Hadrian’s mission is to automate American manufacturing, with an initial focus on high-precision machining for the aerospace and defense industries. The company aims to address the limited capacity of the existing supply chain for precision metal components by building highly automated, software-driven factories. Hadrian’s primary goal is to accelerate the pace of American manufacturing by delivering parts faster and more efficiently.
The company’s objective is to construct vertically integrated factories that leverage software and automation to produce complex components with significantly reduced lead times. By doing so, Hadrian intends to enhance the production of critical hardware for rockets, satellites, and jets. The company has established a reputation as a key innovator in the defense technology sector, attracting significant investment and experiencing rapid growth. Its market position is further solidified by its ability to secure long-term production contracts with major companies in the aerospace and defense sectors.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Hadrian provides an AI-powered offensive security platform delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. Its core offering is centered around providing a hacker’s perspective on an organization’s security posture. Hadrian’s platform is designed to be seamless and autonomous, requiring no installation or maintenance from the customer. The company’s key capabilities include continuous and automated event-based scanning of a company’s entire external attack surface, which provides real-time visibility into vulnerabilities. This approach, which combines AI with the insights of ethical hackers, allows Hadrian to identify and validate risks autonomously. Hadrian’s platform integrates with existing security operations stacks, including SIEM/SOAR systems, ticketing platforms, and messaging applications, to streamline workflows. This combination of continuous, autonomous testing and seamless integration gives Hadrian a competitive edge by reducing the time to detect and remediate threats, minimizing false positives, and lowering the costs associated with traditional penetration testing.
Products and Services
Hadrian’s main offering is its agentic AI offensive security platform, which provides continuous adversarial exposure validation. The platform’s services can be broken down into several key areas:
- Continuous Attack Surface Management: Hadrian continuously discovers and maps all of an organization’s internet-facing assets, including unknown or “shadow IT” assets. This service provides a complete and always-updated view of the potential attack surface.
- Automated Penetration Testing: The platform replicates the techniques of human penetration testers to continuously and autonomously test for vulnerabilities across the entire attack surface. This replaces periodic manual testing with 24/7 automated validation.
- Threat Exposure Management: Hadrian helps organizations manage and prioritize the threats they face by providing context-based severity scores for identified risks. This allows security teams to focus on the most critical issues.
- Third-Party Risk Management: The platform can assess the security posture of subsidiaries and third-party vendors by discovering and monitoring their digital assets. It can track over 10,000 SaaS applications and thousands of software packages.
- Cloud Exposure Visibility and Control: Hadrian provides real-time visibility into risks associated with cloud infrastructure.
- DNS Misconfigurations and Exposure: The service identifies and reports on DNS misconfigurations that could be exploited by attackers.
- Infostealer Infections Detection: A newer feature, this service detects where, when, and how infostealer malware infects an organization.
Target Customers
Hadrian’s target customers are primarily businesses and organizations in need of robust cybersecurity measures to protect their digital assets. The company focuses on a Business-to-Business (B2B) model. Key users of Hadrian’s platform within these organizations include Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), IT security teams, Security Operations Center (SOC) teams, and DevSecOps practitioners. Hadrian serves a broad range of industries, with a notable presence in financial services, manufacturing, energy, technology, education, and gaming. The platform is beneficial for companies looking to automate their risk assessments, strengthen their digital security posture, and streamline their remediation processes. Clients of Hadrian include well-known organizations such as Damen Shipyards Group, Crédit Agricole, London Business School, and Lottomatica. These customers benefit from Hadrian’s services by gaining a continuous, real-time understanding of their external security risks, enabling them to proactively fortify their defenses against cyberattacks. The platform’s automation helps to reduce the workload on internal security teams and allows for more efficient scaling of security efforts.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplaces
Hadrian’s offensive security platform is a cloud-based, agentless solution designed for integration into existing security operations stacks. It offers flexible integrations with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR), ticketing systems, and messaging platforms. The platform supports API-based and pre-built integrations with over 200 third-party tools, including Jira and ServiceNow. Hadrian also provides out-of-the-box integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Its technology is built to offer real-time visibility into vulnerabilities across multiple cloud environments.
Hadrian has a presence on the following cloud marketplace:
- AWS Marketplace: Hadrian offers its Autonomous Attack Surface Management solution on the AWS Marketplace. This solution is designed to discover and prioritize external security risks across all of an organization’s known and unknown digital assets.
Hadrian does not have a listed presence on the Google Cloud Marketplace or the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
Key People
- Co-Founder & CEO: Rogier Fischer
- Co-Founder & Chief Hacking Officer: Olivier Beg
- Co-Founder & CBDO: Maurice Clin
- CTO: Prash Somaiya
- General Manager – North America: Matan Shavit
- Chief Operating Officer: Peter Hix
- Head of People: Delano Lobman
- Head of Product: Rutger van Waveren
- Head of Product Marketing: Alex Wells
- Head of Demand Generation: Ayanda Chiwuta
- Head of Customer Success: Sasja Storms
- Head of Sales EMEA: Gil Fromovitch
Key Facts
- Headquarters Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Number of Employees: 51-200.
- Annual Revenue: $3 million in 2023, with a projection to reach $30 million by the end of 2024.
- Parent Company: None.
- Subsidiary Companies: None.
- Publicly Listed: No.
Analyst Recognition
Based on publicly available information, Hadrian is not currently featured in dedicated analyst reports from Gartner, Forrester, IDC, or Everest Group in categories such as Attack Surface Management, Threat Exposure Management, or Automated Penetration Testing.
While customer reviews and ratings for Hadrian are available on Gartner Peer Insights, Hadrian does not appear in Gartner’s formal research reports like the Magic Quadrant or Critical Capabilities for related technology categories. Similarly, there is no mention of Hadrian in the primary research and reports from Forrester, IDC, or Everest Group.
