Outpost24 | Best Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Platform

Overview

Founded in 2001 by a team of ethical hackers in Karlskrona, Sweden, Outpost24 is a leading global provider of cybersecurity risk management solutions. The company helps over 3,000 organizations across 65+ countries proactively identify, manage, and reduce cyber risk across both their digital and human attack surfaces.

Outpost24 operates through two specialized divisions. Outpost24 Attack Surface Management focuses on complete exposure management, cyber threat intelligence, and application security, enabling customers to discover what they own, identify what is exposed, prioritize risk, and validate remediation. Specops Identity Security is a specialist in Zero Trust Workforce Access, password security, and identity management solutions that secure both human and non-human elements of the attack surface.

Backed by Vitruvian Partners, Outpost24 combines over two decades of offensive security expertise with deep technical capabilities. With 300+ employees and a global footprint spanning 14 offices across the US, UK, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Israel, and its Swedish headquarters, Outpost24 acts as a seamless extension of its customers' security teams.

The company has earned recognition from leading industry analysts, including IDC (Major Player, Worldwide Exposure Management 2025), Gartner (Niche Player, Exposure Management 2025), and KuppingerCole (the only European vendor named an Overall Leader in the 2025 ASM Leadership Compass). In 2025, Outpost24 was also recognized as a Challenger and Fast Mover in GigaOm's Radar for Penetration Testing as a Service.

Key Capabilities

CyberFlex is Outpost24's managed application security program. It solves a key problem in the market: the ingredients of application security are widely available as separate products (attack surface management tools, penetration testing services, advisory consultancies), but organizations are left to assemble the operating model themselves. CyberFlex packages that model into a single managed program. It combines continuous External Attack Surface Management (EASM), expert-led Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), and AppSec advisory, delivered through one platform, with a defined lifecycle of discovery, prioritization, and testing, and a flexible budget that reallocates across services as the threat environment and priorities change.

A Defined Program, Not a Set of Tools

The defining characteristic of CyberFlex is that it replaces fragmented, standalone tools with a single, advisory-led program delivered as one continuous model. Discovery, risk-based prioritization, expert testing, validation, and remediation support are connected into a single workflow rather than left as disconnected point solutions, with clear ownership and a regular cadence. Customers get the security outcome without having to stand up and run an internal application security team.

Continuous Attack Surface Discovery

CyberFlex continuously discovers and maps an organization's external-facing applications, domains, hosts, and certificates, including shadow IT and newly deployed assets. This always-on discovery ensures the program always reflects the real environment rather than relying on static inventories or periodic scans. Security teams gain a live, evolving view of the application attack surface, so every application in scope is identified and accounted for.

Risk-Based Testing Driven by Discovery

Discovery is not an end in itself. In CyberFlex, what the EASM layer finds directly shapes what gets tested. Newly exposed or high-criticality assets are prioritized for expert-led penetration testing, so testing budget is spent where real risk concentrates rather than on a static list agreed in isolation at the start of the year. This closes the gap between knowing what is exposed and validating whether it can actually be exploited.

Expert-Led Penetration Testing as a Service

Outpost24's CREST-certified, EU-based AppSec team conducts hands-on, manual penetration testing that validates whether identified exposures are genuinely exploitable. Every finding is verified before it reaches the customer, eliminating false positives so development teams only act on real risk. The toolkit spans the full range of application criticality, from continuous automated DAST scanning through to in-depth manual engagements, with AI and LLM application testing mapped to the OWASP LLM Top 10.

Advisory-Led with a Flexible Budget

CyberFlex is run as a managed service. Outpost24 experts handle scoping, prioritization, triage, reviews, and remediation support, working as an extension of the customer's team. The program operates on a flexible, consumption-based budget that is sized to the program rather than locked into rigid per-application contracts. That budget can be reviewed and reallocated across any engagement type throughout the year as the environment and priorities change, so spend stays aligned to current risk and no budget expires unspent.

One Unified Journey

CyberFlex brings discovery, testing, remediation support, and budget tracking into a single platform and a single workflow, replacing the fragmented experience of running separate tools and vendors. The unified interface gives security leaders one place to manage the full program, from discovery to findings to fix verification. CyberFlex integrates into existing security operations, SIEM and SOAR workflows, and DevSecOps pipelines, fitting the tools and processes organizations already use.

