Penetration testing behind the login

Most scanners stop at your login page.

Argus Pentest logs in first. A scripted sign-in through the same credential store the QA engine uses hands the scanner real session cookies and a bearer token, and the endpoints discovered on the way seed its API spec — so the scan runs across the authenticated surface, where the findings that matter actually are.

The problem

Why Argus Pentest exists

The login page
Scans stop too early

An unauthenticated scan sees the marketing shell and the sign-in form. The business logic, the roles and the interesting data all sit behind that form.

Once a year
Outside the release loop

A manual penetration test happens on an annual cycle while the application ships every sprint, so most releases go out with no security check at all.

Noise
Findings nobody triages

Raw scanner output arrives as a long list of maybes, and the work of separating the real from the theoretical falls on a team that does not have the hours.

Your credentials
SaaS is a non-starter

Authenticated scanning means handing a third party working logins to an internal system — which a regulated organisation cannot do.

What it does

Built to do the job, end to end

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Authenticated by default

A scripted login yields session cookies and a bearer token from the encrypted credential store, so the scanner works the application as a real signed-in user.

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Seeded API spec

Endpoints discovered during login and crawling are assembled into a synthesized API spec, so the scan reaches routes no unauthenticated crawl would ever see.

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Approved targets only

Scans run against an explicit allow-list. A target has to be added deliberately before anything can be pointed at it.

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Replaceable scanner

The engine underneath is Deep Eye, driven only through its CLI contract — so it can be upgraded or swapped without touching the platform around it.

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Triage, not just output

The model generates payloads and triages findings — text in, text out, never vision — and results arrive by severity with HTML and JSON reports.

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Nothing leaves

Self-hosted alongside the other two engines: the credentials, the scan traffic and the reports all stay on your own infrastructure.

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How it works

From input to outcome

1Add the target to the approved allow-list
2A scripted login collects session cookies and a bearer token
3Discovered endpoints seed a synthesized API spec
4The scanner works the authenticated surface with model-generated payloads
5Findings arrive triaged and ranked by severity, as HTML and JSON
Who it's for

Made for the people who use it

Security engineers

Reach the authenticated surface on every release instead of once a year, and spend the time on real findings rather than on getting a scanner logged in.

CISOs & risk officers

Evidence that the application was security-tested before it shipped, produced without sending credentials to a third party.

QA leads

Reuse the credentials and target configuration already set up for regression testing — one platform, one credential store.

Platform teams

Run it inside your own perimeter, with the scanner engine treated as a replaceable dependency.

Why Argus Pentest

What sets it apart

Past the login wall

Authenticated scanning is the differentiator. Anyone can scan a public page; reaching the roles, forms and APIs behind a sign-in is where the findings live.

Shares the QA engine’s plumbing

The credential store, model router and cost ledger are the same ones the regression engine uses — set up once, used by all three engines.

Self-hosted

Working logins to an internal system never leave your infrastructure, which is the only way authenticated scanning is possible in a regulated industry.

Honest about its stage

It is shipped and running, but it has not yet been measured against unauthenticated scanning on the same targets, and per-scan cost accounting is still missing. We would rather say so than imply a number we have not taken.

Argus
AR-gus
Ἄργος Πανόπτης
The name

Where the name comes from

In Greek myth, Argus Panoptes was the giant with a hundred eyes who never slept — the all-seeing watchman. The pentest engine is the half of that watch that looks for the way in: not whether the application works, but whether someone who should not be inside can get there.

Deployment & trust

Yours to control

Argus Pentest only scans what you have explicitly approved: a target must be added to an allow-list before it can be pointed at, and the credentials it authenticates with are yours, held in your own encrypted store. A scanner that cannot log in reports an environment failure rather than a security finding — the same honest-failure rule the QA engine applies, because a false alarm costs a security team more than a missed scan.

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Argus Pentest — topics, use cases & comparisons

One platform, three engines

Argus is one deployment, not three tools.

The QA, AI and pentest engines run on the same runtime and share a browser layer, a model router, an encrypted credential store and a single cost ledger — so models, credentials and deployment are configured once for all three, and whatever any of them finds lands in the same evidence trail.

Backed by Smart Solutions

Built by the company that runs national infrastructure.

Allmaz is the AI product studio of Smart Solutions, which built and operates Azerbaijan's unified public procurement portal — established by presidential decree and delivered as one of the country's first public-private partnerships in digital government.

9,000+companies use Smart Solutions products
15+years of national-scale delivery, since 2006
150+people across the group
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