Roberto Popolizio
Updated on: April 17, 2025
Companies are still paying six figures for pentests that take weeks to run and deliver static PDF reports — even though 5,000 new vulnerabilities are discovered every month. It’s not just outdated. It’s dangerous.
In this interview with SafetyDetectives, Red Sentry CEO Valentina Flores explains why they rebuilt pentesting from the ground up, and why waiting a year for your next test could cost you everything.
Why Traditional Pentests Can’t Keep Up With Today’s Threats
Most pentesting today is slow, expensive, and outdated. Companies wait weeks or even months. They pay tens of thousands of dollars. And what they get is a static PDF report that’s already outdated the moment it arrives.
Meanwhile, attackers are moving fast. Over 5,000 new vulnerabilities are discovered every single month. Threat actors use automation, creativity, and speed to exploit gaps—and they’re increasingly targeting the most vulnerable sectors: fast-growing SaaS startups, schools, hospitals, and public services. All industries that can barely afford pentesting at all.
In fact, legacy pentesting firms cater mainly to large enterprises with deep pockets. Everyone else is left with two bad options:
- Big firms that charge six figures and take months to deliver a report
- Automated scanners that flood teams with shallow, noisy vulnerability lists
Neither option helps you actually reduce risk.
Worse, this checkbox culture has spread across industries, with teams running a pentest once a year to meet compliance and calling it a day. They don’t understand that compliance doesn’t mean security. Not anymore.
“Hackers use automation, hackers are creative, and hackers are agile. So pentesting firms should follow suit and truly imitate that experience, so they can test more often, provide better assessments, and actually reduce risk instead of just checking a box.”
A Faster, More Realistic Way to Do Pentesting
Red Sentry was built to mimic exactly how hackers operate:
- Real pentests from a hacker’s perspective
- Frequent and fast testing cycles, not once a year
- Human-in-the-loop where it matters most, not just automation
- Actionable results, not just reports
Security isn’t a one-time exercise. It has to be continuous, affordable, and realistic. Our model gives teams the context and frequency they need to actually fix vulnerabilities before they’re exploited.
Need proofs?
- NPS: 77% — more than double the industry average
- CSAT: 100% so far this year
- G2 Rating: 4.9 stars
These aren’t vanity metrics. They reflect what happens when you remove the pain from pentesting: faster insights, cleaner workflows, and better protection, all without the cost or delays of legacy approaches.
Everyone deserves security that moves at hacker speed
Legacy vendors have forgotten about all those companies without giant budgets (but with just as much ris) that more than anyone else need to:
- Make continuous, human-informed pentesting accessible to everyone
- Help engineering teams integrate security into the development lifecycle
- Shift from reactive to proactive before it’s too late
Red Sentry is closing this gap, but the question is “why hasn’t the rest of the industry caught up?”
Is it time to demand more from our security partners?
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