Terra Security said this week it has achieved Amazon Web Services Security Competency status in the Application Security category, including Static Code Analysis and Autonomous Security Validation, becoming the first AWS partner approved for the newly launched Autonomous Security Validation use case.
The company reached the milestone within nine months of emerging from stealth and joining the AWS Partner Network, also gaining recognition across both AWS Security and AI competencies. AWS has additionally recognized Terra as an “Agentic AI” product, which the company says makes it the only validated offensive security platform in that category.
“The era of manual, point-in-time penetration testing is ending,” said Shahar Peled, CEO and co-founder of Terra Security. “Autonomous, continuous validation is the new standard. Being the first AWS partner validated for Autonomous Security Validation and achieving differentiated recognition across both AI and Security in under a year, reflects the maturity of our agentic AI platform and the accelerating demand for scalable offensive security.”
The company says its technology is designed to address what it describes as a growing “exposure gap” in cybersecurity. While more than 60% of organizations deploy new code weekly, nearly 75% test their systems monthly or less, creating vulnerabilities that traditional penetration testing models struggle to keep up with.
“Point-in-time testing simply doesn’t hold up in modern development environments,” said Iain Paterson, chief information security officer at WELL Health. Paterson said Terra’s platform provides continuous visibility through white-box penetration testing combined with ongoing code review, while maintaining human oversight to reduce false positives.
Terra’s platform uses AI-driven penetration testing powered by agentic workflows that autonomously identify and exploit vulnerabilities, generate proof-of-impact reports and retest systems as software evolves. The company says its approach can reduce testing cycles from four to six weeks to two to four hours while expanding coverage from roughly 15% of an application to full coverage.
“This recognition validates the technical architecture we built from day one,” said Gal Malachi, Terra’s chief technology officer. “Our AI-native system continuously reasons about application behavior, safely executes controlled exploitation paths, and produces verifiable, exploit-driven findings aligned to real business risk. We look forward to deepening our integrations with AWS and continuing to advance autonomous security innovation.”
Terra’s collaboration with AWS began through its participation in the AWS and CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator and expanded through its work within the AWS Partner Network.
Brian Mendenhall, worldwide head of Security and Identity Partner Specialists at AWS, said Terra’s technology demonstrates the growing role of AI-driven testing in cybersecurity.
“Terra Security's AWS Security Competency achievement in Autonomous Security Validation demonstrates its leadership in AI-driven security testing,” Mendenhall said. “Terra's ability to autonomously discover, exploit and validate vulnerabilities at machine speed while integrating seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines makes them an invaluable partner for AWS customers looking to secure applications at development velocity.”
The AWS Security Competency designation recognizes companies that meet AWS requirements for providing cybersecurity capabilities to customers and is part of the AWS Competency Program, which helps organizations identify partners with specialized expertise in specific industries and technologies.
Terra Security, backed by investors including Felicis, Dell Technologies Capital, SYN Ventures, Lama Partners, Underscore VC, SVCI and Capital One Ventures, describes its platform as an agentic system for continuous penetration testing designed for security teams operating in fast-moving software development environments.