Skyhawk Security launches agentic AI capabilities through Red Team

Skyhawk Security launches agentic AI capabilities through its AI-based Red Team, enabling continuous security control validation. The update expands Skyhawk’s cloud-native, agentless breach and attack simulation. Instead of simply showing how attacks would unfold, it checks the entire security stack to determine whether a customer’s existing detection and enforcement controls would catch imminent threats to crown-jewel assets. Skyhawk’s Autonomous Purple Team has long provided validated attack scenarios across live cloud environments. With the introduction of agentic AI in the Red Team, Skyhawk now formally validates third-party security controls against those scenarios to deliver an environment-aware view of coverage across the entire security stack. The platform connects to compensating security controls customers already operate and determines, for each attack step, whether prevention technologies would block the activity and whether detection tools would generate the appropriate indications and alerts. Where coverage is incomplete, the system prescribes specific changes and (where permitted) drafts detection updates to accelerate remediation. This approach extends Skyhawk’s BAS beyond simulation to an evidence-based assessment of true attack feasibility in the customer’s production architecture.