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Horizon3 AI vs Praetorian Guard

One platform. Seven attack fronts. Zero false positives. Guard combines AI-driven offense with the top 1% of offensive security operators — continuously finding and validating the exposures that actually matter. Replace your ASM, BAS, and annual pentest with attacker-verified security.

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

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NodeZero Autonomously Pentests. Guard Adds Elite Human Validation.

NodeZero runs sophisticated autonomous pentests across internal, external, and cloud environments with real exploit chaining, and the Horizon3 Attack Team does solid zero-day research. Guard pairs machine-speed AI with the top 1% of OffSec operators who approve attack plans, apply creative adversary tradecraft, and validate every finding — zero false positives, not just autonomous output.

NodeZero Chains Exploits. Guard Chains Exploits + Zero-Day Research In Your Code.

NodeZero chains known vulnerabilities brilliantly. Guard's Constantine agent hunts zero-days directly in your source code, writes working exploits, and can patch the codebase. You find what nobody else has — validated by elite humans, at machine speed.

NodeZero Delivers Autonomous Reports. Guard Delivers Continuous Offensive Security.

NodeZero is a pentesting platform. Guard is a complete offensive security operating model: agentic AI plus top 1% operators plus EDR-integrated detection gap analysis plus auto-ticketing plus autonomous retest. Offense-proven security, continuously.

Praetorian Guard vs Horizon3 AI

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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

Elevate Your Offensive Security. Free 30 Day Pilot.

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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