Company: Shinobi Security
Founder: Varun Uppal
Website: https://shinobi.security
About Shinobi Security
Shinobi builds a swarm of certified, collaborative AI penetration testers that plan, probe, and exploit systems in real time, thinking, learning, and hacking like elite human red teams. It brings continuous, explainable AI-powered penetration testing to organisations, uncovering real, exploitable vulnerabilities (including complex business-logic flaws) in hours, not weeks.
About Shinobi
Founded by former Sky and Net-a-Porter Head of Product Security, Varun Uppal, Shinobi was created to fix a growing imbalance that attackers are already using AI, but defenders are not. Traditional penetration tests are slow, expensive, and infrequent, while scanners drown teams in false positives.
Shinobi’s platform changes that. It’s the world’s first swarm of certified AI penetration testers – in other words, multiple specialist agents collaborating live, planning, arguing, and chaining exploits just like expert human teams. Each finding is accompanied by clear, evidence-backed proof and fixes, and users can even watch the AIs debate and test in real-time through a live collaboration view.
What makes Shinobi stand out
Autonomous expertise – specialist AI agents replicate the reasoning, creativity, and workflows of elite human penetration testers
Certified capability – the first AI solution to pass practical hacking exams like the Certified API Hacking Expert (CAPIE), proving verifiable skill and rigour
Speed and scale – what takes humans 15–20 days, Shinobi achieves in 24–48 hours, cutting costs and accelerating remediation dramatically
Continuous protection – Shinobi runs around the clock, catching new vulnerabilities introduced by code changes, dependencies, or misconfigurations
Accuracy over noise – by reasoning through exploit chains rather than static flags, Shinobi delivers actionable results with far fewer false positives (scanners typically hit 40–60%)
Transparent AI – every result comes with evidence, exploit chains, and clear remediation guidance, with live, explainable reasoning that builds trust between security and development teams
Shinobi’s technology doesn’t just find vulnerabilities faster, it thinks like an attacker, reproduces business-logic exploits, and delivers end-to-end proof of concept. The result is shorter fix times, stronger defences, and greater developer confidence.
Looking ahead
Shinobi is now scaling enterprise deployments and expanding into mobile and cloud-native testing. Integration with continuous integration, continuous delivery, bug-tracking, and remediation platforms will embed continuous adversarial testing directly into engineering workflows.
Commercially, Shinobi is growing through strategic channel partnerships, sector pilots in fintech and healthtech, and tiered service models ranging from rapid continuous scans to audit-ready engagements for regulated industries.
In summary
Shinobi closes the AI gap in cybersecurity by delivering certified, explainable AI that hacks like the best humans do, but faster, continuously, and at a fraction of the cost to businesses. In doing so, it’s redefining what penetration testing looks like in the age of intelligent automation.
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