What is PTaaS?

PTaaS: A delivery model that packages penetration testing as an ongoing subscription with a portal, rather than a one-off consulting engagement.

In plain language

PTaaS modernised how pentests are bought — a platform, a dashboard, faster scheduling — but most PTaaS is still human-led underneath, so it inherits the human bottleneck: you wait for a tester, and the test is a snapshot in time.

SuperPentest is autonomous: it runs on every release rather than per engagement, reproduces findings itself, and publishes its pricing — continuous coverage at scanner-like cost. See the field comparison.

A concrete example

A team buys PTaaS and gets a portal, a scoping call, and a tester assigned three weeks out. The test runs for a week, a PDF lands, and the next one is a quarter away — everything shipped in between is untested. The portal modernised the delivery, but the cadence is still a snapshot. Continuous autonomous testing closes that gap by re-running on every release.

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