Solution · Continuous VAPT

Defend Against the Attackers Who Probe
Every Day

Quick answer
ARTEX-class agentic attackers reduced the cost of a competent attack attempt by an order of magnitude and run reconnaissance daily against the soft parts of your estate. An annual pentest certifies a surface that looked a certain way eleven and a half months ago. TigerGate's continuous VAPT closes the gap — the VAPT AI Engine runs agentic penetration testing against your live surface every day, under consent, with attack-path-linked findings delivered as tickets.
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Three Parts, One Program

Continuous coverage is a stack, not a product. TigerGate ships the three parts that work together.

Live attack-surface sync

Scope follows reality — every internet-exposed host, API and SaaS app from ASM. New assets tested within 24 hours.

Agentic VAPT engine

Autonomous reasoning loop: probe, observe, infer, probe again. Multi-step attack chains, not single requests.

Attack-path prioritisation

Findings link into chains that reach real assets. Prioritise by business impact, not CVSS severity.

Why the Annual Cadence Broke

The annual pentest was calibrated to human attacker cost. A senior pentester for two weeks ran $30–80k, and the expected interval between serious attempted attacks against a given target was also months — so the cadence matched. That compromise ended in 2026.

Agentic frameworks reduced the per-target cost of a competent attempt by at least an order of magnitude, probably two. The WorkOS and GitBook breaches in the first week of November 2026 were both attributed to AI-assisted offensive frameworks hitting soft internal tools that had never been in the annual pentest scope. The targets expanded. The cadence collapsed. The old answer stopped working.

The new floor is continuous VAPT: every day, every new asset, every change — tested by the same class of tool the attacker is running against you, operated under consent.

What Continuous VAPT Does Not Replace

Honest picture matters. Continuous VAPT catches the drudgery class of issue — recon, enumeration, known-class exploitation, drift detection, attack-chain discovery. It does not replace:

  • Human business-logic review — "can I check out with a negative quantity?" needs a tester who understands what your product means.
  • Adversarial creativity — the senior pentester who's seen a specific pattern fail three times is still worth the budget.
  • Compliance sign-off letters — SOC 2, PCI DSS and ISO 27001 still expect a human-signed report on cycle, though the cycle length is softening.
  • Red-team scenarios — social engineering, physical access, insider threats are a different discipline.

The failure mode is skipping the floor because a human pentest is on the calendar. Run both.

What You Get With TigerGate

  • Daily runs against your live attack surface, pulled automatically from ASM — new assets land in the queue the same day.
  • Attack-path-linked findings — one XSS alone is a medium; the same XSS plus a leaked token plus a CORS misconfig is a critical chain. Prioritise accordingly.
  • Ticket-first delivery into Jira, Linear, GitHub Issues, Teams, or the TigerGate dashboard — not quarterly PDFs.
  • Reproducible payloads and one-click re-test so developers confirm the fix without re-engaging a pentester.
  • Signed evidence artefacts for SOC 2 CC7.1, ISO 27001 A.8.8, PCI DSS 11.3, FedRAMP Rev 5 and CERT-In VAPT.
  • Safe-by-default: non-destructive payloads, pre-approved scope CIDRs, rate limits per target, full request audit log.

Compliance Mapping

  • SOC 2 (Trust Services Criteria): CC7.1 vulnerability lifecycle, CC4.1 monitoring activities
  • ISO 27001: A.8.8 (management of technical vulnerabilities), A.5.37 (documented operating procedures)
  • PCI DSS 4.0: Requirement 11.3 (penetration testing), 11.4 (IDS/IPS alerting)
  • FedRAMP Rev 5: CA-8 (continuous assessment), RA-5 (vulnerability monitoring and scanning)
  • CERT-In (India): VAPT reporting with signed, retained artefacts
  • ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF: operational evidence for AI-system testing where the VAPT engine covers your AI gateways and agent surfaces

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Continuous VAPT FAQ

Continuous Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing is agentic penetration testing against your live attack surface on a schedule — daily, hourly, or on-change — rather than once or twice a year. The engine reasons about each response, chains findings into attack paths, and produces reproducible, deduplicated tickets instead of quarterly PDFs.
Agentic offensive frameworks like ARTEX reduced the per-target cost of a competent attack attempt by at least an order of magnitude. The set of "targets worth attacking" expanded to every soft internal tool, and the cadence of attempts went daily. An annual pentest certifies a surface that looked a certain way eleven and a half months ago — the attacker who ran yesterday saw a different one.
No. Continuous agentic VAPT is the floor — it runs every day and catches the drudgery class of issue (recon, enumeration, known-class exploitation, chain-aware findings). A scoped human pentest every 6–12 months catches the business-logic bugs and adversarial-creativity cases the engine does not. Run both.
Yes, by default. Payloads are non-destructive, rate-limited, and bound to pre-approved CIDRs. The engine refuses to probe out-of-scope assets, will not touch customer-data stores by policy, and logs every request it makes for audit.
Most auditors now accept continuous VAPT output as compensating evidence alongside a scoped annual human test. TigerGate maps runs to SOC 2 CC7.1 (vulnerability lifecycle), ISO 27001 A.8.8 and A.5.37, PCI DSS 11.3 (penetration testing), the continuous-testing language in FedRAMP Rev 5, and the CERT-In VAPT reporting template.
DAST is template-based scanning (Nuclei, OWASP ZAP, Burp Scanner) — fast and broad. Continuous VAPT is agentic: it chains findings, pivots on responses, and discovers multi-step attack paths. The two are complementary; the TigerGate VAPT AI Engine runs on top of DAST, not instead of it.

Match the Attacker's Cadence

14-day trial. Point the VAPT AI Engine at your live attack surface; first attack-path-linked findings inside an hour.

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