Replace your annual pentest with proof for every release.

Most teams ship every week and test once a year. Staris runs the same depth of testing on every release. Every finding comes with a working exploit and a patch your engineers can merge.

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Why annual testing stopped keeping up

Annual testing made sense when proving a finding meant an expert sitting down with your application for a week. That work is expensive and there is only so much of it to go around, so most teams buy it once a year and accept that the report ages. If you ship weekly, by the time you read it the report describes an application you no longer run, and everything you have deployed since is untested. Most security teams already know this. What they haven't had is a practical way to test at the speed they ship.

The Validation Gap

Finding potential vulnerabilities is now nearly free. Proving which ones are real still takes expert human time — so it gets rationed. Batched into one pentest a year, or piled into a queue your team can never clear. The gap between found and proven is where risk actually lives.

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Staris closes it. Every finding is proven with a working exploit against your running application and ships with the patch that closes it — at your release cadence, not once a year.

How Staris Transforms Application Security Testing

From automated penetration testing to verified vulnerability reporting, discover how Staris delivers faster, more comprehensive security validation for your team.

What the swap costs

A single Staris cycle is $4,900, against roughly $8,000 for a comparable one-off pentest. A year of Staris Validated is $54,000 for twelve cycles with expert review and a signed monthly Receipt; twelve one-off tests would run about $96,000. Most teams don't make the switch to save money. They make it because one test a year is no longer something they can defend to a customer or a board. The lower cost just makes the budget conversation shorter.

If your customers ask for a pentest report

What they want to know is whether a qualified third party tested your application and whether you fixed what they found. The PDF is just the format that answer has arrived in. Staris issues a signed Receipt each cycle recording what was tested, what was proven exploitable, and what was patched, reviewed by a named expert. You can share it the same way you shared the report, and it's current every month instead of once a year.

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By reducing the time required for each test and making every test fit within our budget, we’ve been able to scale our security coverage without compromise. The quality of Staris AI’s results has actually exceeded what we had before, giving us both speed and confidence.
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Testing on your release cadence

Validation runs when you ship, so the evidence reflects the version you're actually running in production.

Every finding is demonstrated

Staris exploits the vulnerability against your running application and hands you the execution trace, so there's nothing left for your team to confirm.

Fixes your engineers can merge

What they want to know is whether a qualified third party tested your application and whether you fixed what they found. The PDF is just the format that answer has arrived in. Staris issues a signed Receipt each cycle recording what was tested, what was proven exploitable, and what was patched, reviewed by a named expert. You can share it the same way you shared the report, and it's current every month instead of once a year.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Staris?

Staris is a continuous application security validation platform that proves which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in running applications. Staris replaces scanner noise and point-in-time pentesting with continuous, provable security validation.

What does "continuous, provable validation" mean?

Continuous, provable validation means security testing that runs on a recurring, release-aligned basis and produces validated evidence of exploitability. Instead of relying on point-in-time pentesting or large volumes of scanner findings, teams use Staris to continuously prove which vulnerabilities actually matter.

Who is Staris built for?

Staris is built for software companies that ship frequently, expose APIs or customer-facing applications, and need provable security validation without relying entirely on manual pentesting. It is especially well suited for ISVs and product teams that have outgrown scanner-heavy workflows.

What does Staris replace in my current stack?

Staris replaces point-in-time penetration testing and the manual validation work your team does on scanner output. Your existing tools keep surfacing candidates; Staris proves which of them are actually exploitable and ships a working exploit plus a PR-ready patch on every finding.

What types of vulnerabilities does Staris find?

Staris focuses on exploitable vulnerabilities that can be demonstrated end-to-end — including broken access controls, authentication bypasses, injection flaws, and business logic errors. Each reported finding includes proof of exploitability with steps to reproduce, so your team fixes only real, validated risks instead of triaging unverified scanner alerts.

What does "verified" or "proven exploitability" mean?

Verified vulnerabilities are security issues Staris has successfully exploited, eliminating false positives and ensuring real-world risk relevance.

How does Staris simulate real attacker behavior?

Staris AI simulates real attacker behavior against your application, executes controlled exploits, and confirms only real, exploitable vulnerabilities with contextual remediation guidance.

What kind of remediation guidance does Staris provide?

Staris provides actionable remediation guidance mapped directly to the exploited vulnerability, including root cause, impact, and code-level recommendations.

Can I limit what Staris tests?

Yes, you have complete control over the scope and actions Staris takes ensuring it never performs an action against your environment you didn't approve.

How does Staris differ from traditional vulnerability scanners?

Scanners, SAST tools, and code review products identify potential vulnerabilities or risky patterns in code. Staris validates whether vulnerabilities are actually exploitable in the running application. That is why Staris helps teams reduce false positives, prioritize real attacker paths, and move from possible findings to validated risk.

Does Staris replace SAST and DAST?

No — and that's deliberate. SAST, DAST, and SCA answer the question what might be wrong? Staris answers the next one: what is actually exploitable, and what's the patch? Your scanners keep doing what they do well. Staris reads the application in context, proves which candidates are real — including the broken access controls and business-logic flaws scanners can't reach — and ships a PR-ready patch with each one. Nothing gets ripped out. The queue gets shorter.

How does Staris differ from traditional penetration testing?

Staris AI provides continuous security validation through verified exploitation and contextual remediation guidance.

How does Staris handle source code access and data isolation?

Staris analyzes application code and behavior to validate exploitability, but deployment options allow organizations to retain full control of their source code and infrastructure. Staris can run within customer-controlled environments, ensuring sensitive data remains secure and isolated.

Does Staris train its models on customer data?

No. Staris does not train its models on customer application code or sensitive data. Staris analyzes applications solely to validate security and provide remediation guidance, and customer data remains isolated within the deployment environment.

Can Staris run in a private VPC or be self-hosted?

Yes. Staris supports deployment in private VPC and fully self-hosted environments, allowing organizations with strict security and compliance requirements to run Staris entirely within their own infrastructure.

What security practices does Staris follow?

Staris follows modern security best practices, supports private deployments, does not train on any customer data, and never exposes customer data outside authorized environments.

Does Staris support RBAC and SSO?

Yes. Staris supports role-based access control (RBAC) and single sign-on (SSO) in Pro, Validated, and Enterprise plans.