What Synack does

Synack, Inc. is a private U.S. cybersecurity company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, that operates a Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) platform combining agentic AI (Sara, the Synack Autonomous Red Agent) with a curated community of more than 1,500 vetted security researchers known as the Synack Red Team (SRT). The platform delivers continuous and point-in-time penetration testing across web, API, host, cloud, mobile, and AI/LLM assets, supported by patented researcher-traffic controls and virtualized workspaces that allow customers to monitor, attribute, and instantly halt testing activity.

The commercial product stack spans the core Synack PTaaS Platform, modular pentest products (AI/LLM, API, application, cloud, compliance), tiered subscription packages (Synack14, Synack90, Synack365), a Managed Vulnerability Disclosure Program, and an "Active Offense" solution bundle. Revenue mechanics are predominantly subscription-based with flat-fee catalog pricing on annual billing cycles, supplemented by managed services, on-demand catalog missions for compliance frameworks (PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, FISMA, NIST 800-53), and consumption-based sales of Sara AI Pentesting through AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud marketplaces.

Synack serves Fortune 500 enterprises, federal agencies (U.S. DOT, HHS, IRS, Federal Reserve), financial institutions (Allianz Direct, Navy Federal Credit Union, Fannie Mae, Jack Henry), and consumer brands (Domino's), selling primarily via direct enterprise field sales, channel partners and SIs (Accenture Federal Services, Kaufman Rossin, Wolfpack Information Risk), and pre-built integrations with SOC/ITSM stacks (Splunk, ServiceNow, Microsoft Sentinel, Jira, Palo Alto, Tenable, Qualys, Cisco, Nucleus, Tines). Regulatory credentials include FedRAMP Moderate authorization and CREST Accredited Member Company status (since 2019), with CREST CCT INF and CCT APP certification pathways added for SRT researchers in June 2026 to support DORA, NIS2, and TIBER-EU compliance work.

Name

Synack

Legal name

Synack, Inc.

Website

https://synack.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Synack is a private U.S. cybersecurity company operating a Penetration Testing as a Service platform that combines agentic AI (Sara) with a vetted 1,500+ researcher community (Synack Red Team) to deliver continuous security testing for Fortune 500 enterprises, federal agencies, and financial institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) / Cybersecurity

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Penetration Testing Platforms (PTaaS) (HDADAHAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Penetration Testing & Red Teaming (BPAKAHAF), Application Security Testing (SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA) (HDADACAC), Application Security & DevSecOps Services (BPAKAHAJ)

Keywords

• Penetration testing services
• Attack surface management
• Vulnerability disclosure program
• AI pentesting platform
• Offensive security testing

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Synack PTaaS Subscriptions (Synack14, Synack90, Synack365): Recurring subscription revenue from three packaged offerings — Synack14 (14-day pentest), Synack90 (90-day continuous pentest), and Synack365 (year-round continuous pentest). Customers purchase catalog products; Synack handles researcher payouts, providing flat-fee pricing to customers regardless of vulnerabilities found.
2. Managed Vulnerability Disclosure Program (Managed VDP): White-glove managed VDP offering providing vulnerability triage, remediation guidance, researcher recognition coordination, and CISA/Board reporting data on behalf of customers.
3. On-Demand Security Missions (Catalog): Revenue from on-demand security tasks activated through the Synack Catalog, including OWASP Top 10 and NIST 800-53 vulnerability checklists and compliance-driven work for PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, FISMA.
4. Cloud Marketplace Sales of Sara AI Pentesting: Sara AI Pentesting is available through major cloud marketplaces including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, generating marketplace-channel consumption-based revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Synack delivers a Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) platform that pairs an agentic AI ("Sara", the Synack Autonomous Red Agent) with a vetted community of 1,500+ security researchers (the Synack Red Team) to provide continuous and point-in-time security testing across web, API, host, cloud, mobile, and AI/LLM assets. The platform includes vulnerability management, attack surface discovery, AI-driven triage, and integration with SOC/ITSM tools, sold as catalog subscriptions (Synack14, Synack90, Synack365) and on-demand compliance-driven missions.

