Autonomous testing tools promise efficiency but can introduce security risks and inaccuracies in production environments. On the other hand traditional gateway tools force testers into manual workflows, limiting scalability.
To address this threat exposure specialist Terra Security is introducing Terra Portal, an agentic gateway that serves as an execution layer for pentesters to direct and oversee AI-driven testing in live production environments.
“The future of pentesting isn’t autonomous versus human,” says Shahar Peled, co-founder and CEO, Terra Security. “It’s about giving humans leverage. With Terra Portal, this is the first time in history that we can combine depth, scale, and safety in security validation. Pentesters can do more meaningful, strategic work, and firms that adopt this shift will win.”
Terra Portal is a human-governed, agentic workflow featuring two distinct AI agents, each with
different responsibilities, operating under different constraints, and governed differently by design. Ambient AI agents autonomously handle recon, code review, test case generation, reachability analysis, pentests, exploitability validation, documentation, and remediation. When complexity, risk, or organizational guardrails require expert judgment, pentesters engage with Copilot AI agents to conduct approved, controlled exploitation and reporting.
“Highly skilled pentesters that spend too much time on repetitive and mundane tasks are wasting valuable efforts that can be better spent on strategic judgement,” adds Gev Hadari, head of adversary services at Terra Security. “The agentic gateway turns expert time into a force multiplier, allowing a single pentester to safely oversee work that previously required entire teams.”
Terra Portal integrates natively with Terra’s broader agentic penetration testing platform. The platform uses a coordinated swarm of autonomous AI agents to continuously scope environments, discover attack surfaces, generate hypotheses, and validate vulnerabilities. When those agents encounter limits, the gateway allows human testers to operate within the same agentic workflow, preserving context and increasing efficiency.
You can find out more and request a demo on the Terra site.
