Continuous Attack Surface Validation

Security
intelligence
that never sleeps.

Continuous attack-surface validation across perimeter, infrastructure and application. Velgard closes the gap between yesterday's pentest and tomorrow's breach.

EU · European compliance posture
Calibrated for EU regulatory frameworks

Passed yesterday.
Exposed today.
Breached tomorrow.

Every penetration test is an artefact of the day it was run. Your environment never stops moving — new deploys, new cloud resources, new vendors, new identities. The certification you passed last quarter has nothing to say about the attack surface you have now. That blind window between assessments is exactly where breaches happen.

CADENCE · OVER 12 MONTHS
JANMARMAYJULSEPNOV
OUTCOME
Manual pentest EXTERNAL FIRM · SCHEDULED · 1–2 × / YEAR
10 monthsblind in between
Automated scanning SCHEDULED · WEEKLY · UNVERIFIED
96% noisefindings without proof
Velgard CONTINUOUS INTELLIGENCE · PROOF-GRADE
Always-onmatched cadence
01 · TIME
10mo

The time gap

Annual pentests certify what your environment looked like weeks ago. By the time the report ships, you've shipped 47 deploys — each one a potential new entry point.

02 · PROOF
96%

The proof gap

Of vulnerabilities flagged by scanners that are never exploited. You triage 10,000 maybes to find the three that chain into real impact. Lists are not security.

03 · CHAIN
3layers

The chain gap

Real breaches traverse perimeter, infrastructure and application. Tools that test each layer in isolation can't see the kill-chain that an adversary will actually walk.

One platform.
Three security layers.
EU regulation as the spine.

Velgard is a continuous attack-surface validation platform built for the European regulatory environment. Three coordinated security layers — Perimeter, Infrastructure and Application — share a single knowledge graph and produce proof-grade findings. The regulatory frameworks aren't a wrapper; they are the spine the architecture is built around.

// THE THREE LAYERS
LAYER 01 · PERIMETER · EXTERNAL
ASN · DNS
Perimeter Layer · 4 sub-agents

External attack surface

Maps your public footprint the way an attacker does — domains, shadow assets, exposed services, supply-chain ingress — then probes each entry with adversarial precision.

  • .01ReconAsset & DNS enumeration
  • .02ExposureServices, certs & misconfig
  • .03OSINTCredential & identity leakage
  • .04BreachInitial-access exploit chains
LAYER 02 · INFRASTRUCTURE · INTERNAL
Infrastructure Layer · 4 sub-agents

Internal lateral movement

Operates inside the boundary — discovering trust paths, harvesting credentials, escalating privilege, and modeling lateral routes to your crown-jewel systems.

  • .01IdentityAD & cloud identity graph
  • .02LateralTrust-path traversal
  • .03EscalatePrivilege escalation chains
  • .04ImpactCrown-jewel reachability
LAYER 03 · APPLICATION · HYBRID
GET /api/v2/users?id= POST /auth/login {"{"}…{"}"} GET /admin/console ► payload: ../../etc/passwd 200 OK · 412ms
Application Layer · 4 sub-agents

App-layer exploitation

Reasons about business logic the way a human pentester does — chaining auth flaws, broken access control, IDORs and injection into proof-grade exploit paths.

