Layer7 Networking × RidgeSecurity

Automated penetration testing that proves your security controls work — continuously, not annually.

About RidgeSecurity

RidgeSecurity is a pioneer in automated penetration testing, delivering continuous security validation through its flagship product, RidgeBot. Unlike traditional penetration testing that happens once or twice a year and relies on scarce human expertise, RidgeBot operates as an AI-powered pentest robot — autonomously discovering, exploiting, and documenting vulnerabilities across your attack surface.

RidgeBot combines adversary intelligence, exploit frameworks, and machine learning to replicate the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of real-world threat actors. It discovers assets, enumerates attack surfaces, identifies vulnerabilities, and then safely exploits them to validate risk — producing evidence-based reports with zero false positives.

The platform supports continuous, scheduled, or on-demand testing across web applications, internal networks, Active Directory environments, databases, and cloud infrastructure — making it essential for organisations that need to prove their security posture rather than assume it.

Product Capabilities

Why Layer7 Chose RidgeSecurity

Annual penetration tests are a compliance checkbox. They tell you what was broken on one day, months ago. By the time the report lands on your desk, the environment has changed, new vulnerabilities have emerged, and the findings are already stale.

Layer7 selected RidgeSecurity because continuous validation is the only honest measure of security posture. When we deploy firewalls, configure endpoint protection, or harden cloud environments, we need to prove those controls actually work — not in theory, but against real exploit chains. RidgeBot gives us that proof on demand.

For our clients, this means security investments are validated, not just trusted. Every configuration change, every new deployment, every patch cycle can be tested automatically. The result: measurable risk reduction and evidence-based security that stands up to board-level scrutiny and regulatory audits.

How Layer7 Delivers RidgeSecurity

• Deployment and Configuration — Full RidgeBot deployment across client environments, including network segmentation for safe testing, agent placement, and integration with existing vulnerability management workflows.

• Continuous Validation Programmes — Scheduled automated penetration tests that run weekly, monthly, or on-change. Layer7 manages the test cadence, reviews findings, and escalates critical discoveries.

• Post-Deployment Assurance — After every Layer7 security implementation (firewall, EDR, ZTNA), we run RidgeBot against the deployment to prove the controls hold. This is our internal quality gate.

• Red Team Augmentation — RidgeBot supplements human red team engagements by providing breadth. The AI robot covers the full attack surface while human testers focus on complex, logic-based attack chains.

• Compliance Evidence — Automated generation of penetration test reports mapped to PCI DSS, ISO 27001, POPIA, and other frameworks. Evidence on demand, not once a year.

• Remediation Tracking — Layer7 correlates RidgeBot findings with remediation actions, tracking fix rates and re-testing to confirm closure.