Sentinel / Continuous adversarial testing

Continuously test systems your organisation has approved, demonstrate exploitable findings, and send the evidence and remediation path back to Athena.

A concrete example

A new checkout service is exposed

Input

An owned and explicitly approved target, the allowed attack surface, scope credential, egress boundary, and correlation identifier.

Action

Sentinel maps the reachable surface, chooses the next test, and attempts exploitation inside the supplied boundary.

Result

A demonstrated finding, reproduction evidence, remediation context, or refusal returns to Athena.

What you receive

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Demonstrated finding

An exploitable result with the reproduction evidence available for review.

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Evidence envelope

A signed record of findings, actions, and refusals from the run.

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Remediation path

The evidence and technical context needed to prioritise and govern a fix.

How it works

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Discover
Map the approved target and the reachable surface inside the supplied scope.
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Choose the next move
Use the current evidence to select the next bounded test rather than a fixed checklist alone.
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Attempt exploitation
Run the approved offensive tools within the target, execution, and egress controls.
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Prove or refuse
Preserve evidence for a demonstrated result, or record the refusal when a boundary blocks the action.
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Return the response
Send the finding, evidence, and remediation context to Athena for a governed decision.

Inside the mechanism

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Approved target and scope credential

The run begins with an owned, explicitly approved target descriptor and a scope credential. Target, execution, and egress boundaries are inputs to the run, not optional instructions to the agent.

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Adaptive test path

Sentinel combines discovery, detection, and targeted exploitation. The next step is selected from the evidence observed so far, while every action remains subject to the supplied controls.

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Evidence and refusal

A demonstrated exploit is packaged with reproduction and remediation context. A refused action is also a first-class result, so the record shows where the boundary held.

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Athena remediation lane

Findings return to Athena under the same identity and correlation identifier. The remediation can then become an exact proposal with named authority and a recorded outcome.

What it proves

Bounded claim

For a demonstrated finding, the evidence shows what action succeeded against the approved target and what reproduction material the run retained.

What it does not prove

Permanent boundary

Continuous adversarial testing Only for infrastructure the organisation owns and has explicitly approved for testing. A run does not prove that every possible vulnerability has been found or that every attempted exploit succeeds.

How it connects to Athena

Input

Approved target, attack surface, scope credential, egress boundary, tool set, identity, and correlation identifier.

Output

Finding or refusal, reproduction evidence, remediation context, and evidence envelope.

Shared record

Athena joins the testing result to the named response, bounded remediation, outcome, and retained evidence.

Continue the review

Inspect the session boundary and supported code response