DeepCore debut live starting - 4th of July! (Making PenetrationTesting Great Again) MPGA!: Agentic pentesting, on your side of the firewall — for ~88% less than the incumbent quote (4 July 2026)
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- Jul 4
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Updated: Jul 10
By DNSystems LLC (dnsystemsllc.com/ptrg)
The 6th face of PTRG ships today. One Docker container, host networking, no vendor appliance. Agentic discovery WITH enforced operator-validation. Public pricing, monthly billing, cancel anytime. And yes — we go head-to-head with Pentera and BreachLock below.
Every enterprise pentest RFP now asks the same three questions:
1. Can you run this inside my network, on my schedule, without me shipping data to your cloud?
2. Can you run it agentically — no operator on the keyboard for the boring 80% — and still stand behind the CRIT/HIGH findings with a real human signature?
3. Can you tell me the price without a discovery call?
The incumbents answer *yes / partial / no*.
That's the gap DeepCore was built to close.
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What DeepCore actually is...
DeepCore is the on-prem orchestration plane inside PTRG. It's a lightweight Docker container that runs on any Linux box already in your data center — bare metal, VM, Kubernetes DaemonSet, it doesn't care. No custom appliance, no vendor ISO, no forklift.
Once it's running, DeepCore does three things:
- Streams passive discovery upward — ARP neighbours, reverse DNS, local subnet interfaces, mDNS service inventory — over a persistent WebSocket to your PTRG operator queue. Read-only by default. Nothing that would trip an IDS or violate change control.
- Orchestrates the four in-engagement pillars — DeepScope (recon), DeepStrike (exploit), DeepTalent (dispatch the credentialed operator), PTRG (reporting) — from inside your network. DeepTraining, the fifth pillar, keeps the operator bench sharp upstream.
- Two-party authorization on every active step. Nothing active fires until both the client-side authorizer and the DeepTalent-side operator sign. That's not a checkbox on a form — it's an enforced platform state.
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DeepCore vs Pentera Core
Pentera Core is the incumbent in the "internal autonomous pentest" category. Here's where DeepCore is different — verified against Pentera's own public website and Frost Radar 2026 as of Feb 2026, not marketing PR:
Read the full row-by-row at [ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/vs/pentera](https://ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/vs/pentera).
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DeepCore vs BreachLock
BreachLock published a CISO guide this month naming a new category — *Agentic AEV* (Adversarial Exposure Validation). The thesis: agentic-AI-driven discovery without validation is a new security risk, and continuous validation is becoming critical.
They're right.
They're also describing what PTRG has been shipping since day one — under the (less catchy) name Validated-Stamp.
Read the full row-by-row at [ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/vs/breachlock](https://ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/vs/breachlock).
BreachLock gave the category a name. We appreciate the assist.
Autonomous TARA Authoring - ISO 21434/IEC 62443.
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Every finding: Validated vs Suspected — operator-signed either way
This is the single biggest reason AI-only pentest platforms can't ship what PTRG ships.
Every finding in every PTRG report carries three enforced states:
1. Validated — a credentialed DeepTalent operator ran the exploit to ground and produced an **execution artifact** (HAR file, pcap, terminal transcript, or photograph). No artifact = not validated.
2. Operator-signed — the validating operator's name, cert level, and cryptographic signature stamp the finding. Auditable back to the DeepTalent bench and, at engagement close, back to the Stripe Connect payout that closed the loop.
3. Suspected — the autonomous engine (DeepScope / DeepStrike) surfaced the signal, but no operator has closed the two-eye gate yet. Marked visibly. **Never conflated with validated.**
Pentera, BreachLock's AI mode, Horizon3, and every "agentic AEV" entrant cannot ship this triad. They have no credentialed human on the other side of the keyboard — every one of their findings is effectively `SUSPECTED`, even when their marketing calls them "validated". That's the DeepTalent wedge, made visible on every finding.
PTRG. Fully autonomous where it makes sense. Human-enriched where it matters.
