Capability
AI SECURITY and Agentic Systems
The threat is AI. So are we. CovertSwarm’s AI red teaming attacks your defences the way an AI-equipped adversary would. Then it hunts the vulnerabilities inside your own AI systems. Powered by RAID, our dedicated AI division. Human-led. AI-augmented.
CovertSwarm named in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Security Operations, 2026
The threat
AI has collapsed the barrier between intent and capability.
Operations that once required specialist skills and significant resources can now be executed by a single actor with access to an offline model. Ransomware. Scaled social engineering.
Automated reconnaissance and exploit chaining. AI has made all of it faster, cheaper, and more accessible. Your security programme was built to handle a different threat. The Swarm tests whether it can handle this one.
Speed is the new advantage.
AI turned two weeks of reconnaissance into less than a day. Your attackers are already operating at that speed.
The threat has already upgraded.
Every technique the Swarm uses reflects what real adversaries are deploying right now, not three years ago.
AI fighting AI.
RAID, CovertSwarm’s dedicated AI division, brings machine-scale adversarial capability to every engagement from day one.
we COVER BOTH SIDES OF THE THREAT.
Real attackers are not waiting for your AI strategy to mature. They are using AI against your infrastructure today, and probing the AI systems you have already deployed. The Swarm operates across both.
AI-augmented offensive operations
Attackers now operate at machine speed, scaling reconnaissance and chaining exploits faster than any human team can match. The Swarm tests whether your detection and response capability was calibrated for that reality.
AI-assisted social engineering
Deepfake impersonation, AI-generated spear-phishing, and voice synthesis have made the pretext indistinguishable from the real thing. When human verification becomes the only layer left, we test whether it holds.
Adversary simulation using AI tactics
AI-enabled attack chains now run in hours rather than weeks, with automated lateral movement and accelerated exfiltration built in. We emulate those tactics, techniques, and procedures against your environment before a real threat actor does.
Prompt injection and LLM application testing
Direct prompt injection overrides your system instructions. Indirect injection hides inside the documents and data sources your AI reads. We test both and find the trust boundaries your LLM application does not enforce.
Agentic AI security testing
Autonomous agents that browse, execute code, and call APIs introduce failure modes that conventional scanning was never built to catch. We test tool misuse, privilege escalation, and indirect injection across every channel the agent reads.
AI coding tool security
Your development team’s AI tools have become an attack surface most organisations have not yet mapped. We test for malicious MCP servers, rule file backdoors, and poisoned repository context before your engineering pipeline becomes the entry point.
We know that real attack surfaces don’t come in neat categories. If yours doesn’t fit above, tell us what you’re working with.
What aN AGENTIC SYSTEM Finding Looks Like
Example: Agentic AI security assessment – retail platform
Critical
Finding
RAID’s web testing agent identified an unauthenticated GraphQL endpoint in a retail subscription platform where custom actions bypassed the authentication controls protecting auto-generated queries. The trust boundary did not extend to custom operations on the same endpoint.
Impact
Customer PII was exposed across seven operations through an endpoint accessible without authentication. The retail platform had no prior visibility of the exposure.
Remediation
Apply consistent authentication enforcement across all GraphQL operations including custom actions. Audit all API endpoint authentication boundaries and treat custom actions as equivalent-trust endpoints rather than assuming inherited controls.
Board impact
One unprotected API exposed customers’ personal and health data to anyone online, no login needed.
Technical impact
Seven operations returned customer personal and health data to anyone with an email or profile ID. Sequential IDs exposed other customers’ records too.
Want the full picture?
The full range of offensive security the Swarm runs: every discipline, how they connect, and what each one tests.
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HOW WE attack SAFELY.
Your subscription starts with your Attack Strategy. What matters most, and what adversaries would target first.
AI-augmented engagements move faster and operate at greater scale than conventional testing. The scope, the authorised boundaries, and what RAID’s agents are permitted to do are agreed before any engagement begins.
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Plan
Every engagement is explicitly authorised before RAID or the Swarm begin any activity. The systems in scope, the techniques permitted, and the hard limits are defined and agreed.
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Permission
You authorise us to behave like an attacker, not a vendor. We agree boundaries, not scopes.
