As organizations expand their security testing efforts across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and emerging technologies, many security teams struggle with a growing gap between strategic security objectives and day-to-day execution. Fragmented oversight, engineering silos, and the challenge of translating technical vulnerability data into business-level insights can slow remediation efforts and reduce the effectiveness of offensive security programs.
The Cobalt Security Program Manager addresses this challenge by providing organizations with a dedicated expert who acts as an extension of the internal security team. Security Program Managers oversee the logistics of enterprise-scale pentesting programs, coordinate testing schedules across development teams, and ensure remediation workflows align with broader business and security goals.
Security Program Managers help organizations streamline pentesting operations and ensure testing results translate into actionable improvements across the business. Key benefits of the service include:
Reclaim Your Team’s Time: Security Program Managers coordinate with development and engineering teams to schedule pentests, manage administrative logistics, and track remediation progress, reducing the operational burden on internal security teams.
Eliminate Security Blind Spots: By maintaining a comprehensive inventory of assets and aligning testing cadences with corporate security objectives, Security Program Managers ensure continuous visibility into the organization’s security posture.
Secure Executive Buy-In: Security Program Managers translate technical findings into strategic intelligence and performance metrics, helping security leaders demonstrate ROI and communicate risk reduction to executive stakeholders.
Accelerate Innovation Cycles: Cobalt integrates pentesting workflows with common development tools such as Jira, GitHub, and Slack, enabling organizations to embed security into development pipelines without disrupting engineering velocity.
The Security Program Manager builds on the broader Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, which combines automation, AI-driven intelligence, and expert-led testing to deliver offensive security at enterprise scale. By integrating automated reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, and intelligence-driven triage with human-led testing, Cobalt enables organizations to run continuous security programs that evolve alongside their environments.
"Having a dedicated Security Program Manager ensures consistency across our pentesting program," said Jamie Strickland, Security Analyst Lead at Patterson Companies. "They understand exactly what results we need and have become exceptionally nimble at managing tester and team member questions. By looping in the right internal stakeholders, they ensure our projects always stay on track. I know I can rely on them to handle complex questions and tailor communications for my internal audience."
Cobalt offensive security services span application, network, API, cloud, and emerging AI systems, and include capabilities such as web application pentesting, mobile testing, cloud configuration reviews, attack surface management, red teaming, and AI and LLM application testing. These services are delivered by the Cobalt Core, a global community of more than 500 vetted ethical hackers who average over 11 years of pentesting experience.