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Additional reporting features shipping with this release
DeepCore ships alongside two report-side upgrades that land in every PTRG bundle:
DeepGrid — 6×6 cyber-resilience posture heatmap
Every PTRG engagement now includes an auto-computed DeepGrid — a 6×6 posture heatmap built on **NIST CSF 2.0** (Feb 2024 update, so we're one framework version ahead of most "posture matrix" tools shipping today). Every finding is auto-classified into one of 36 cells:
- Functions (6): Govern · Identify · Protect · Detect · Respond · Recover
- Asset classes (6): Devices · Apps · Networks · Data · Users · Hardware / OT (our differentiator — firmware, ICS, IoT, medical, automotive get their own row rather than being lumped into "Devices" the way legacy matrix tools do it)
- Maturity scoring: L1 Ad-hoc → L5 Optimizing. Each cell earns its rating from the actual finding weight in that cell — not from a vendor's self-assessment.
Output on every engagement:
- `coverage %` — % of cells at L4 (Measured) or L5 (Optimizing)
- `gap count` — # of cells at L1 or L2 that need attention now
- Interactive heatmap page in the sample-report / client portal
- Rendered heatmap page in the PDF + DOCX + Beamer slide deck
Think of it as one glance to answer "where is this program exposed?" — computed from real findings, not marketing self-scoring.
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NIST 800-53 (rev 5) mappings on every finding
Every finding in every PTRG report — regardless of whether it's Validated or Suspected — now stamps **NIST SP 800-53 rev 5 control IDs** directly on the finding page. Alongside the CVSS v4 + DREAD + MITRE ATT&CK + STRIDE stamps we've always shipped.
For an IDOR finding you'll see the row: `AC-3 · AC-4 · AC-6` (Access Enforcement · Information Flow Enforcement · Least Privilege). For a hardcoded-credential finding: `IA-5 · SC-28` (Authenticator Management · Data at Rest). Auditors get exactly the control language they need — per finding, not per report.
Coming next release: **SP 800-171 rev 3** and **ISO 27001:2022** control-family stamps on the same rows.
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What we mean by "PTRG"
Throughout this post, PTRG refers to the full, multi-faceted Be The Deeper PTaaS product — six faces working as one: DeepCore (autonomous orchestrator), DeepScope, DeepStrike, DeepTalent, DeepTraining, and PTRG the reporting engine itself. Not just the report generator.
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Try DeepCore in your data center this afternoon
If you're evaluating "internal autonomous pentest" — Pentera, BreachLock, or a new *Agentic AEV* pitch that just landed in your inbox — spend 15 minutes with DeepCore first.
1. Free sandbox (no credit card, no NDA, no form gate): [ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/deepscope/sandbox](https://ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/deepscope/sandbox) — spins in ~5 seconds.
2. Enroll a real DeepCore agent for your network: [ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/deepcore](https://ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/deepcore) — you'll walk away with a `docker compose up -d` command and a two-party-auth checklist.
3.OR, start with the report you'd walk out of an engagement with: [ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/sample-report](https://ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/sample-report).
If you've read this far and you'd like a 20-minute call with a human, we're at [talent@dnsystemsllc.com]
(mailto:talent@dnsystemsllc.com) — reply with your subnet size and we'll match a credentialed operator to your surface before the call.
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**⏳ 59 days left in Era 1 · lock the Year-1 stack before Aug 31, 2026**
We opened PTRG in Era 1 — the founding-customer window.
It closes **August 31, 2026**.
Sixty-day heads-up: **59 days left** from the day this post ships.
Sign up for annual subscriptions during Era 1 and here's what you lock in:
- Squadron + Command tier's DeepScope + DeepStrike bundle stays FREE for the life of your subscription.** Not year one only — every renewal, forever, as long as your Option A stays continuous. Never-renews-back-up.
- **Extra 25% off Year 1** with code **`CONF25%-JUN26`** at checkout. Stacks on the Era-1 base pricing.
- **Locked pricing schedule** — no surprise Era-2 rate hikes on your account when the founding-customer window closes.
- **Founder access** — every Era-1 account gets a direct line to me - for the first 12 months of the subscription. Real inbox, real answers, not a queue.
If you were planning to evaluate PTRG "next quarter" — the math changes if you sign inside the window. Full price-lock breakdown lives on the [pricing FAQ](https://ptrg.dnsystemsllc.com/pricing#era1-faq).
No Era-2 rush. Just an honest heads-up: 59 days left, one code, one clock.
— DNSystems LLC
PTRG. For Pentesters, By Pentesters.
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