  • .01AuthSession, JWT & SSO abuse
  • .02LogicBusiness-flow & access control
  • .03InjectInjection, SSRF & deserialize
  • .04ChainStateful exploit chaining
// THE REGULATORY SPINE · ARCHITECTURAL CORNERSTONE
12+
EU frameworks aligned · NIS2, DORA, GDPR, AI Act, CRA, ISO 27001/42001
$10.5T
Annual global cybercrime cost · 2026 est.
20M / 4%
Max GDPR penalty per breach · of global revenue
  1. NIS2
    Network & Information Security 2 Continuous risk-management measures, 24h major-incident notice, supply-chain & technical-testing obligations — all evidenced by the validation stream itself.
    ART. 21 · 23
  2. DORA
    Digital Operational Resilience Act Threat-led penetration testing (TLPT) and ICT-incident reporting for financial entities — produced as artefacts, not narrative.
    ART. 19 · 24–27
  3. GDPR
    General Data Protection Regulation Article 32 demands “appropriate technical measures” and regular testing of their effectiveness. Velgard tests them, continuously.
    ART. 32 · 33
  4. AI ACT
    EU Artificial Intelligence Act Robustness, accuracy and cybersecurity obligations for high-risk AI systems — with continuous testing of resilience against adversarial input baked into Article 15.
    ART. 15 · ANNEX IV
  5. CRA
    Cyber Resilience Act Essential cybersecurity requirements and structured vulnerability handling for products with digital elements — from first ship to end of support.
    ANNEX I · ART. 11
  6. ISO 27001
    ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A.8.8 vulnerability management and A.8.29 secure-testing controls, mapped 1:1 to Velgard outputs for ISMS auditors.
    A.8.8 · A.8.29
  7. ISO 42001
    ISO/IEC 42001:2023 · AI Management The first international management-system standard for AI. Velgard's adversarial testing of AI components plugs directly into A.6 (lifecycle) and A.8 (data) controls.
    A.6 · A.8
// COMMITMENT ISO/IEC 42001:2023 CERTIFICATION IN PROGRESS

Velgard is building toward ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification — the international standard for responsible AI management. Our AI governance framework is designed from the ground up to meet its requirements: human expert oversight, transparent decision-making, bias controls, and full AI lifecycle accountability.

Scan. Validate. Report.
Continuously.

Scanning, validation and reporting fused into one autonomous loop. Velgard doesn't just list possibilities — it reaches them, exploits them safely and ranks them by what they'd actually cost you. Then it starts again.

  1. 01 //
    Discover
    Agents enumerate every asset, identity and code path — including the ones you forgot about.
    12s cycle
  2. 02 //
    Probe
    Adversarial heuristics map weakness candidates against current threat intelligence.
    ~4 min
  3. 03 //
    Exploit
    Confirmed weaknesses are chained into safe, sandboxed exploitation — never on production data.
    contained
  4. 04 //
    Validate
    Each finding carries a proof, an impact rating and a regression test for the fix.
    proof-grade
  5. 05 //
    Report & restart
    Tickets ship into Jira/Linear with remediation paths. The loop never stops.
    always-on
// THE LOOP IN ACTION
VEL-CON · 02 // VALIDATION STREAM
LIVE
Continuous
Validation across the estate
Proof-grade
Findings shipped with evidence
Real-time
Detection to validated proof
Signal only
No noise, no false alarms

Field notes.
From the research lab.

Short, technical writing from Velgard's research and engineering teams — vulnerability analysis, regulatory deep-dives, and what we're learning from running offensive intelligence inside European enterprises.

Senior practitioners.
Across cyber and industry.

Velgard is led by senior practitioners from product, business, architecture and offensive research — with deep tenure outside conventional cybersecurity too: industrial control, energy, manufacturing and embedded systems. We've shipped what we sell, and broken it from the inside.

5PROFESSIONALS
// COMPOSITION

A small, senior team. Every member brings 10+ years in their domain — built across product cycles, breach response and architectural decisions that shipped.

.01

Product & business development

10+ YRS
.02

Cybersecurity

10+ YRS
.03

Enterprise architecture

10+ YRS
.04

Software development

10+ YRS

Quiet power.
Always on.

See Velgard inside your environment in a 30-minute briefing. We'll show you what your real attack surface looks like — through an attacker's eyes.

Book a briefing.

A senior practitioner from Velgard will walk you through the platform, the deployment, and how it maps to your specific regulatory posture. No agent install, read-only access.

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CONTACT US velgard@velgard.eu
HEADQUARTERS Košice, Slovakia