London, UK and Cape Town, South Africa – KHIPU Networks has announced the expansion of its AI-powered Red Teaming portfolio [1]. Built on Horizon3.ai’s autonomous platform, the suite introduces continuous (AI) penetration testing and security validation services designed to help enterprise, healthcare, education, and public sector organisations outpace AI-equipped threat actors.  

The launch follows successful customer deployments across multiple sectors, addressing a critical gap in traditional cybersecurity: the limitation of periodic, human-led point-in-time testing.  

Shifting to Continuous Validation. 

While manual penetration testing remains valuable, individual testing can be constrained by scope, time, and methodology. By leveraging autonomous systems, KHIPU’s portfolio emulates real-world attacker behaviour to safely expose vulnerabilities and track lateral movement across critical infrastructure. 

“AI is changing both sides of cyber security,” said Robbie Petrie, RED Team Lead at KHIPU Networks. “Organisations must embrace AI-powered defensive capabilities because attackers are using the technology to identify and exploit weaknesses faster than ever before.” 

Petrie stressed that the technology is designed to augment, rather than replace, security personnel. “By combining autonomous testing with KHIPU’s experienced consultants, customers benefit from continuous validation and expert remediation guidance.” 

Comprehensive AI-Powered Security Validation Services. 

To meet a wide range of customer requirements, KHIPU offers a flexible portfolio of AI-powered penetration testing and exposure management services, including:  

• Fully Managed and Co Continuous Penetration Testing delivered by KHIPU’s cyber security specialists.  
• Detailed Remediation Reporting, providing visibility of exposure levels, exploitable attack paths, security weaknesses and potential compromise scenarios, along with prioritised remediation guidance.  
• Fix Verification Services, validating that remediation activities have been successfully completed and identified risks have been effectively removed.  
• Intelligent Decoy and Tripwire Deployment, providing immediate alerts when attackers interact with deceptive assets, delivering valuable early warning of malicious activity, particularly for critical systems and endpoints that cannot be patched quickly.  
• Rapid Response Exposure Validation, enabling organisations to quickly assess and validate exposure to newly disclosed vulnerabilities, zero-day exploits and actively exploited threat campaigns. 
• On-Demand AI-Powered Penetration Testing, supporting targeted assessments, compliance initiatives, project validation and pre-production testing.  
• Co-Managed Services, combining customer resources with KHIPU expertise to maximise value and accelerate cyber maturity.  

The services are structured to help organisations meet compliance obligations, mapping directly to frameworks such as the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIS2 and POPIA guidelines. 

Real-World Impact. 

Early adopters report immediate operational shifts. KHIPU customer and Group IT Director at a multi-national epigenetic company, stated: 

“KHIPU’s AI-powered penetration testing service has made a big impact to the way we manage cyber risk. Not only did it provide comprehensive, actionable insight into our security posture, but we now have an accurate and extremely fast way to prioritise, rectify and validate identified issues. By moving away from traditional point-in-time testing, we’ve adopted a modern, AI-driven, proactive and repeatable approach to security assurance, enabling us to continuously identify, verify and reduce risk while strengthening our overall cyber resilience.” 

Further to this, a KHIPU customer and CISO at a large NHS Trust, said:

“As a hospital, patching critical clinical systems is a complex process. KHIPU’s AI-powered penetration testing service continuously identifies exploitable attack paths, guides remediation efforts, and immediately validates fixes. This modern, AI-driven approach delivers greater insight and accuracy than traditional point-in-time penetration testing or vulnerability scanning, giving us increased confidence in the security and resilience of the services our patients depend on. As attackers increasingly use AI to accelerate and enhance cyber attacks, we believe it is essential to use AI defensively to identify and reduce our exposure before threats can impact patient care.”

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[1] KHIPU’s Red Team services provide customers with a comprehensive suite of proactive security validation, threat detection and cyber resilience capabilities. These are: 

• Autonomous penetration testing services emulate real-world attacker behaviour to identify exploitable attack paths, validate security controls, and uncover risks to critical systems and data. 
• Warden – Dark Web Monitoring: 24×7 credential theft and domain impersonation monitoring, alerting and response services. 
• Early Line: 24×7 third-party app and supply chain breach monitoring and alerting, providing early warning when suppliers, partners or other trusted organisations suffer a security incident that could impact your business. 
• Tabletop+: Simplified cyber incident tabletop exercises designed to validate preparedness, decision-making and response processes. 
• PhaaS + VAS: Combining fully managed simulated phishing and security awareness training campaigns with vulnerability management helps organisations strengthen cyber resilience by improving user awareness, identifying and prioritising security weaknesses, accelerating remediation, and reducing the risk of successful cyber-attacks. 
• KAI Security: Continuous discovery, monitoring and governance of AI usage across the organisation, helping identify AI-related risks, enforce security controls, support compliance requirements and enable the safe adoption of AI technologies.