Introducing Apex
An agentic penetration tester for web applications.
Sprocket's first AI agent. Now live on the Sprocket Platform.
Apex is Sprocket's first AI agent: a context-aware penetration tester for web applications. It performs unauthenticated testing the way a Sprocket tester would, working through reconnaissance, discovery, exploitation, and reporting. Every suspected finding is validated, then handed to our Testing team to review and publish.
Apex is an extension of our Testing team, not a replacement for it.
— How it works
◆ Reasoning. Apex maps your application, forms a theory about where it might break, and tests that theory. It reasons through the app like a human tester would, instead of running a scan.
◆ Context-aware. Apex knows your web assets and your past findings. It uses them to skip issues you have already seen or are currently open, catch fixed bugs that have resurfaced, and judge severity against your actual environment.
◆ Validated. Apex re-tests every suspected issue on its own before recording it. If it cannot prove the impact, it does not report it, ensuring you always get quality findings.
◆ Human-owned. A member of the Testing team reviews and publishes every Apex finding before it reaches you.
— Who will see Apex
◆ Available to every customer. The Sprocket Testing team puts Apex to work during the continuous external penetration testing you already receive.
◆ Always on for web app testing customers. If you have Sprocket web application testing, Apex runs unauthenticated testing on its own recurring schedule across every web app in your scope, so the exposure time between human assessments shrinks.
— What you get
◆ An Attack Narrative is written for every run covering what was tested, whether or not it produced a finding.
◆ Findings delivered in the platform and through the API, exactly like every other finding. No new dashboards, no new process.
◆ Each finding includes a severity, a clear description, a real proof of concept, remediation guidance, and references.
— Built for trust
◆ Apex runs entirely inside Sprocket's AWS environment using leading frontier models, in trusted data centers that don't train on assessment data.
◆ Apex tests in a measured way, ensuring it is controlled and non-destructive for production environments. Anything it writes is its own test data, which can be reversed and cleaned up at the end of testing.
◆ One familiar kill switch: the existing Stop Testing control halts Apex too, so you keep immediate control, exactly as you do today.
The bottom line
Agentic unauthenticated web application testing that uses your Sprocket data to surface real, validated threats faster, with a Sprocket expert behind every finding.
Questions?
Not sure what type of testing is included in your partnership? Your Sprocket Account Manager can tell you where Apex runs for you, and how to add scheduled web application testing.
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