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BreachLock Adds Human Verification Layer to Autonomous Penetration Testing for Machine Speed with Expert Accountability

BreachLock Adds Human Verification Layer to Autonomous Penetration Testing for Machine Speed with Expert Accountability

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A single toggle adds a certified BreachLock penetration testing expert as the final checkpoint on any autonomous pentesting engagement, giving teams that run their own assessments an optional layer of expert assurance.

BreachLock, a global leader in offensive security, announced that BreachLock AEV customers can now get human-verified results on any autonomous penetration testing engagement. One toggle adds a certified BreachLock penetration testing expert as the final checkpoint to review every objective, finding, and vulnerability, effectively eliminating false positives.

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One toggle adds a certified BreachLock penetration testing expert as the final checkpoint to review every objective, finding, and vulnerability, effectively eliminating false positives.

BreachLock Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) is the company’s agentic AI-powered autonomous pentesting solution trained on 40,000+ real-world penetration testing engagements. Its skilled agents think, adapt, and safely chain exploits across network and web environments in production the way a senior pentester would.

Customers rely on AEV to continuously prove which risks are exploitable and can be chained together with supporting evidence and targeted mitigation actions. Nothing about how AEV runs, exploits, or proves exploitability changes when the toggle is on. Human-verified results add an optional final checkpoint on top, for organizations that want expert accountability behind the deliverable, supplied by BreachLock rather than their own team.

Human-verified results are built for security teams that launch autonomous penetration testing engagements on their own schedule. BreachLock Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) remains the expert-led, AI-accelerated option, in which certified in-house pentesters direct the engagement, go deeper on business logic flaws and complex attack paths, and validate every finding by default. With AEV, the agents run the assessment, and the customer chooses whether a certified expert verifies the results before delivery.

“Our agentic AI autonomously runs entire penetration testing engagements end to end, at a senior pentester level, and I trust and stand behind what it produces on its own. But what no AI can do is take accountability for its own output,” said Seemant Sehgal, Founder & CEO of BreachLock. “Accountability is a human function, not a technical one — and our certified experts are willing to take it. That is not a hedge against our AI; it is a reflection of how confident we are in its output.”

Human-verified results are available now to all BreachLock AEV customers and can be requested with a single toggle, labeled “Get Human-Verified Results,” during engagement setup. BreachLock outlines the new human-verified results feature in a new blog post.

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