What is Astra Security?
Astra Security is the AI-Powered Continuous Pentest Platform designed to transform chaotic, annual security checks into agile, real-time DevSecOps workflows. It addresses the escalating volume of vulnerabilities and the critical risk posed by static testing by providing continuous, offensive security coverage across your entire digital footprint. This platform is essential for security-conscious engineering teams and developers who need to integrate rigorous, hacker-style security directly into their rapid deployment cycles without sacrificing development speed.
Key Features
Astra Security unifies dynamic scanning, expert human penetration testing, and continuous API monitoring into a single, scalable platform, moving security from a yearly compliance chore to a daily operational advantage.
1. Continuous Pentest-as-a-Service (PTaaS) 🤝
This platform delivers comprehensive, hacker-style vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT) that goes beyond simple automation. Certified pentesters (OSCP, CEH, CCSP) actively dive into threat modeling and manual testing, ensuring coverage for complex business logic flaws that automated tools often miss. You benefit from a central hub for real-time collaboration with experts and streamlined vulnerability management via deep JIRA and Slack integrations, allowing you to fix findings within the same sprint.
2. AI-Powered Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) ⚙️
The DAST scanner utilizes context-aware AI intelligence to custom-tailor test scenarios to your unique application structure, covering over 10,000 vulnerabilities, including the latest OWASP Top 10 and known CVEs. It supports deep authenticated scanning, including complex TOTP-based MFA, ensuring security coverage behind login screens and across various user roles. This capability provides noise-filtered, precise results with false positives vetted by experts, significantly accelerating developer remediation workflows.
3. Unified API Security Platform 🌐
Gain continuous visibility into your expanding API attack surface by automatically performing API Discovery to identify shadow, zombie, and undocumented APIs across your infrastructure. Astra performs incremental DAST scans on every new or modified API, testing for OWASP API Top 10 and secret exposures across REST, SOAP, and GraphQL endpoints. The integrated Authorization Matrix provides a crucial bird’s-eye view of user access privileges, ensuring low-privilege users cannot access sensitive APIs.
Use Cases
Astra Security is built for modern engineering teams, ensuring security keeps pace with rapid feature deployment.
| Scenario | Challenge Addressed | Astra Security Solution |
|---|---|---|
| Shift Left Security | Traditional scanning happens late, slowing down releases and increasing remediation costs. | Integrate Astra scans directly into your CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI). Automatically scan code the moment it’s released, turning your DevOps process into a true DevSecOps model. |
| Securing New Features | Annual pentests leave new, high-risk features exposed for months after deployment. | Use the PTaaS dashboard to request a pentest for every new feature or component. Certified pentesters initiate manual testing immediately, allowing you to certify and deploy new features with confidence, knowing they’ve been thoroughly vetted. |
| API Infrastructure Visibility | Unknown (shadow/zombie) APIs expose critical data and create blind spots for security teams. | By connecting to traffic sources (AWS, Nginx, Kubernetes), Astra continuously monitors your infrastructure to discover and inventory all APIs. It then automatically scans these newly found endpoints, preventing sensitive data exposure and managing API overload risks. |
Unique Advantages of Astra Security
Astra Security stands apart by combining the speed and scale of automation with the depth and insight of world-class human security expertise.
Pioneering Continuous Offensive Testing: Astra is the only platform designed to perform continuous offensive pentests across your applications, APIs, and cloud environments. This agile, scalable approach ensures that you are pentesting every new feature, rather than relying on a static annual report.
Expert Human Touch & Credibility: Our security team comprises certified pentesters (OSCP, CEH, CCSP) who actively contribute to the security landscape, including contributions to OWASP and the responsible disclosure of 30+ CVEs. This real-world expertise directly powers and refines our automated DAST scanner.
Chained Attack Detection: Unlike tools that check for isolated flaws, Astra’s engine connects the dots between multiple minor vulnerabilities to uncover complex, chained attack scenarios that others frequently miss. This capability provides a true simulation of modern hacker techniques.
Verifiable Trust and Compliance: Upon successful completion of a pentest, you receive a security certificate that verifies actual, comprehensive penetration testing was performed—not just automated scanning. This provides external stakeholders, customers, and auditors (SOC2, HIPAA, ISO, GDPR) with tangible proof of your security posture.
Proven Results at Scale: Trusted by over 1000+ engineering teams, Astra has completed over 400,000 vulnerability scans, uncovered over 2 million vulnerabilities, and saved customers millions in potential losses, demonstrating battle-tested reliability.
Conclusion
Astra Security empowers modern engineering and security teams to maintain rapid development velocity while significantly enhancing their security posture. By replacing static, chaotic security processes with a continuous, AI-powered platform backed by human expertise, you achieve comprehensive coverage and verifiable security confidence.
Start protecting your assets today. Explore how Astra Security can elevate your DevSecOps practice.





