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Agentic campaigns don't wait for you.
Six. Point. One. Seconds. That's the elapsed time between campaign launch and full compromise in our latest controlled test run. No human attacker in the loop. No pause for tooling. No waiting on a C2 callback that takes a coffee break.
This is what agentic offense looks like in the wild — an AI-orchestrated campaign that recons, hypothesizes, pivots, and escalates faster than a SOC analyst can read a Slack alert. The kill chain isn't a flowchart anymore. It's a loop. A tight, adaptive, machine-speed loop.
Your mean time to detect? Your playbook dwell time? Your "we'll review the logs tomorrow"? All of it was already too late before your morning standup started.
The session was fully agentic — objective in, root out. The agent handled recon, prioritized attack vectors, selected and staged payloads, managed lateral movement hypotheses, and closed the loop on escalation. No hands. No hesitation. No rate limiting on audacity.
And before someone in a vendor booth says "but our AI-powered behavioral detection—" — yes. We see you. Which is exactly why we're issuing this challenge.
THE RING.
If you're a vendor — EDR, NDR, SIEM, XDR, MXDR, AI-powered-whatever — and you genuinely believe your stack can stop a fully agentic campaign before it closes the kill chain, come prove it.
Not in a webinar. Not in a slide deck. Not with a logo on a Magic Quadrant.
In the HACKERverse® ring. Against a live agentic campaign. On the clock.
- Rule 01: Bring your stack however you want it — fresh install, fully tuned, policies cranked, the works. We want your best, not your default.
- Rule 02: You pick the target environment — OS, patch level, network topology, all of it. Your house, your rules. We just bring the agent.
- Rule 03: You get a full briefing on the campaign type, tactics, and general technique family 72 hours before the clock starts. Study up. Seriously.
- Rule 04: You may have up to three humans watching live, with read-only access to your own console. Coaches in the stands. We don't mind the crowd.
- Rule 05: If something breaks environmentally — network blip, infra hiccup, act of cloud — we pause the clock, reset, and go again. No penalty. Machines get stage fright too.
- Rule 06: Results are published — but you get a full week to review, respond, and add a vendor statement of unlimited length. We run it unedited, right next to the data.
- Rule 07: Credit where it's due. If your stack raises an alert, trips a wire, or forces the agent to change course at any point — we log it, timestamp it, and publish it. A near-miss is still a data point. We don't hide the good stuff.
- Rule 08: Re-runs are unlimited. Patch, tune, rebuild from scratch, come back tomorrow — the ring is always open. Run it until you're happy with the number. Every run gets published, and the improvement arc is part of the story.
Participation Trophy
Every vendor who steps into the ring gets a free verified listing on proofregister.com — the only registry where security claims are actually tested, timestamped, and on record. Show up. Get listed. Let the community decide what the data means.
proofregister.com exists because the industry has been running on vendor-authored benchmarks long enough. Time to change that.
Not ready for the public ring? No shame in that. We offer a fully private run — same agent, same clock, same rules — behind closed doors. No results published. No public record. Just you, your stack, and the truth.
Think of it as a mirror session — a chance to see exactly what an agentic campaign sees when it looks at you, before anyone else does. Fix what you find. Come back to the public ring when you're ready. Or don't. We won't tell.
- NDA-covered: Results stay between you and us. Full stop.
- No public listing: Private runs don't appear on proofregister.com — unless you decide you want them to.
- Debrief included: Full kill chain replay walkthrough. You get to ask questions. We answer honestly.
- Remediation window: Run it again after you've patched. See if the number changes.
⚠ Private arena results cannot be used in marketing materials. You can't claim you passed a test you ran in secret. That's not how proof works.
is faster than 6.1?
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