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What is Cytix
Cytix is an AI-assisted security review and testing platform that provides continuous assurance across your development lifecycle. It analyses every change ticket to identify potential security risks and performs targeted security testing on those changes, including manual penetration tests carried out by our CREST-accredited team.
In other words, Cytix combines automation and expert validation to give you complete confidence that each release meets your security and compliance standards.
Why Security Committees Should Care
Security and compliance leaders are responsible for ensuring that all changes deployed to production are secure, tested, and compliant. Traditional manual processes and scheduled audits are too slow for modern development. Cytix makes continuous assurance practical by combining AI-driven analysis with human-led testing.
With Cytix, governance and risk teams can:
Verified Assurance
Ensure that every high-risk change is independently validated by CREST-certified security testers.
Continuous Monitoring
Continuously monitor assurance coverage across development activities with real-time visibility.
Audit-Ready Evidence
Produce audit-ready evidence showing that all material changes receive appropriate testing and review.
How Cytix Works
Cytix uses three AI agents to assess every change for security risk:
The Analyst reviews each ticket to determine whether it has security implications.
The Architect produces a concise threat model describing potential weaknesses and relevant controls.
The Engineer coordinates automated tests and, for higher-risk changes, escalates to human-led penetration testing.
Our CREST-accredited testing team then performs manual verification, exploring complex attack paths and business logic flaws that automation alone cannot detect. The results are documented, mapped to controls, and integrated back into your development workflow.
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What This Means for GRC and Oversight Teams
Continuous and Verified Assurance
Cytix provides continuous coverage for all changes. High-risk updates are not only analysed but also manually tested, giving committees concrete assurance that security reviews are thorough and independently verified.
Simplified Compliance and Audit Reporting
Each change produces a complete trail that includes analysis, testing, results, and remediation. Evidence collection becomes effortless, whether for ISO 27001, SOC 2, or internal governance reviews.
Objective and Measurable Security Oversight
Every decision is backed by data and verified by human expertise. Risk classifications are consistent, and all testing results are auditable.
Real-Time Visibility
Committees and GRC teams gain continuous visibility into testing progress, coverage, and outcomes through dashboards and reports, ensuring ongoing oversight without slowing delivery.
Key Takeaways
Continuous assurance is no longer a luxury—it's essential for modern governance and can be achieved without slowing development.
Human-led penetration testing by certified professionals provides assurance that automation alone cannot match.
Audit readiness becomes operational, not ceremonial, when testing is continuous and evidence is automatically captured.
Cytix bridges engineering and governance by combining AI-driven analysis with expert human validation.
The Governance Perspective
Cytix bridges the gap between engineering speed and governance accountability. It operationalises continuous assurance by combining intelligent automation with CREST-certified human testing. Every change is analysed, tested, and documented, giving you defensible evidence that your security controls are working in practice.
Cytix gives you a clear answer to the question: Has this change been securely tested? It also provides the proof to show it.
