Astra Security

Astra Security builds a penetration testing platform that treats offensive security as a continuous function rather than a one-time engagement. The company's flagship product, the Astra PTaaS (Pentest as a Service) Platform, pairs automated vulnerability scanning with expert manual penetration testing across web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and mobile apps. The threat model is straightforward: findings that sit undiscovered in production code and deployed infrastructure become breach paths, so the platform is designed to keep surfacing weaknesses as applications change.

At the core of the tooling is a continuous vulnerability scanner that emulates hacker behavior to test for more than 15,000 security vulnerabilities. It plugs into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows, with an explicit focus on helping engineering teams move from DevOps to DevSecOps - security testing that runs where the code ships rather than in a separate annual exercise. The broader technical stack spans penetration testing, application security, cloud security, API security, mobile application security, and vulnerability scanning.

Operating scale is concrete: Astra reports over 1,000 customers across 70+ countries, 2.5 million vulnerabilities uncovered in 2024, and more than $110 million in potential security-related losses avoided for customers. The customer base skews toward fintech and financial services, e-commerce, automotive marketplaces, D2C consumer goods, social and communication tools, and entertainment/gaming.

The company's stated mission is to democratize cybersecurity - an approach recognized by the President of France and the Prime Minister of India. Work sits at the intersection of offensive security research, SaaS engineering, and developer tooling.