Synack

What the company sells

Synack delivers continuous penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) that combines agentic AI, the Synack Platform and the Synack Red Team. Synack combines Sara AI Pentesting, the Synack Red Team and the Synack Platform. Synack's PTaaS offering includes the human security testing expertise of the Synack Red Team and the Synack Platform for asset and vulnerability management, test results, reports and analytics. Synack sells its tests to organizations with a flat-fee model, and researchers are paid based on their vulnerability findings. Dow weighed building against buying AI pentesting before choosing Synack.

Sara AI Pentesting identifies, validates and prioritizes vulnerabilities across the enterprise attack surface. Synack PTaaS brings the Synack Red Team, a community of incentivized security researchers, to the attack surface. Synack describes a community of 1,500 security researchers from around the world. Synack can limit testing to members of the Synack Red Team who meet certain criteria, such as US-only researchers or Five Eyes only. Findings from the scanner and the Synack Red Team are triaged by an internal team called Vulnerability Operations.

Synack tests applications using both humans and AI agents. Synack offers human or AI agent-led pentesting of hosts. Synack tests ephemeral environments with point-in-time or continuous testing across AWS, Azure and GCP. Synack uses researcher missions to look for vulnerabilities in headless endpoints. Synack can conduct testing on demand for mobile, API, web and host assets. Synack offers continuous penetration testing across web, API, cloud and host assets. Synack continuously discovers, fingerprints and prioritizes internet-facing assets for immediate testing. Synack AI/LLM pentesting checks for vulnerabilities including prompt injection, model theft, training data poisoning and insecure plugin design.

Synack has integrations with AWS, Azure and GCP that enable detection of changes and new IPs. Synack provides out-of-the-box integrations with most major public cloud providers, including GCP, Azure and AWS. Synack analyzes benchmarks against AWS, GCP and Azure for security controls. Synack rewards researchers monetarily for the vulnerabilities they find instead of traditional time and materials. Synack is a participating solution provider member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).

Synack provides real time analytics of exploitable vulnerabilities that are found and verified in the Synack Platform. Vulnerabilities in the Synack platform have an associated CVSS score, instructions on how to replicate the finding and a writeup with screenshots from the researcher. Synack lets users issue a patch verification request through the platform, which activates a researcher to test the patch and verify that the exploitation is no longer possible. The Synack API integrates vulnerability findings with tools such as ServiceNow, Jira and Azure DevOps. Synack integrates with vulnerability management, exposure management and ticketing tools. Synack pushes actionable findings into Jira, ServiceNow, Tenable One or existing workflows. Synack lets users choose and launch penetration testing services from the platform on demand, and start, audit and stop tests. Synack PTaaS is available 24/7 via the Synack Platform. Synack tests at multiple stages of development and assists developer and QA teams through real-time reporting and patch verification. Synack generates PDF reports for compliance auditors or other audiences that detail API security testing coverage and vulnerabilities found. Synack lets users activate on-demand security tasks, from cloud testing to checking for a new CVE, within the platform.

Synack's Active Offense solution combines continuous attack surface discovery with autonomous exploit validation and human-led expert analysis. Sara's AI-powered triage is combined with human-in-the-loop expertise to filter which vulnerabilities are exploitable. Synack Missions use the Synack Red Team to complete specific tasks and provide documentation of their work. Synack14 is a 14-day pentest that uses incentive-driven testing by a community of researchers to discover exploitable vulnerabilities. Synack365 and Synack90 blend automatic and adversarial human analysis with the Platform's vulnerability management on a continuous cadence. Synack report generation provides proof-of-work for executive audiences and compliance auditors and fits frameworks such as PCI, HIPAA, SOC2 and FISMA.

Synack's Managed VDP handles vulnerability triage with remediation guidance, coordinates researcher recognition and delivers data to support CISA or Board reporting. Synack's Managed VDP is offered as an option for responsible disclosure to federal teams. Synack provides a risk score across all assets and assessments. The Attacker Resistance Score ranks assets and assessments by their resistance to attack. Synack lets users choose from testing methodologies including OWASP, NIST and Open Vulnerability Discovery.^{[5][6][7][9][10][12][13][14]}

Categories

• Bug bounty and crowdsourced testing (primary category)
• Penetration testing and red team services
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Headquarters

Redwood City, United States^[2]

Founded

2013^[1]

Ownership

Not established from our sources

CISO on record

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Website

synack.com

Products and services

Product names as the company writes them; what each does, in our words, from the company's own product pages. Never how well it does it.