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Controlled AI agent operation
Scope boundaries constrain what systems and data channels agents can reach. Agents do not operate beyond the authorised attack surface.
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LLM testing on live systems
Prompt injection and agentic testing on live AI systems is scoped to avoid triggering unintended outputs in production environments. Where possible, testing is conducted against staging environments or isolated instances.
Constant Cyber Attack™
We become the threat. You get the proof.
You don’t outpace attackers by waiting for your next test. You do it by facing an adversary that thinks, acts and strikes like they do.
CovertSwarm attacks your organisation the way the best attackers do: continuously, and using every tool available to reach their objective.
Digital. Social. Physical.
Your Swarm attacks across digital, physical and social vectors, chaining weaknesses to prove what a real attacker could achieve.
Constant pressure.
Your Swarm keeps attacking as your business evolves, adapting to changing systems, people and risks. Constant pressure, not a one-off test.
One simple subscription.
One subscription is all you need. Combine continuous offensive security, penetration testing, red teaming, bug bounty and more in one simple subscription.
Sharper, battle-tested SOC
Improve detection times
Fewer false positives
Prove ROI of security tooling
Stories from the Swarm
These stories are real, but the names are deeply redacted. We’ll tell you how we uncovered the threats no one else could see, and why constant cyber attack is the best way to outpace cyber threats.
Become a story well told. Contact us to discuss how Constant Cyber Attack will help you outpace cyber threats.
Frequently asked questions
AI red teaming is the practice of using artificial intelligence to augment offensive security operations, simulating the tactics, techniques, and speed of real-world adversaries. Where traditional red teaming relies entirely on human operators, AI red teaming introduces agents that handle high-volume, repetitive attack tasks at a scale and pace no human team can match alone. The result is a more consistent, more comprehensive test of your defences.
Prompt injection is an attack technique in which adversaries craft inputs that cause large language models to ignore their intended instructions and execute unintended actions. It is ranked #1 on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025. Direct injection targets the model interface. Indirect injection is more dangerous – malicious instructions hidden in documents, emails, or web pages that the AI reads as part of its normal operation, with no user interaction required. The Swarm tests both, mapping every data channel your AI system reads and injecting through each one.
No. RAID exists to make CovertSwarm’s human operators more effective, not to replace them. The agents handle reconnaissance, enumeration, and surface mapping at speed and scale. That frees the operators to focus on what still requires human judgement: lateral thinking, chained exploits, and the kind of creative adversarial reasoning no model can replicate. The combination is what raises the quality floor. Neither works as well without the other.
RAID is not a separate product or add-on. It is embedded in how CovertSwarm delivers Constant Cyber Attack. When you subscribe, RAID’s agentic capability is already part of every engagement from day one. You do not need to request it or configure it separately.
For AI system testing: OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2025 and MITRE ATLAS. For AI-augmented offensive testing: MITRE ATT&CK framework. All engagements are delivered by CREST-accredited practitioners. In the UK: NCSC AI security guidance and the Cyber Governance Code of Practice.
These are two related but distinct disciplines. AI red teaming means using AI tools to test your broader security defences by running attacks at machine speed and scale against your infrastructure. Testing your AI systems means adversarially probing the LLMs, agents, and AI-integrated applications you have deployed by finding the prompt injection vulnerabilities, data leakage paths, and agentic failure modes that live inside your AI stack. The Swarm does both, with RAID as the specialist division behind the AI-augmented capability.
NCSC has published specific guidance on securing AI systems, and the Cyber Governance Code of Practice creates board-level accountability for AI risk. The EU AI Act introduces obligations for high-risk AI systems that affect UK organisations with EU operations or supply chains. The ICO has also issued guidance on AI and data protection under UK GDPR. CovertSwarm’s AI security testing is designed to give you the evidence base these frameworks require.
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Stop testing.
Start knowing.
You’ll know exactly where you stand, and you’ll be able to prove it. To your board, your regulator, and yourself.
Transform to a proactive, continuous offensive security programme
Your budget is aimed at the risk that matters, not the one you were handed
You show the board what security prevented, not a request for more
Security clears the way for the business to move faster
You enter the boardroom in command
It starts with a 30-minute Attack Discovery call.
No access to your systems required.