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Bishop Fox vs Praetorian Guard

Cosmos discovers your external attack surface and queues findings for consultants. Guard's AI agents simultaneously attack your perimeter, applications, cloud, internal network, CICD pipelines, and LLMs — with the top 1% of offensive operators validating every result and hunting zero-days your scanners will never find.

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Praetorian Guard is Trusted by the World's Most Iconic Brands

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Cosmos Discovers. Guard Discovers, Exploits, and Validates Continuously.

Bishop Fox runs a solid Cosmos platform with elite human consultants and published zero-day research. Guard augments the human layer with agentic AI: bounded AI agents run continuous offense at machine speed, with top 1% OffSec operators validating every finding.

Cosmos Covers External ASM and App Pentesting. Guard Unifies Every Surface.

Cosmos focuses on external attack surface and application pentesting — internal network, cloud, CICD, and supply chain come through separate consulting engagements. Guard unifies continuous offense across every surface under one platform — with elite human validation built in, not billed by engagement.

Cosmos Queues Findings for Consultants. Guard Delivers Outcomes Continuously.

Bishop Fox's human bandwidth limits coverage cadence. Guard scales continuous offense at machine speed — auto-ticketed when risk is demonstrated, EDR-integrated for detection gap analysis, autonomous retest — with 24/7 elite operator oversight. The annual engagement model is over.

Praetorian Guard vs Bishop Fox

Praetorian Guard

Bishop Fox

Praetorian Guard

Bishop Fox

Core Value

Bundled With Experts
Saves your team time by bundling offensive security experts into the subscription who find, verify, and validate assets and material risk
Map Attack Surface
Discover unknown and shadow IT
Consolidated Savings
Guard integrates with existing technology across ASM, VM, UVM, CTI, BAS, and AEV with a path to consolidate and save over time.
Map Attack Path & Kill Chain
Demonstrates attack path and cascading compromise
Satisfies Annual Pen Test Compliance
Saves money on annual penetration testing by satisfying annual requirements while providing continuous coverage
Remediation Support
Expert led mitigation strategies when cookie cutter recommendations won't work
Zero False Positives
All output verified and validated by experts

Product Category Coverage

Attack Surface Management (ASM)
Identify Internet facing assets
Application Security Testing (AST)
Natively supports or integrated with AST solutions
Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS)
Natively supports or integrates with BAS solutions
Continuous Penetration Testing (COS)
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)
Natively supports or integrates with CTI solutions
Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM)
Natively supports consolidations of assets and risks

Attack Surface & Vector Coverage

Internet Perimeter
Externally exposed assets and risk
Internal Intranet
Internally facing, on-prem assets and risk
Cloud Workloads
Cloud assets and risk
Code Repositories
Public repo exposures and code risks
Web Applications
Externally exposed web applications

Integrations

Chat Messaging (CM)
Supports integrations such as Slack, Teams, and Gchat
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
Supports integrations such as Wiz and Orca
Cloud Service Providers (CSP)
Supports integrations such as AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and GCP
Endpoint Detection Response (EDR)
Supports integrations such Crowdstrike, MS Defender, and SentinelOne
Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Supports integrations such as OKTA, PingID, Entra ID, and 0365
IT Service Management (ITSM)
Supports integrations such as ServiceNow, FreshDesk, and JIRA
Managed DNS Providers
Supports integrations such as Akamai Edge, NS1, Cloudflare, UltraDNS
Plextrac Reporting
Supports direct integration with Plextrac Reporting
Security Info and Event Management (SIEM)
Supports integrations such as Splunk and Google SecOps
Single Sign On (SSO)
Supports integrations such as OKTA, PingID, Entra ID, and 0365
Source Code Managers
Supports integrations such as Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket
Web Application Firewalls (WAF)
Supports integrations such as Cloudflare WAF and Imperva
Application Security Testing (AST)
Supports Integrations such as Invicti and Burp Enterprise

The Praetorian Guard platform pressure tests our cybersecurity program's effectiveness every single day.

- Melody Hildebrandt CTO, FOX

Reduce Cost

25-50% spend reduction by consolidating ASM, VM, CTI, BAS, and Annual Penetration Tests into a single Platform

Save Time

50-70% reduction of non-needling moving remediation activity

Eliminate Noise

70% faster MTTR; critical vulns validated or closed in record time with a trusted 3rd party guiding and verifying remediation

Satisfy Compliance

100% annual penetration test compliance requirement for CMMC, DSP Toolkit, FDA, GLBA, HIPAA, NERC, NYDFS, PCI DSS, and SWIFT CSP

Extend Team

24/7 offensive security coverage without the burden of recruitment, onboarding, or retention

Improve Security

3X less likely to suffer a breach when investments are made in a continuous exposure management program

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Built With 
Adversary DNA.

Guard is more than software. It’s AI-driven offensive security, operated by the same people who’ve breached the world’s hardest targets — and built the defenses to stop them.

Our platform is designed and managed by the top 1% of offensive security operators. Red teamers who’ve uncovered zero-days, shaped global standards, and trained the best in the industry.

Guard fuses machine speed with human expertise — to validate real risk, eliminate guesswork, and help security teams act with confidence.

Because stopping threats takes more than automation. It takes experience, insight, and a platform designed to outpace the adversary.

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