In 2025, Plainsea’s progress began to show up in signals the market cares about. The company increased its visibility in the places where security vendors are tested in direct conversations with practitioners and buyers, while also building the kind of external credibility that enterprise and MSSP audiences expect: third-party recognition, consistent executive thought leadership, measurable team growth, new customer wins, and formal security and quality certifications.
“The market is brutal in a good way,” said Boris Goncharov, CSO. “It can tell in five minutes who’s selling and who’s building. The vendors that win are the ones who understand the job at ground level and can prove it in the workflow. Plainsea is built for that kind of scrutiny.”
Market Presence Where the Industry Pressure-tests Reality
Plainsea’s market presence strengthened across the year through sustained engagement at leading industry events, including Infosecurity Europe, Black Hat USA, International Cyber Expo, and XChange NexGen. These forums were less about announcements and more about pressure-testing a clear operational view of where penetration testing is going. The direction is increasingly defined by continuous validation – treating testing as a living process that keeps pace with changing environments – rather than periodic exercises that produce static reports and longer exposure windows. The visibility gains from these events translated into stronger awareness among security professionals, partners, and organizations evaluating how to modernize testing programs.
Executive Thought Leadership, Grounded in Practice
That same practical stance carried into Plainsea’s growing thought leadership footprint in the United States. Over the year, CEO Marko Simeonov was invited for interviews and features with Brilliance Magazine, Security Boulevard, Authority Magazine, The Last Watchdog, and Help Net Security. Across those conversations, he returned to a consistent set of themes that resonate with modern security teams: how to reduce the time between vulnerability discovery and remediation; how to use automation to remove repetitive work without diluting the rigor of testing; how penetration testing can be structured so it supports continuous risk management rather than episodic compliance deadlines; and how organizations can scale security output without scaling headcount at the same rate.
“Security leaders are converging on the same scorecard: shorter exposure windows, audit readiness that holds between formal assessments, and security spend you can justify with evidence. Plainsea is built around that scorecard,” Simeonov said.
Third-party Recognition in Central and Eastern Europe
Independent validation also arrived from the region where Plainsea is building long-term leverage. In The Recursive’s first report mapping cybersecurity and defense innovation across Central and Eastern Europe, Plainsea was highlighted among the companies shaping the future of cybersecurity in the region. The company was also the only one featured through a full-length interview with the CEO, an uncommon level of editorial attention that reflected both the relevance of the product category Plainsea operates in and the credibility of its leadership perspective.
Commercial Progress and the Capacity to Execute
Commercially, Plainsea secured a solid base of early adopters that helped validate the platform in real operating environments. In parallel, the team expanded by 50% during the year, strengthening capacity where it matters most for scaling: business development, delivery readiness, and the ability to support partners and customers with shorter response cycles and clearer execution.
Assurance Milestones and the 2026 Direction
The most concrete signal of operational maturity came through certification milestones that remove friction for enterprise procurement and partner onboarding. Plainsea achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certifications, formalizing its commitment to information security governance and quality management. The company expects to complete its SOC2 certification process over the next six weeks, adding an internationally recognized framework for controls around data security and risk management.
Together, these milestones serve a practical purpose: they provide audit-ready assurance, strengthen trust with MSSP partners and enterprise customers, and position Plainsea to accelerate customer acquisition and partnerships heading into 2026 – where the next phase of the platform will focus on agentic AI, including Plainsea’s own autonomous AI agents designed to execute human-level tests at machine speed. The goal is straightforward: enable lean security teams to run real-world attack paths continuously, even without deep offensive expertise, and shorten the distance between “known exposure” and “verified closure.”