A snapshot once a year, or a movie all year
A great pentest is deep human creativity applied to a moment in time. Antrixis is continuous, automated reasoning that keeps watching the surface change between those moments.
Use both. A pentest brings human ingenuity and depth a few times a year; Antrixis keeps the attack-path picture current every day in between — and makes each pentest sharper by showing testers where to look.
Two different jobs
| Dimension | Annual pentest | Antrixis |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence | Point-in-time — a few weeks, once or twice a year. | Continuous — re-scans on a cadence, alerts on material drift. |
| Coverage over time | Accurate the week it’s done; ages with every deploy after. | Tracks the surface as it changes, so the picture stays current. |
| Cost to scale | Scales with expert hours — expensive to run often or broadly. | Scales with software — run it across your whole footprint, always. |
| Human creativity | Unmatched for novel, chained, business-logic exploits. | Automates the reasoning that’s repeatable; flags where humans should dig. |
| Output | A detailed report, then a scramble to remediate before it’s stale. | Live, ranked attack paths and trends you can act on continuously. |
| Best together | Validates depth and finds the creative edge cases. | Keeps coverage current and points the next test at what changed. |
When annual pentest is still the right call
We’d rather you trust us than oversell. These are the cases where the alternative genuinely fits — often alongside Antrixis, not instead of it.
Compliance & attestation
When a framework or customer requires a signed pentest report, you need the engagement. Antrixis doesn’t replace that artifact.
Deep business-logic flaws
Creative, multi-system logic abuse is where skilled human testers shine. Bring them — Antrixis tells them where the surface moved.
High-stakes, scoped targets
For a critical new system pre-launch, a focused manual test adds assurance automation complements but doesn’t fully replace.
Stop letting your security picture go stale for 11 months a year. Antrixis keeps attack-path intelligence current continuously — and makes every pentest you run land harder.
Start freeClose the gap between pentests
Keep attack-path intelligence current every day — not just the week after a test.