Product overview

Synack offers a unified Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) platform composed of a core platform, modular pentest products, an AI agent, a vetted researcher community, and supporting programs. The Synack PTaaS Platform is the core offering, providing self-service security testing, vulnerability management, attack surface discovery (Attack Surface Management), reporting, and a robust API with pre-built integrations to SOC tools such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Jira, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xpanse, Qualys, Tenable, Cisco Vulnerability Management, Nucleus Security, and Tines. On top of the platform sits Sara AI Pentesting (also called Sara, the Synack Autonomous Red Agent), an agentic AI that autonomously identifies, validates, and prioritizes vulnerabilities across the attack surface, complementing the Synack Red Team (SRT) community of over 1,500 vetted researchers. Pentesting modules include AI and LLM Pentesting, API Penetration Testing, Application Penetration Testing, Cloud Penetration Testing (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Compliance Penetration Testing. The platform supports tiered pentest products — Synack14 (14-day), Synack90 (90-day), and Synack365 (year-round) — alongside the Managed Vulnerability Disclosure Program, the Active Offense solution bundle, and SRT researcher programs including SRT Pathways (with CREST CCT INF/CCT APP certifications), Acropolis recognition, and Envoy mentorship.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sara: Synack Autonomous Red Agent (Sara AI Pentesting) — agentic AI-powered security testing platform that identifies, validates, and prioritizes vulnerabilities across the enterprise attack surface.
• Acropolis
• Envoy

Products and services

• Synack PTaaS Platform End-to-end, cloud-delivered Penetration Testing as a Service platform enhanced by agentic AI, providing self-service security testing, vulnerability management, attack surface discovery, asset insights, reporting, and integration with SOC tools. Hosts the Synack Red Team, Sara AI Pentesting, and an API for custom integrations; targets enterprise and federal security teams.
• Sara AI Pentesting Agentic AI-powered penetration testing product ("Sara, Synack Autonomous Red Agent") that autonomously identifies, validates, and prioritizes exploitable vulnerabilities across the enterprise attack surface, combined with human expert validation. Available through the Synack PTaaS Platform and major cloud marketplaces.
• Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) Continuous and point-in-time penetration testing service delivered through the Synack Platform, blending human security testing expertise from the Synack Red Team with asset and vulnerability management, test results, reports, and analytics.
• AI and LLM Pentesting Penetration testing module for AI and LLM applications covering the OWASP AI/LLM Top 10, including prompt injection, model theft, training data poisoning, insecure plugin design, and data leakage, with real-time vulnerability analytics through the platform.
• API Penetration Testing Testing for security misconfigurations, proper access controls, and other API vulnerabilities including the OWASP API Top 10, with support for headless and hidden API endpoints, coverage analytics, and bi-directional vulnerability management via ServiceNow and Jira integrations.
• Application Penetration Testing Penetration testing for vulnerabilities across web, mobile, and cloud applications, covering the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Web and Mobile Security Testing Guides, and the full SDLC, with integration to DevOps tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, and ServiceNow, patch verification workflows, and source code analysis.
• Cloud Penetration Testing Continuous security testing of assets deployed in Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, or multi-cloud environments, combining security researchers with automated vulnerability scanning and cloud security audits against AWS, GCP, and Azure benchmarks. Synack is a participating solution provider member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
• Compliance Penetration Testing On-demand penetration testing covering OWASP, NIST 800-53, PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2, and FISMA compliance requirements, generating audit-ready reports within 24 hours including CVSS scores, recommended fixes, remediation status, and pentesting coverage by assessment, domain, or sub-domain.
• Attack Surface Management Self-service asset discovery, asset inventory, asset insights, and visibility into newly discovered assets as part of the Synack Platform, continuously discovering IPv4 hosts, web applications, and FQDN assets and integrating with third-party visibility into subsidiaries, acquisitions, teams, or suppliers.
• Managed Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) White-glove managed vulnerability disclosure program providing vulnerability triage with remediation guidance, researcher recognition coordination, and data delivery for CISA or Board reporting, helping federal agencies comply with BOD 20-01.
• Active Offense Agentic AI-powered offensive security solution bundle combining continuous attack surface discovery, autonomous exploit validation, and human-led expert analysis, providing a unified workflow for asset discovery, real-time alerts, and vulnerability exploitability validation.

Quantifiable outcome

• 32% lower pentesting costs
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration13 records

