Miami cybersecurity startup Penti.ai has officially relaunched from its previous identity as Securily, positioning itself as an AI-powered ethical hacking platform designed to secure the rapidly expanding world of AI-generated and vibe-coded software. The pivot represents more than a name change — it reflects a fundamental shift in how the company approaches cybersecurity in an era of accelerated software development where AI tools can generate functional code in hours but may introduce vulnerabilities that traditional testing methods fail to catch.
Founder and CEO Orit Benzaquen Cohen explained that the company spent years combining manual ethical hacking with automated tools under the Securily brand, recording every penetration test along the way. That accumulated data became the training foundation for Penti’s new product: an agentic AI ethical hacker that continuously scans systems for vulnerabilities and helps engineering teams reproduce and fix security issues. “There are thousands of agents that run at the same time,” Benzaquen Cohen told Refresh Miami. “In the past, we used to do a manual penetration test, and that’s a snapshot in time of today’s posture. But what happens next week when your team ships something new to production?”
The timing aligns with a growing concern across the industry. As AI coding tools enable founders to launch products faster than ever, many may not fully understand the vulnerabilities hidden beneath the surface of AI-generated code. “It’s great that people are enabled with this tool that makes you think that anything you can think of, you can create,” Benzaquen Cohen said. “Actually, you can. The question is, is it sustainable? Is it built with the right basis?” She added that many founders using AI coding tools simply do not know what they do not know about security gaps in generated software.
The five-person team, including co-founder and CTO Cariel Cohen, has not raised outside funding yet, but Benzaquen Cohen said major household-name brands have started approaching the company directly. “We’re starting to get household name brands coming through the door, not even us reaching out,” she said. She was also invited by Google to Washington, D.C., earlier this month to discuss AI regulation with policymakers, including staffers from the offices of former Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ashley Moody.
Benzaquen Cohen raised concerns about fragmented state-by-state AI rules potentially slowing startups trying to scale nationally. Still, she sees South Florida as an emerging center for AI innovation and believes the region is producing companies capable of competing nationally. “From my perspective, we’re the new Silicon Valley,” she said. She also pushed back against fears that AI will replace workers, viewing it instead as a technological shift that will reshape jobs. The rebrand positions Penti at the intersection of two of Miami’s fastest-growing sectors — cybersecurity and artificial intelligence — both of which have attracted significant venture investment and talent to the region.
