RemoteThreat emerged from stealth Tuesday with $7 million in pre-seed funding and a new platform designed to help enterprise red teams, government mission teams and defense partners conduct advanced offensive cyber operations.
The Fulton, Maryland-based company said its O/C/O Platform combines offensive security capabilities, operational infrastructure and governed artificial intelligence in a single environment. The platform is aimed at experienced operators seeking to emulate increasingly sophisticated adversaries and conduct complex cyber operations faster and at greater scale.
RemoteThreat was founded by offensive security veterans Chris Thompson, who serves as CEO, and Shawn Jones, the company’s CTO. Its team includes former operators, researchers and engineers from IBM X-Force Adversary Services, Mandiant, SpecterOps, Dreadnode, Bugcrowd and Microsoft, along with defense contractors and government agencies.
The company is positioning the platform around a growing security problem: AI can increase the speed and scale of cyber operations, while human-led offensive teams still spend significant time assembling tools, building integrations and managing infrastructure.
“Our offensive cyber capabilities must outpace the adversary,” Thompson said, arguing that expert operators need ways to combine machine speed with human control.
The O/C/O Platform integrates eight systems covering mission planning, command-and-control infrastructure, implants, initial-access frameworks, advanced capabilities, obfuscation pipelines, analysis engines and AI-assisted operations. RemoteThreat said individual capabilities can also be integrated into partner products rather than used exclusively within its platform.
RemoteThreat is also moving into the national security market. The company has joined U.S. Special Operations Command’s Special Operations Forces Rapid Acquisition Consortium for Emerging Requirements, or SOF RACER, as the federal government considers a larger role for vetted private companies in cyber operations against foreign adversaries.
The company has established a partnership with The Nakasone Group, which will serve as a strategic adviser. The firm was founded by retired Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, former director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command.
RemoteThreat is also working with defense technology company Talon Defense to integrate complementary capabilities into existing operational platforms.
The $7 million pre-seed round was led by Osage University Partners and DataTribe. RemoteThreat said the funding will be used to accelerate deployment of the O/C/O Platform and develop additional capabilities.
The launch comes as security researchers and AI developers wrestle with the implications of increasingly capable AI models for offensive security. RemoteThreat’s position is that automated penetration-testing tools alone will not be sufficient as AI-enabled adversaries become more sophisticated.
“Internal red teams are being asked to model adversaries whose capabilities change faster than the tools used to emulate them,” Jones said.
RemoteThreat said the O/C/O Platform is available now to qualified enterprise customers, U.S. government organizations and vetted defense industry customers.
