Hey there 👋

I'm Shikhil, the founder of Astra Security. I did my first pentest 15+ years ago and have been obsessed with offensive security ever since.

Over the years, we built a PTaaS platform, a DAST scanner, an API Security platform, a Cloud Vulnerability Scanner, and discovered tens of millions of vulnerabilities along the way. But one belief stayed constant through all of it: business logic vulnerabilities would never be discovered autonomously. Ever.

AI just shattered that limit. And nothing has excited me like this in 15 years of being in infosec.

So we built Astra Autonomous Pentesting. Not a smarter scanner. An army of AI agents that owns the full pentest cycle:

• 🔍 Discover - Offensive agents built on insights from 5,000+ real-world pentests hunt complex, chained vulnerabilities.

• 💥 Exploit - Agents chain and exploit findings to prove real-world impact, not flag theoretical risks.

• ✅ Validate - An independent validator layer drives false positives to near-zero.

• 🔧 Fix - AI-fix agents that deliver tailored remediation right in your Cursor, Copilot, and Claude Code.

The full cycle. No handoff. No report sitting in someone's inbox. Software that heals itself.

This isn't about replacing pentesters 🙏 Let AI own the grunt work - the cookie flags, the report writing, the endless threat modeling sessions. Let pentesters do what they love: chaining complex vulnerabilities, getting deep into a system. Pentesters at Astra are central to everything we build. Now, AI is their most powerful ally, not their replacement.

We call this the era of self-healing software. And we're just getting started. Would love your questions, brutal takes, and your support today. 🚀

Looking forward to helping you with your next Pentest!

— Shikhil, Founder & CEO, Astra Security