Let’s be real. We’ve all been sold the CNAPP dream, and it delivers. The “single pane of glass” visibility, it hardens workloads, protects containers, enforces IaC guardrails, and even auto-remediates at scale. Enterprises need it. But here’s the catch: CNAPP doesn’t build resilience.
OWASP just released an Agentic Security Initiative (ASI), a project to extend its security mindset into the world of autonomous, agentic systems: building threat models, mapping new vulnerabilities, giving mitigations. They differentiate between classic GenAI/LLM risks and the added complexities that come from autonomy, long-term memory, self-planning, tool use, multi-agent architectures, and more.
Posture management looks great in board decks. But let’s be blunt: posture isn’t proof. It doesn’t weaponize your security. It doesn’t simulate how an adaptive, AI-powered adversary would actually chain and exploit your environment in real time.
CNAPP gives you visibility. Cracken gives you truth.
The Gap CNAPP Can’t Close
CISOs love dashboards, they soothe. Green checkmarks, improving compliance scores, glowing posture indexes. But the harsh reality? Those metrics reflect potential security, not validated resilience.
Here’s why CNAPP can’t close the gap against modern AI-driven threats:
- CNAPP is descriptive, not adversarial. It tells you what might be risky but never tests what is actually exploitable. It’s the difference between reading a threat report and walking into a breach.
- It assumes static systems. Today’s agentic AI threats are dynamic, self-learning, and chained across APIs, legacy assets, and cloud identities. Posture tools can’t keep up with logic that mutates faster than their detection cycles.
- It treats AI like code, not cognition. Agentic adversaries don’t follow playbooks. They reason, pivot, and weaponize your infrastructure turning misconfigurations into steppingstones and your APIs into arsenals.
- It’s blind to dormant danger. CNAPPs don’t crawl forgotten subdomains, zombie APIs, or “dead” containers but attackers do. That’s where the breach begins.
CISOs know the math: the next generation of attacks won’t look like a log anomaly; they’ll look like autonomous decision-making gone rogue.
This is the security gap no compliance dashboard can fill.
Why Cracken
Cracken doesn’t play defense. It deploys offensive AI copilot agents, autonomous red-team units that proactively assess, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities at machine speed, even in legacy systems and dormant APIs that traditional tools never touch.
It’s offense-informed defense, purpose-built for the AI era.
Here’s why Cracken is redefining the battlefield:
- Automated Exposure Validation (AEV): Validated by Gartner as the evolution beyond Continuous Exposure Management. While CNAPPs observe, Cracken validates through controlled, live attack logic.
- Agentic Red AI: Deploys self-learning red agents that execute multi-step exploit chains, probe hidden assets, and feed results directly into your SIEM, CI/CD, or air-gapped environments, all transparent, auditable, reversible.
- Proof, not promises. One top-10 bank uncovered $1.4B in exposure in under 8 minutes. A single operator validated 120 targets in 24 hours, cutting false positives by 90%.
- Zero Black-Box Risk. Every action is logged, auditable, and reversible. Full human oversight, rollback controls, and transparent agent logs.
- Operational Harmony. Seamless integration with CI/CD, SIEM, cloud/on-prem, Kubernetes, and regulated environments all built to align with OWASP ASI, EU AI Act, and CISA frameworks.
- Real-World Proven. The only defense platform battle-tested in live cyber warfare, built by top hacker legends. Cracken helped clients find 3× more zero-days before real attackers did, and cut security review cycles by 80%.
- Scales human capability. Cracken multiplies red/blue team coverage hundred-fold — uncovering 100× more issues with the same headcount.
This isn’t theoretical security. It’s verified reality. And it’s changing how nations, banks, and enterprises define resilience.
Defend What Matters Before the Breach
Cracken’s mission is simple: empower the world’s defenders with weaponized, adaptive intelligence where machine-speed offense meets human command.
It arms defenders, hackers, and mission-driven agencies with the same AGI firepower adversaries use, but with full transparency, auditability, and human oversight. From honeypots to agentic penetration, every action is visible, every result is proof.
In a world where cyberwar is measured in milliseconds, Cracken gives you control of time itself.
Attackers evolve. So must defense. This is the Red Defense era where posture ends, and proof begins.
Schedule a Demo or Request a Free Trial and experience how Cracken turns AI offense into your greatest advantage.
And why? Because in this new age of agentic warfare, defense without offense isn’t defense at all.
Guilherme “Gui” Alvarenga is a threat intelligence and AI strategist with over a decade in cybersecurity, spanning Cracken, Cisco, CrowdStrike, and Check Point. He holds degrees in Law and Marketing and specialized in Applied Computing at Stanford University. Gui blends strategy, storytelling, and technical insight to humanize complex security narratives.