## **Release Notes: May 2025**


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Explore What’s New from Cobalt This Month

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## **Industry & Company Size Fields**

You can now set your organization’s industry and company size within the org settings.

This provides the team with additional context to better understand your organization and its needs.

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May 2025

How to get started with Cobalt

Getting Started

Assets are what we pentest

Asset Types

Create an Asset

Risk Advisories

Assets

Pentests

Overview

Asset Details

Pentest Details

Scope & Test Period

Preparation

Create a Pentest

Launch a Saved Autonomous Pentest

Review a Closed Autonomous Pentest Report

Create an Autonomous Pentest

Pentest Process

Pentest States

Coverage Checklist

Pentest Expectations

Complete an In-House Pentest (For Pentesters)

Set Up an In-House Pentest

In House Pentests

Remediate Findings

Finding States

Severity Levels

Findings

Contents of a Pentest Report

Customize Your Report

Co-branded Reports

Reports

Engagements Overview

Digital Risk Assessment

Secure Code Review

Engagements

Insights

Planning

Cobalt Methodologies Overview

Web Methodologies

Autonomous Web Methodologies

API Methodologies

External Network Methodologies

Internal Network Methodologies

Mobile Methodologies

Cloud Configuration Review Methodologies

Cloud Pentest Methodology

Desktop Methodologies

AI/LLM Methodologies

Digital Risk Assessment Methodology

Secure Code Review Methodologies

Methodologies

Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM)

Attack Surface

DAST Scanner Overview

Best Practices

Integrations

Partial Scans: Reduced Scope

Scans

Sequence recorder

Targets

Target Authentication

Extra Hosts

Blackout Period

DAST Scanner

Account Overview

Account Settings

Password Best Practices

Sign In to Cobalt

Troubleshoot Sign-in Issues

User Account

Collaboration Overview

Collaborate on Pentests

Groups

Manage Pentest Collaborators

User Roles and Permissions

Manage Notifications

Collaboration

Organization Overview

Manage Users

Your Cobalt Contract

Configure SAML SSO

SAML Migration: Update Your Configuration

SCIM Provisioning Setup Guide

Configure Organization Settings

Organization

Cobalt PtaaS Tiers

Cobalt Credits

Track Your Credits

Credits

Cobalt Integrations Overview

Connect your applications

Create Azure DevOps Work Item for Findings

Create GitHub tickets for Findings

Create GitLab tickets for Findings

Send email notifications for Findings from Outlook

Send MS Teams notifications for Findings

Create Jira tickets for Findings

HTTP Connector

Import Assets from Google Sheets

Map Cobalt Pentest Finding Severity to Jira Issue Priority

Modify Jira Issue Summary to contain Pentest Title

How to Guides

Troubleshooting

Integration Builder

Jira Cloud Integration

Jira Data Center Integration

Push Cobalt Findings to Jira

Synchronize Cobalt Severity Levels with Jira

Switching to a New Jira Instance

Troubleshoot Your Jira Integration

Integrate Jira with Cobalt

Slack

Microsoft Teams

Webhooks

DefectDojo

Kenna Security

Vanta

Carried Over Findings

Create Test Finding

Cobalt API Overview

Create a Personal Cobalt API Token

Get an Organization Token

Revoke Your Personal Cobalt API Tokens

Create or Modify an Asset

Import Findings to Google Sheets

Cobalt API

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