Autonomous Application and API Security Platform

Ghost Security, founded in 2022 in Austin, Texas, provides an automated application security platform designed to continuously identify and remediate risks across modern cloud environments. The company uses agentic AI techniques to detect misconfigurations, authentication flaws, token misuse, third-party vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps without requiring manual testing or specialized infrastructure.

The platform combines context-aware scanning with dynamic prioritization, integrating traffic proxies, request manipulation, and parameter fuzzing into a unified workflow. This allows the system to surface complex issues traditionally discovered through manual penetration testing while simultaneously guiding remediation. Ghost Security also offers collaborative features such as Co-Op Mode, enabling distributed teams to jointly conduct vulnerability exploitation sessions and streamline knowledge transfer.

Targeting the acute talent shortage in application security, the company aims to automate up to 80% of routine analyst tasks. Its architecture emphasizes minimal configuration overhead and reduced resource consumption compared to traditional application testing tools, making it suitable for organizations seeking scalable, AI-driven security automation. Ghost Security’s approach provides continuous asset-level visibility and secure SDLC support for teams responsible for protecting distributed, API-centric applications.

Ghost Security exited stealth in August 2022 by announcing that it had secured $15 million in combined funds from 468 Capital, DNX Ventures, and Munich Re Ventures.