• Sara AI Pentesting^[3][4][5]

  Sara AI Pentesting identifies, validates and prioritizes vulnerabilities across the enterprise attack surface.

  Sara's AI-powered triage is combined with human-in-the-loop expertise to filter which vulnerabilities are exploitable. Synack combines Sara AI Pentesting, the Synack Red Team and the Synack Platform.

• Synack Red Team^[3][4][5][6]

  Synack PTaaS brings the Synack Red Team, a community of incentivized security researchers, to the attack surface.

  Synack describes a community of 1,500 security researchers from around the world. Synack can limit testing to members of the Synack Red Team who meet certain criteria, such as US-only researchers or Five Eyes only.

• Synack Platform^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

  Synack's PTaaS offering includes the Synack Platform for asset and vulnerability management, test results, reports and analytics.

  Synack provides real time analytics of exploitable vulnerabilities that are found and verified in the Synack Platform. Synack lets users issue a patch verification request through the platform, which activates a researcher to test the patch. The Synack API integrates vulnerability findings with tools such as ServiceNow, Jira and Azure DevOps.

• Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

  Synack delivers continuous penetration testing as a service (PTaaS).

  Synack lets users choose and launch penetration testing services from the platform on demand, and start, audit and stop tests. Synack PTaaS is available 24/7 via the Synack Platform. Synack tests at multiple stages of development and assists developer and QA teams through real-time reporting and patch verification.

• Active Offense^[13]

  Synack's Active Offense solution combines continuous attack surface discovery with autonomous exploit validation and human-led expert analysis.

  Synack continuously discovers, classifies and segments internet-facing and newly exposed assets. Sara's AI-powered triage is combined with human-in-the-loop expertise to filter which vulnerabilities are exploitable.

• Managed VDP^[15]

  Synack's Managed VDP handles vulnerability triage with remediation guidance, coordinates researcher recognition and delivers data to support CISA or Board reporting.

  Synack's Managed VDP is offered as an option for responsible disclosure to federal teams. VDPs provide enterprise security teams a safe and legal means to be notified of vulnerabilities on externally facing infrastructure by the public.

• Synack Missions^[14]

  Synack Missions use the Synack Red Team to complete specific tasks and provide documentation of their work.

Competitors and alternatives

The other companies on our record filed under the same categories, category by category: first those that lead with that category and share more of Synack's categories, then alphabetical. A list from the record, never a ranking.

• On bug bounty and crowdsourced testing, Synack competes with HackenProof, Intigriti, Bugcrowd, YesWeHack and HackerOne.

• On penetration testing and red team services, Synack competes with ABIR Networks, Astra Security, Bishop Fox, BreachLock, Cobalt, Halo Security, Millennium Corporation, NCC Group, NetSPI, Red Sentry and 36 more.

References

Every fact above cites one of these by number. Tier A is the company itself, a regulator or a filing; tier B is trade or business press.

1. [1]AboutSynack · synack.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
2. [2]ContactSynack · synack.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
3. [3]AI + Human Penetration Testing | PTaaS | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed October 29, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
4. [4]Penetration Testing Platform | Pentesting platform | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed October 29, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
5. [5]Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
6. [6]Penetration Testing as a Service | Synack PTaaSSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
7. [7]Vulnerability Management Solutions | Continuous Vulnerability ManagementSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
8. [8]Cloud Penetration Testing Services | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
9. [9]API Penetration Testing Services | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
10. [10]Third Party Risk Management | Pentesting | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
11. [11]AI Penetration Testing | LLM Pentest Services | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
12. [12]Cybersecurity Skills Gap Solutions | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
13. [13]Active Offense | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
14. [14]Compliance Penetration Testing | PCI, SOC 2 | SynackSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing
15. [15]Vulnerability Disclosure Program | Synack VDPSynack · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A: the company, a regulator or a filing

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