UltraViolet Cyber Launches Solstice: A Proprietary AI Platform to Transform Application Penetration Testing

iTech360Hub | 7 min read | Press Release

UltraViolet Cyber, the only security operations partner that unifies red, blue, and purple team capabilities into one integrated offering, has announced the launch of UltraViolet Solstice — its proprietary AI platform purpose-built for application penetration testing. The announcement marks a significant step in how enterprise security teams approach application-layer risk in an era of ever-expanding digital attack surfaces.

Built on the accumulated knowledge of more than 30,000 UltraViolet engagements spanning six years, Solstice is designed to run alongside the company's senior practitioners — not replace them. The platform delivers broader attack surface coverage, faster engagement cycles, and intelligence that compounds with every test, giving security teams a durable advantage that no point-in-time manual assessment can offer.

The launch responds to a longstanding tension in application security testing: autonomous AI tools are fast but shallow, while manual testing is precise but rate-limited by human hours. Solstice is architected to close that gap — letting AI handle the scaffolding while practitioners handle the judgment.

30,000+

UltraViolet Engagements Powering Solstice

6 Years

Real-World Pentest Data in Training Corpus

3-in-1

Red, Blue & Purple Team Capabilities Unified

What Makes Solstice Different from Commercial AI Tools

Most AI tools in the security space are trained on generic datasets and produce results that are difficult to contextualize. Solstice takes a fundamentally different approach. It is trained exclusively on UltraViolet Cyber's proprietary knowledge base — including the company's runbooks, historical findings, and engagement patterns across every framework and industry vertical it has assessed.

This means Solstice does not start from zero. Unlike autonomous tools that fire requests at scale and match responses against known patterns — surfacing noise while missing business logic flaws — Solstice is human-directed, evidence-linked, and carries institutional context forward from one engagement to the next.

Every finding generated by Solstice includes the HTTP request and response that proves it, ensuring that practitioners and clients receive substantiated, actionable intelligence rather than generic alerts stripped of context.

"AI does not replace our pentesters, it amplifies them, and better pentests make every other part of the security operation smarter. We designed Solstice to deliver what serious security programs require: strategic and repeatable expertise on every engagement, every customer and every surface."

— Ira Goldstein, CEO, UltraViolet Cyber

Persistent Memory: Intelligence That Compounds Over Time

One of Solstice's most consequential capabilities is its persistent memory across engagements. Confirmed findings, dismissed false positives, and application-specific behaviors carry forward from one assessment to the next. This creates a compounding advantage that is unavailable from any point-in-time manual engagement and impossible to replicate with off-the-shelf automated scanners.

Critically, this institutional knowledge is derived from anonymized patterns, runbooks, and methodology — not client data. Testing artifacts and engagement-specific context are handled under the same data protection terms as any UltraViolet penetration testing engagement, ensuring that no client's sensitive information is used to train models that benefit other organizations.

Pre-Test Intelligence Gathering

Solstice automates surface reconnaissance and pre-engagement intelligence collection, enabling practitioners to walk into every test with a richer understanding of the target application's architecture, exposed endpoints, and framework-specific vulnerability patterns.

Parallel Agentic Testing

Multiple AI agents work concurrently across different attack vectors while practitioners guide strategy. This parallel architecture dramatically compresses engagement timelines without sacrificing depth or the human judgment required to identify nuanced business logic vulnerabilities.

Just-in-Time Guidance & Engagement-Brain Reporting

Solstice surfaces contextual recommendations to practitioners in real time during engagements, then synthesizes findings into coherent, evidence-backed reports. The "engagement brain" retains the full narrative of each test so reporting reflects integrated understanding rather than concatenated scanner output.

Compounding Institutional Knowledge

Every engagement makes the next one smarter. Solstice's memory architecture means organizations that engage UltraViolet repeatedly receive progressively richer assessments — each test informed by every prior finding, dismissed false positive, and application-specific behavior observed on their environment.

Built for Enterprise and Federal Security Programs

UltraViolet Cyber serves Global 2000 enterprises and Federal clients across industries including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, utilities, airports, and software. Solstice is designed to scale with these organizations' complex, distributed application portfolios — where attack surfaces are large, compliance requirements are stringent, and the cost of a missed vulnerability is measured in millions.

For existing UltraViolet clients, Solstice AI-augmented testing is available on upcoming engagements through their account teams. For security leaders new to UltraViolet Cyber, the company is offering capabilities briefings with its AppSec practice lead.

"The question every organization today should be asking themselves is, 'What is the right division of labor between the human expert and the machine?', and Solstice is our answer."

— Ira Goldstein, CEO, UltraViolet Cyber

Sectors Served

Financial Services Federal & Government Healthcare Manufacturing Utilities Software / SaaS Airports & Logistics

Key Takeaways

UltraViolet Cyber has launched Solstice, a proprietary AI platform trained exclusively on 30,000+ real-world penetration testing engagements — not generic public data.

Solstice augments senior practitioners rather than replacing them, handling scaffolding and reconnaissance while humans retain judgment on complex business logic vulnerabilities.

Persistent memory across engagements means confirmed findings, dismissed false positives, and application-specific behaviors carry forward — creating a compounding advantage unavailable from any point-in-time assessment.

Client data is never used to train models that benefit other clients — institutional knowledge compounds from anonymized patterns and runbooks only, ensuring robust data privacy.

Every finding includes the HTTP request and response that proves it — delivering substantiated, evidence-backed intelligence rather than unverified scanner noise.

Solstice is available now for existing UltraViolet clients and new enterprise or federal security programs seeking AI-augmented application penetration testing at scale.

The launch of Solstice comes as application portfolios across enterprise and government organizations continue to grow faster than security teams can manually test them. With threat actors increasingly targeting application-layer vulnerabilities — and compliance frameworks raising the bar for assurance — the gap between what organizations need to test and what they can realistically assess has become a critical risk. UltraViolet's bet is that AI-augmented, practitioner-led testing is the architecture that closes it.

By unifying red, blue, and purple team capabilities under one roof and now embedding proprietary AI across the application security testing workflow, UltraViolet Cyber is staking out a position as the firm that builds the operational connective tissue between offensive findings and defensive outcomes — making every pentest smarter than the last.

To learn more about UltraViolet Solstice and request a capabilities briefing, visit UltraViolet Cyber's official Solstice page.