Remediation Support and Retesting

CyberFlex supports the full remediation lifecycle. Findings are clear and actionable, and Outpost24's experts stay engaged through remediation and fix verification. Once fixes are implemented, organizations can request retesting through the same platform to confirm that vulnerabilities have been effectively resolved, closing the loop between discovery, validation, and remediation.

How we are different

A Program, Where Competitors Sell Components

The market offers the ingredients of application security but not the program. EASM vendors stop at discovery and reporting. PTaaS providers sell pen tests as a transactional or subscription service. Consultancies deliver advisory but lack the platform and the continuous coverage. None package these into a managed, risk-based program with a unified journey, advisory-led, flexible consumption. CyberFlex's differentiation is not the individual capabilities, it is the program wrapper: managed-service ownership, advisory-led engagement, and a single customer journey that competitors would need to rebuild end to end to match. Competitors sell tools. CyberFlex sells the outcome.

Visibility That Drives Action

Most organizations manage attack surface discovery and penetration testing as disconnected activities, which leaves newly discovered assets untested and pen test findings divorced from continuous monitoring. CyberFlex makes discovery and testing a single, continuous loop. Continuous EASM feeds directly into pen test scoping, so testing focuses on the assets that actually matter and remediation cycles get faster. This continuous, always-on model aligns with the industry shift toward continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) that analysts and regulators increasingly require.

Managed by Experts, Governed by Design

CyberFlex is built for organizations that take application security seriously but cannot justify a dedicated internal AppSec team to run it. Outpost24 owns the program operationally: scoping, triage, reviews, and remediation support, delivered by a CREST-certified, EU-based AppSec team founded in offensive security. This human-led testing catches vulnerabilities that automated tools miss, particularly in complex application logic, authentication flows, and business process abuse, and the managed cadence gives customers a continuous, demonstrable record of risk reduction rather than point-in-time pen test reports.

Right-Sized for Every Stage

CyberFlex is delivered through tiered packages (Core, Advanced, and Premium) aligned to an organization's scale, complexity, and operational maturity, from a self-managed model with annual review through to a fully managed service with continuous oversight, ongoing maintenance, and takedown support. This gives organizations a clear entry point and a defined path to expand as their footprint and needs grow, without migrating platforms or renegotiating the vendor relationship.

Analyst-Recognized Strength Across the Disciplines It Unifies

CyberFlex draws on capabilities where Outpost24 has earned independent analyst recognition in both areas it brings together. On the exposure management side, Outpost24 is a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Exposure Management and the only European vendor named an Overall Leader in KuppingerCole's ASM Leadership Compass. On the penetration testing side, GigaOm recognized Outpost24 as a Challenger and Fast Mover. This means CyberFlex is not an ASM tool with lightweight testing bolted on, nor a pen testing service with superficial discovery added. It is a genuine program built on Outpost24's demonstrated strength.

Proven Customer Impact

CyberFlex and Outpost24's underlying application security capabilities have a proven track record of delivering measurable outcomes. RS Group, a global distributor of industrial and electronic products and an Outpost24 customer since 2016, uses the combined program to gain visibility not just into application vulnerabilities across its thousand-plus domains, but into broader brand and reputational risk. Its Security Operations and Vulnerability Manager, Simon King, credits Outpost24 with helping "transform our security operations." These outcomes reflect the value of a managed program: continuous discovery ensures nothing is missed, expert-led testing validates real risk, and a flexible, governed budget directs security investment where it matters most.

European DNA, Global Delivery

Headquartered in Sweden with 14 offices worldwide, Outpost24 brings strong European data sovereignty credentials to a market where regulatory compliance increasingly shapes purchasing decisions. CyberFlex supports organizations meeting penetration testing and application security requirements across frameworks including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIS2, and DORA. A structured, continuous program is increasingly not just good practice but a regulatory expectation, providing the ongoing, risk-based testing and documentation that regulators look for. Outpost24's global presence ensures consistent delivery regardless of where customers or their applications operate.

Outpost24 CyberFlex · Managed Application Security