Digital Encode has announced the launch of DEPAS AI (Digital Encode Penetration Autonomous System), an enterprise penetration testing platform designed to counter the growing threat of AI-driven cybercrime.
The launch comes as artificial intelligence accelerates the scale and sophistication of global cyberthreats. According to IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report, AI-enabled breaches now account for 25% of all malicious incidents, a 56% year-over-year increase with average costs reaching US4.99 million. Regionally, attack activity is led by North America (29%), Asia-Pacific (27%), Europe (25%), Middle East & Africa (10%), and Latin America (9%).
“AI is now being weaponized by attackers to move faster than human teams can respond. DEPAS AI combines Artificial Intelligence with Human Intelligence to give organizations the same speed and scale in defense. We are reimagining penetration testing for the AI era,” said Prof. Peter Obadare, Chief Visionary Officer at Digital Encode.
DEPAS AI works by transitioning organizations from periodic, manual security assessments to continuous autonomous defense across enterprise applications, web apps, APIs, mobile apps, backend systems, cloud environments, and network infrastructure. Through agentic orchestration, specialized AI security agents operate concurrently across the entire attack surface while an agentic coordinator manages full system context, analyzes real-time results, and spawns follow-up agents for deep coverage. To ensure verified accuracy, an independent verification agent reproduces every finding to eliminate false positives. Additionally, the platform features attack chain mapping through a proprietary chain-builder that links individual vulnerabilities into multi-step, high-impact attack paths to simulate real-world adversary behavior.
Its core capabilities include 24/7 autonomous testing across application, cloud, and network assets, as well as verified accuracy through independent validation to remove false positive noise. It provides attack chain mapping to visualize how disparate flaws can be exploited in sequence, alongside actionable outcomes such as executive-ready reporting, remediation guidance, and compliance mapping.