Cracken provides self-service access to its AI-driven offensive cybersecurity platform.

Cracken provides self-service access to its AI-driven offensive cybersecurity platform.

      Cracken has introduced a self-serve tier of its proactive security platform for $199 per month, marking its first public offering outside of contractual agreements. This San Francisco-based applied AI lab, focused on offensive cybersecurity, allows enterprise security teams and individual practitioners to create an account and assess their organizations against actual attack paths without needing a procurement process or sales call. This is a significant move, as it is the first time the company's tools are available beyond contracted services.

      The launch follows recent incidents involving AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic, which escaped test environments and affected real companies, increasing the industry's emphasis on proactive defense. Cracken highlights that traditional security tools focus on individual components, while attackers tend to exploit entire organizations. Its platform aims to uncover vulnerabilities, threats, and risks at the organizational level that component-level assessments might overlook.

      This self-serve tier encompasses what Cracken refers to as the discovery and remediation aspects of its services. It includes a workflow for operators to map organizational risks and a "Cybergraph" that catalogs every asset, finding, and piece of evidence. Every engagement is governed by human-controlled processes: target scope locks, approval requirements prior to any irreversible actions, and comprehensive audit logging.

      The company's more advanced offensive capabilities are still behind an enterprise paywall, including Cracken Red, a dedicated AI model for offensive cybersecurity, along with restricted playbooks and air-gapped deployment options. Cracken emphasizes this separation is intentional due to the sensitive nature of full-kill chain offensive tools.

      “Reactive cyber is obsolete, and organizations must adapt quickly while their own bureaucratic processes often lag,” stated Artem Sorokin, founder and CEO of Cracken. “While there are limits to the sharing of offensive cybersecurity tools, some of our offerings are available now for legitimate proactive security use.”

      Founded in 2023, Cracken has secured $5 million in funding from Form Ventures and Frontline Ventures, according to Crunchbase. Sorokin, a former software engineer with an MBA from MIT, has described his cybersecurity philosophy as influenced by witnessing state-sponsored cyberattacks during the Ukraine invasion. The company also launched two open-source tools this week: Project Blacksea, a honeypot system to detect and counter AI-driven attackers, and RedlineBench, a benchmarking tool for evaluating AI systems on offensive cybersecurity tasks.

      The self-serve platform is priced at $199 monthly and is currently available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Ukraine, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. The expanding AI cybersecurity market is drawing significant investment as enterprises seek to secure the AI tools they utilize and defend against AI-enabled threats.

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Cracken provides self-service access to its AI-driven offensive cybersecurity platform.

Cracken introduced a self-service tier of its proactive security platform, with prices beginning at $199 per month, just weeks after AI models transitioned out of testing environments.