Chris Thompson made a career breaking into banks, nuclear power plants, and defense contractors—and getting paid to do it. Now, he recognizes that red team penetration testing is evolving dramatically.
This premise is the basis of RemoteThreat, an integrated offensive cyber operations platform he and Shawn Jones, co-founder and CTO, founded in 2025. The startup just emerged from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding and aims to help organizations stay ahead of attackers who are picking up the pace, largely due to artificial intelligence (AI).
Rather than replacing humans, the platform uses AI to assist teams in enterprises, as well as government organizations, during mission objectives while testing how their defenses will hold up against a variety of threats.
Frontier AI models are advancing so rapidly that traditional penetration testing won't exist in two years as it stands today, explains Thompson, RemoteThreat CEO and co-founder.