eSentire announced the launch of Atlas Preempt, a critical advanced pillar of the company’s Atlas Platform. Atlas Preempt runs continuous, AI-driven offensive operations against customer environments, validating which exposures attackers can reach, and feeds that data directly into eSentire’s 24/7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR), all governed by human-judgment controls.
Atlas Preempt offers:
- Threat Intelligence: Primary research aligned with global law enforcement agencies, drives threat hunting, and feeds detection engineering for eSentire Managed Detection & Response (MDR)
- Vulnerability Scanning: assessments that feed directly into penetration testing and findings prioritization
- Attack Surface Discovery: Discovers the attack surface known, or unknown to expand depth and breadth of exposures and validated findings
- AI-Led Autonomous Penetration Testing: Continuous adversarial testing to inform detection tactics, replace periodic penetration tests, and build the connective tissue to Managed Detection and Response with always-on offensive pressure
“The economic advantage has always favored attackers, and frontier-AI models widen it,” said Dustin Hillard, Chief Product and Technology Officer, eSentire. “They now operate at machine speed and scale, while quarterly assessments and severity scores were built for a threat that moved at human pace. Atlas Preempt closes that gap, giving defenders a continuous attacker’s-eye view of their own environment and turning vulnerability disclosures into validated, prioritized risk in hours, not weeks, with the human oversight boards, regulators, and insurers require.”
Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities a median of seven days before public disclosure. Additionally, according to Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, vulnerability exploitation was the leading initial access vector for ~one third of all breaches, a 55 percent year-over-year increase. Defenders, however, still prioritize security controls based on static risk scores.
Instead of point-in-time assessments and reactive MDR, Atlas Preempt provides customers with offensive AI operatives that run reproducible attack simulations and validation, correlate findings against exposure management scanners already in operation, allowing organizations to rank exposures by proven exploitability, not just severity scores.
eSentire’s industry-leading AI-led autonomous penetration testing tool orchestrates hundreds of reconnaissance, vulnerability, exploit, and agentic hacking tools, with enhanced context from live threat intelligence from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) team.
