REMOTETHREAT is an offensive cyber operations startup that aims to push red teaming beyond conventional methods by simulating attackers’ increasingly advanced capabilities. Founded in 2025 by Chris Thompson and Shawn Jones, the venture emerged from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding and is positioned to help organisations stay ahead of rapid advances in AI-powered threat activity.
The platform is designed to assist both enterprise and government teams, using AI to support human red team operators rather than replace them, and to test how well defenses hold up against a spectrum of evolving threats.
Thompson argues that frontier AI models will reshape penetration testing within the next couple of years, and that traditional approaches will no longer suffice. RemoteThreat focuses on unique tooling that can mimic real nation-state-style adversaries, including capabilities to bypass Tier 1 endpoint detection and response (EDR) and other security controls.
The aim is not to automate every process, but to enable faster, scalable testing that challenges assumptions about network protection, internal reach, and compensating controls. The article notes that organisations will increasingly demand platforms they can build on themselves, so they can test against models that adversaries might deploy in the near future. Thompson stresses the need to design defenses that provoke attackers to make detectable “noise” while ensuring controlled, practical responses.