The question for security leaders is who's in charge of the agents that test their defenses. We think it should be ethical hackers. That's how we're building our agentic capabilities.
CovertSwarm has been named a Sample Vendor for Agentic Red Teaming in the Gartner® Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Preemptive Cybersecurity, published on 11 September 2026. In our view, the question for security leaders is who’s in charge of the agents that test their defenses. We think it should be ethical hackers. That’s how we’re building our agentic capabilities.
From the report: “This year’s Impact Radar for Preemptive Cybersecurity analyzes the maturity, market momentum and influence of 11 emerging technologies and trends designed to combat the increasing risk posed by AI-enabled threats.”
The report also says: “Attackers have typically exploited vulnerabilities faster than defenders have remediated them, and AI-driven capabilities will accelerate this gap.”
CovertSwarm is one of ten Sample Vendors listed for Agentic Red Teaming.
Our Red Team AI Division (RAID) brings AI engineers and ethical hackers together to build agentic capabilities for the Swarm. Our operators define the problems the agents solve. They help build the agents, and they judge the results against what a real engagement needs.
The aim is for agents to take on the research and preparation that eat into testing time. Our ethical hackers stay in charge. They direct the investigation and check what the agents find.
We think that split matters. An agent can cover more ground. It can’t decide which weakness matters most to your business. Or how an attacker would chain an exposed system with a convincing phone call and an unlocked side door.
Constant Cyber Attack is built on a simple fact. Real attackers don’t pause between engagements. We’re building agents so the Swarm can spend more of its time attacking.
As these capabilities mature, we aim to test more of the routes into your business. We also aim to focus our operators on the attack paths that could do real damage.
“Agents change how much ground we can cover. They don’t change what the job is,” said Luke Potter, Chief Operating Officer at CovertSwarm. “Finding the way into a business still takes people who think like attackers. We’re building agents that give our ethical hackers more time to do exactly that.”
Want to know how we’re building agentic capabilities into Constant Cyber Attack? Talk to the Swarm.
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Source: Gartner, Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Preemptive Cybersecurity, Elizabeth Kim, Charanpal Bhogal, Luis Castillo, Bryan Haley, David Senf, Tom Powledge, Ayelet Heyman, Neil MacDonald, 11 September 2026.
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