Frequently Asked Questions

Hadrian handles the breadth and frequency that human testers can't sustain: continuous coverage across the full attack surface, on demand, with consistent quality every engagement. For specialized work like red team exercises or deep application logic testing, human expertise still has a role. Many customers use Hadrian as their continuous baseline and reserve manual testers for targeted deep dives where they add the most value.

Traditional pentests are point-in-time, scope-limited, and variable in quality depending on who gets assigned. They take weeks to schedule, days to execute, and deliver a report that's outdated before it lands. Hadrian runs on your schedule, covers your full external perimeter, and delivers validated findings in hours. No procurement cycles, no SOWs, no waiting. And the results are consistent every time, not dependent on an individual tester's skill or availability.

Agentic penetration testing uses autonomous AI agents, trained by experienced offensive security practitioners, to find and exploit vulnerabilities across your external attack surface. Unlike traditional pentesting, which relies on a single tester working a fixed scope over a few weeks, agentic pentesting deploys hundreds of specialized agents that work in parallel, adapt their approach based on what they find, and concentrate depth where real exploitation paths exist.

Hadrian deploys extremely quickly. Because the platform is fully agentless and cloud-based (SaaS), it requires no software installation, no on-premise hardware, and no complex system integration.

Hadrian maintains a focus on the hacker's perspective, meaning it places more weight on scanning external-facing assets, as opposed to internal assets. However, with the introduction of Infostealers Infection Detection and the in-development Authenticated Scanning, Hadrian is creating tools that can help unify internal and external network security.

No. Hadrian is fully agentless. There are no agents installed on endpoints, servers, or internal infrastructure. The platform operates externally as a cloud-based SaaS solution. While Hadrian uses AI-driven automation within the platform, this does not involve installing agents on devices or networks.

Exposure Management (often referred to in the context of Continuous Threat Exposure Management or CTEM) is a proactive cybersecurity strategy that goes beyond simple vulnerability scanning. It focuses on continuously identifying, assessing, validating, and remediating threats to an organization’s digital assets from an attacker's perspective. Unlike traditional methods that rely on periodic checks, Exposure Management is a continuous cycle designed to close the gap between what an organization thinks is secure and what is actually exposed to the internet.

Hadrian finds assets using a continuous, agentless, and multi-layered approach that combines broad internet scanning, AI-driven prediction, and visual fingerprinting. The process begins simply by providing a domain or brand name, after which the platform automatically maps the organization's external attack surface.

Yes, Hadrian is an Attack Surface Management (ASM) tool, though it is more specifically categorized as an Offensive Security Platform that focuses on External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV). While it performs the core functions of an ASM tool—mapping, inventorying, and monitoring digital assets—it distinguishes itself by integrating these capabilities with automated penetration testing and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM)