to proven exposure.
Finding a vulnerability is only the beginning. Aludra researches attack paths, tests identified weaknesses, attempts real exploitation, and validates whether an exposure can actually be used by an attacker. Operators remain in the loop for high-risk actions and findings requiring human judgment.
Fewer assumptions, fewer false positives, and clear evidence of what represents real risk.
CVE-2017-0144 · SMB/445
EternalBlue
Possible
FlaggedEternalBlue
- CVSS 8.1 assigned
- Unproven in your environment
- Investigation still ahead
Proven
ExploitedEternalBlue
- Exploit confirmed
- Evidence attached
- Operator reviewed
- Attack path mapped
03 · See & act
Turn validated findings into clear priorities.
Validated exposure flows into the Portal so your team can understand what was found, why it matters, and what should happen next: prioritized, assigned, tracked, remediated, or accepted as business risk.
Actionable security intelligence your technical teams and business leaders can use.
- Aludra finding
- Portal
- Assigned action
- Remediation
04 · Improve
Validate the fix. Understand the trend. Keep moving forward.
Security does not end when a finding is closed. Aludra supports continuous retesting so teams can confirm remediation actually worked while continuing to evaluate the environment for new exposure.
Continuous improvement instead of another point-in-time snapshot.
Exploitable risk over time
RetestFix validatedClosed exposureExposure over time
The knowledge graph
See how proven exposure connects.
- Hosts
- Identities
- Credentials
- Attack paths
- Validated findings
- Evidence
When you need it
Built for environments that are changing.
Aludra is often the lowest-barrier way to start working with Open Security: a direct insert into a business situation, not a requirement to buy the entire platform first.
Mergers & acquisitions?
You inherit infrastructure, identities, and cloud you did not build, and may not yet know exist.
Know what you inherited before an attacker finds it for you.
Moving to the cloud?
Permissions, services, and attack paths change as you migrate. Aludra validates the environment you’re building.
Not the one you used to have.
Growing the organization?
More apps and infrastructure mean more exposure. Aludra expands testing capacity without expanding repetitive work.
More environment doesn’t have to mean more uncertainty.
Private equity portfolio?
Faster deals and cleaner exits at the firm. Continuous validation at the portcos, without a security-engineer army.
Clear inherited risk before it slows the deal, or the exit.
The difference
Exposure validation, not another vulnerability scanner.
Scanners identify possibilities. Aludra tests those possibilities.
We exploit and prove. We don't just inventory.
Prioritize based on what an attacker can actually do, not another severity score.
Traditional scanner
- Finds vulnerabilities
- Generates potential findings
- Applies severity
- Leaves investigation to your team
Aludra
- Discovers exposure
- Attempts exploitation
- Validates the finding
- Provides evidence
- Prioritizes proven risk
Human in the loop
AI does the groundwork. Operators make the calls.
Aludra uses AI and automation to expand the amount of discovery, research, testing, and validation that can happen continuously. Autonomous output is not the objective. Operators remain involved where judgment, context, high-risk actions, attack-path analysis, and final validation matter.
Automation creates scale. Operator judgment creates confidence.
Aludra
- Continuous discovery
- Research
- Repetitive testing
- Attack execution
- Validation at scale
Open Security operators
- Judgment
- Scope
- Complex attack paths
- High-risk approvals
- Adversarial review
- Remediation guidance
Validated exposure
- What is exploitable
- Why it matters
- Evidence
- Priority
- What to fix
- Whether the fix held
Operator-built
Built from the way our operators actually work.
Aludra is not an off-the-shelf AI penetration testing tool. It is an Open Security-built environment based on the tactics, techniques, and methodology our operators use during real engagements, the harness behind that work, not a replacement for it.
Operator-built methodology
Based on techniques used in real Open Security engagements.
Continuous discovery and validation
Testing continues as the environment changes.
Real exploitation
Move beyond theoretical vulnerabilities to proven exposure.
Human-reviewed findings
Operators remain in the loop where judgment matters.
Private infrastructure
Testing data remains within Open Security-controlled infrastructure.
Greater testing capacity
Automate repetitive testing while preserving expert judgment.
Improve
Continuous validation closes the space between engagements.
Your exposure does not reset after an annual penetration test. As infrastructure, applications, identities, and attack paths change, Aludra continues testing and validating what those changes mean from an attacker’s perspective.
- 01Discover
- 02Validate
- 03See & act
- 04Improve
- New exposure can be identified as it appears.
- Remediation can be retested.
- Vulnerability trends can be measured over time.
How you engage
One methodology. Continuous leverage.
Penetration testing gives expert depth. Aludra creates continuous leverage between those moments. They are complementary, not competing offerings.
Penetration testing
Aludra amplifies Open Security penetration testing by handling continuous discovery, research, and validation while operators focus on attacks, decisions, and complex paths that require human judgment.
Explore Penetration TestingContinuous validation
For organizations that need ongoing coverage, Aludra can continue operating between formal engagements, validating changes, identifying new exploitable exposure, and confirming remediation.
Talk to an operatorThe Open Security Experience
Validation is one part of knowing you're secure.
Stop waiting for the next assessment to find out what changed.
Your environment changes continuously. Aludra helps you continuously discover, exploit, validate, and understand the exposure created by that change, so your team can act on proven risk instead of chasing theoretical findings.