Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
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Cybersecurity

Ethiack

Ethiack

Ethiack

Ethiack continuously tests and validates what attackers can actually exploit.

Ethiack
  • Company

    Ethiack
  • Founders

    Jorge Monteiro, André Baptista, Vítor Pinho
  • Year

    2022
  • Website

  • E-mail

  • Hub

    Asprela I
  • Industries

    Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
    SaaS & Software
    Cybersecurity

SUMMARY

Ethiack is an autonomous offensive security platform that continuously validates vulnerability exploitation risks across the entire attack surface. Combining hacker intelligence with AI agents, Ethiack provides clear visibility into what is actually exploitable, enabling security teams to prioritize and resolve critical risks before they're attacked. We eliminate noise and false positives, ensuring organizations focus their efforts on what truly matters. With a continuous, exploitation-driven approach, we help drastically reduce the exposure window and quantify cyber risk, delivering constant security, faster remediation, and demonstrable ROI for decision-makers.

PROBLEM

Security fails because exposure evolves faster than traditional testing cycles, creating unknown, exploitable risks. Security teams face three critical challenges:
- Visibility: The attack surface keeps growing continuously, making it hard to know what's actually exposed.
- Validation: Most vulnerabilities identified by traditional scanners are just noise, with no proof of real exploitability. Teams waste precious time validating false positives.
- Velocity: Attackers move faster, using automation and AI, while remediation processes remain slow.
Teams are overwhelmed, without knowing what's genuinely critical. The lack of focus on validated, exploitable risks prevents effective protection of business assets and drives team fatigue.

SOLUTION

Ethiack works through the "See, Test, Act" model:
- See: Continuous mapping of the entire attack surface, including external, internal, and third-party assets.
- Test: We use Hackian, our autonomous AI agent system that "thinks" and "acts" like an attacker. Unlike scanners, Hackian tests and validates real exploitability, chaining vulnerabilities and building dynamic payloads to prove risk.
- Act: We turn data into actionable risk, with proof-of-exploit and clear mitigation guidance.
The impact is transformative:
- Noise elimination: We reduce scanner noise and false positives by 90%, with 99.5% precision in identifying exploitable vulnerabilities.
- Speed: We reduce remediation time (MTTR) by 80%, focusing the team on real threats.
Efficiency: Saves 8 hours per week, per security engineer, by eliminating manual validation.
- ROI: Delivers over 200% annual ROI through calculated cyber risk reduction and the replacement of multiple ineffective tools.
By automating offensive security, organizations gain confidence, reduce their exposure window from months to hours, and stay one step ahead of attackers.

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