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Synack Launches Sara: The Synack Autonomous Red Agent

Synack CEO and Co-Founder Jay Kaplan discusses the crisis of scale facing security teams today and introduces our two revolutionary solutions: Sara and Active Offense. Learn how Synack is uniting the speed of agentic AI with the ingenuity of human expertise.

Jay Kaplan CEO and Co-Founder, Synack

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Synack CEO and Co-Founder Jay Kaplan discusses the crisis of scale facing security teams today and introduces our two revolutionary solutions: Sara and Active Offense. Learn how Synack is uniting the speed of agentic AI with the ingenuity of human expertise.

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As a former NSA operative, I I learned that victory isn't about just building higher walls. It's really about superior intelligence and speed. It's about having the best and brightest people working together with the most incredible technology in the world. And I think today that principle holds true on a digital battlefield, transformed beyond our our legacy tools. You know, today we really face a crisis of scale. Even the most dedicated security teams are completely overwhelmed.

If we if we just take a look at the volume we're we're we're talking about here, over forty thousand new vulnerabilities surfaced last year alone, that's one in every seventeen minutes. Attackers are weaponizing flaws within hours, and organizations are still taking months to remediate. Our traditional defenses are just too slow. So at Synack, we believe the only viable future lies in a new symbiotic relationship. We have to unite the scalable intelligence of machines with the irreplaceable ingenuity of humans.

And this is at the core of the philosophy driving us at Synack. It's the foundation of our most innovation to date, something that we call Sara. Sara is the Synack autonomous red agent. At Synack, we understand the distinct strengths: AI is incredible at the science of hacking. It's great at pattern recognition, speed, scale. Sara can test for millions of known vulnerabilities across an attack surface in minutes. This is something that would take humans years. But when we think about humans,

they excel at the art of hacking. And this is why we built Synack in the first place, because people possess ingenuity. They they possess a contextual understanding and a creative spark algorithms simply lack. A human can identify subtle design flaws, not in a database. Something that no one's ever seen before. Or humans can chain multiple low level impact findings to create a a catastrophic breach. Where an AI might see two completely separate vulnerabilities that are unrelated, the Synack Red Team sees a two step path to a total compromise

of an organization. So with Synack, we're launching Active Offense, which is a revolutionary new product. If you imagine with a Critical Zero Day in the past, organizations were scrambling. With Active Offense, we're turning chaos into clarity, and we're going from months of searching to minutes of confirmed actionable intelligence. Sarah and Active Offense are just the beginning. We're building towards a future where AI and human intellect, they work together in concert. They anticipate threats.

They secure our collective digital future. And the human-machine team, I believe, is the most powerful force on the modern battlefield. At Synack, we are committed to leading this new paradigm, and I couldn't be more excited about the future.

Speakers

Jay Kaplan

Synack

CEO and Co-Founder

Next step

Run the test instead of evaluating the idea.

Define a scope, run a Sara AI pentest against it, and see which findings are confirmed as real and exploitable. Then compare that with what your current testing returns.