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Wolfpack Information RiskcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 10 June 2026Synack and Wolfpack Information Risk are expanding their partnership to introduce Sara AI Pentesting across South Africa, combining agentic AI technology with a vetted community of ethical hackers to improve attack surface coverage, testing speed, and exploitability validation.
• CRESTcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 June 2026Synack expanded its partnership with CREST by adding two new certifications — CREST Certified Tester Infrastructure (CCT INF) and CREST Certified Tester Application (CCT APP) — to its Synack Red Team (SRT) Pathways program, giving CREST-certified security researchers a direct route to join the SRT community. Synack has held CREST Accredited Member Company status since 2019.
• Kaufman RossincoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 April 2026Kaufman Rossin and Synack announced a strategic partnership to deliver AI-powered penetration testing and continuous security validation for regulated companies, combining Kaufman Rossin's cybersecurity advisories with Synack's platform to move from periodic testing to ongoing, scalable assessments.
• Palo Alto NetworkscoreTechnology or IntegrationSynack integrates with Palo Alto Networks Cortex Xpanse to combine attack surface management asset discovery with continuous pentesting, ensuring up-to-date coverage and timely identification of exploitable security gaps.
• QualyscoreTechnology or IntegrationQualys Vulnerability Management and Web Application Scanning integration with Synack PTaaS combines automated scanning, AI-assisted vulnerability triage, and deep analysis from machine and human-led security testing.
• TenablecoreTechnology or IntegrationTenable Vulnerability Management and Web Application Scanning results are imported into the Synack Platform's Scanner Findings list, where agentic-AI and human-led researchers triage, test for exploitability, recommend fixes, and verify patches.
• CiscocoreTechnology or IntegrationSynack PTaaS Platform integrates with Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM), ingesting data from Synack and other security tools to provide centralized risk view, effective prioritization, and efficient remediation.
• MicrosoftflagshipTechnology or IntegrationSynack provides continuous and on-demand security testing to enhance customer security of workloads in Microsoft Azure. Synack is integrated with Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Azure DevOps to be compatible with existing SOC processes; Sara AI Pentesting is also available via the Microsoft cloud marketplace.
• ServiceNowcoreTechnology or IntegrationSynack's ServiceNow app enables bi-directional push and pull of vulnerability-related data, supporting ServiceNow's ITSM and Vulnerability Response modules so vulnerabilities can be triaged and remediated per customer-defined workflows.
• Atlassian (Jira)coreTechnology or IntegrationSynack integrates with Jira Cloud, Jira Server, and Jira Data Center. Bi-directional integration keeps tickets in sync, feeds vulnerabilities into Jira, and tracks progress until issues are fixed or closed.
• Nucleus SecuritycoreTechnology or IntegrationSynack PTaaS Platform integrates with Nucleus Security's Risk-Based Vulnerability Management solution to bridge the gap between unified vulnerability management and security testing.
• SplunkcoreTechnology or IntegrationThe Synack App for Splunk brings real-time reporting, analytics, custom dashboards, and queries into a customer's Splunk environment.
• Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSynack is a participating solution provider member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.
• Accenture Federal ServicesflagshipImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSynack and Accenture Federal Services have a strategic alliance; a Synack case study describes how Accenture scaled continuous offensive security with the Synack platform.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Cobalt: Cobalt is a direct PTaaS competitor offering on-demand penetration testing through a vetted crowdsourced researcher network, with similar customer segments in financial services and SaaS and a comparable human + platform delivery model.
• NetSPI: NetSPI is a direct PTaaS peer named alongside Synack in industry market reports, offering continuous penetration testing, attack surface management, and adversary simulation to enterprise and regulated customers.
• HackerOne: HackerOne is a direct crowdsourced security and PTaaS peer also named as a top-3 leader alongside Synack and Bugcrowd, with overlapping enterprise and federal customer bases and a large researcher community.
• Bugcrowd: Bugcrowd is a direct crowdsourced security peer named alongside Synack in analyst rankings, offering bug bounty, PTaaS, and vulnerability disclosure programs with similar enterprise and federal go-to-market motions.
• Bishop Fox: Bishop Fox is a direct pentesting peer that has moved into continuous offensive security and PTaaS, competing for the same enterprise and financial-services testing budgets as Synack.

Broad incumbents

• Veracode: Veracode is a broad incumbent application security platform that has expanded into PTaaS, offering application, API, and cloud penetration testing alongside its static and dynamic analysis products to enterprise and regulated customers.
• Mandiant (Google Cloud): Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud, is a broad-incumbent cybersecurity services provider offering incident response, red teaming, and penetration testing to enterprise and government customers, overlapping Synack's offensive security engagements.
• NCC Group: NCC Group is a broad-incumbent cybersecurity consulting and testing firm offering CREST-accredited penetration testing services, comparable to Synack's CREST-accredited offerings for EU and regulated buyers.

Emerging players

• Pentera: Pentera is an emerging player in automated security validation that competes with the continuous-testing portion of Synack's offering, focusing on agentic attack simulation rather than human researcher-led pentesting.
• XBOW: XBOW is an emerging AI-native offensive security startup building agentic penetration testing capabilities that directly compete with Synack's Sara AI Pentesting on autonomous vulnerability discovery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance9 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors20 records

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M&A

Investments

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