Penetration testing
Rigorous assessment of external and internal attack surfaces across networks, APIs, cloud environments, and high-performance compute infrastructure.
Swordholder / Offensive Security
The adversary’s
adversary.
Continuous offensive security for accelerated compute, HPC, AI, cloud, and critical infrastructure. We find the paths an attacker would—and keep finding them as your systems change.
Agentic offenseAI red teamingCloudKubernetesSlurmGPU clusters
Capabilities
Attack the system,
not the checklist.
Every engagement is built around your actual threat surface, critical paths, and operating constraints.
Red team engagements
Goal-oriented adversary simulation using real-world tactics to test detection, response, and resilience against targeted, persistent threats.
Infrastructure security audits
Deep review of bare metal, Kubernetes, Slurm, multi-cloud, GPU clusters, and high-speed interconnects—from architecture through hardening.
HPC & AI pipeline security
Purpose-built assessments for training pipelines, model serving, data flows, schedulers, management planes, and accelerated compute environments.
Agentic offense
The assessment
that does not end.
Autonomous offensive workflows continuously explore, test, and research within a governed scope. Human operators direct objectives, approve high-impact actions, and validate consequential findings.
Automated penetration testing
Continuously map attack surfaces, verify exposures, and exercise safe attack paths as infrastructure, identities, and applications change.
Agentic red teaming
Persistent, objective-driven adversary simulation that chains reconnaissance, access, privilege, and lateral movement across complex environments.
Agentic vulnerability research
Analyze code, firmware, services, and dependency changes to discover new vulnerability classes, variants, and reachable exploit paths.
AI red teaming
We attack AI systems themselves—not merely use AI to run conventional tests. We assess prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, tool misuse, memory poisoning, and agent control boundaries.
Continuous exploit validation
Turn vulnerability noise into demonstrated impact. Safely validate exploitability, retest fixes, and detect when a closed path reopens.
Human-governed autonomy
Explicit scope, action policies, approval gates, audit trails, and kill controls keep autonomous testing aligned with operational risk.
Why Swordholder
Operator depth.
Attacker instinct.
We understand the systems because we have built and operated them. That means sharper attack paths, practical remediation, and less time explaining your stack.
Operator background
Nearly a decade across bare metal, Kubernetes, Slurm, and production infrastructure at scale.
Red team pedigree
Experience testing hardened targets inside a leading AI-focused cloud environment.
Accelerated compute fluency
Native understanding of GPU clusters, high-speed interconnects, training pipelines, and HPC operations.
Builder empathy
We deliver findings and fixes, then work alongside engineers to validate remediation.
Contact / Swordholder
Put your defenses
under pressure.
Tell us what you run, what you protect, and whether you need a focused engagement or a continuous agentic program.
sales@darkforest.agency