RemoteThreat Launches AI-Assisted Platform for Red-Team Testing
Summary
RemoteThreat emerged from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding. Its platform helps enterprise and government teams conduct red-team assessments, including testing how defenses perform after attackers bypass security controls.
Key points
- RemoteThreat was founded in 2025 by CEO Chris Thompson and CTO Shawn Jones and has raised $7 million in pre-seed funding.
- The platform is intended to help enterprise and government teams test defenses against varied threats and assess what happens after an attacker gains access.
- RemoteThreat says it builds new tools for each simulation rather than relying on static payloads.
- Teams can use their own AI models, operate the platform without AI, or use a hybrid approach with AI assistance.
- The founders aim to help organizations test more quickly and at greater scale, while evaluating detection and other controls beyond endpoint detection and response.
Article Details
- Event Type
- RemoteThreat emerged from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding for its AI-assisted offensive cyber operations and red-team testing platform.
- Impact
- The platform is intended to help enterprise and government security teams test defenses against adaptable threats, including scenarios where attackers bypass endpoint detection and response controls. The article reports no specific breach or victim impact.
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BankingDefenseChris Thompson made a career of breaking into banks, nuclear power plants, and defense contractors — and getting paid by companies to do it. Now he recognizes that red-team penetration testing is evolving dramatically.EnergyHealthcareto be the only control preventing someone from getting on a bank's foreign exchange platform, stealing healthcare data, or breaking into a nuclear controlled network, for example.