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Cerberus

500 Global '26

7 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors

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Cerberus is a US company developing an AI agent for offensive security testing. The tool is positioned as an assistant for penetration testers and security teams, and the company states that formal methods are used to constrain the agent's actions so it cannot cause damage to the systems it tests.

Also known as C7 Security · Cerberus · Cerberus Tech, Inc.

Founders & leadership

AAAziz Akhmedkhodjaev
Aziz AkhmedkhodjaevPresident & FounderAziz Akhmedkhodjaev is a software engineer and cybersecurity specialist with background in theoretical computer science and programming languages research. He is CEO and Co-Founder of Cerberus, an AI agent platform for offensive security testing.

Investors · 1

500 Globallisted by 500 GlobalPalo Alto · $150K

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Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Cerberus is the flagship product of C7 Security (also referenced as Cerberus Tech, Inc.), a Central Asian cybersecurity group that combines penetration testing services with research in type theory and programming language design. Cerberus is presented as an IDE and programming language built for ethical hackers, unifying tooling that would otherwise require multiple separate products, and as an AI agent that can be pointed at production systems with what the company calls mathematical safety guarantees.

The product works by having customers define a scope once — in-bounds and out-of-bounds targets, destructive-write rules and lateral movement limits — which becomes a formal specification inside the compiler. A user then gives a natural-language objective; the agent translates it into Cerberus Lang, proves each intended action against the scope specification, and executes only actions the compiler accepts. The company states that code which could violate scope cannot be emitted at all. Security teams observe runs live in a collaborative workspace showing the attack tree, current hypothesis and findings, can pause or take manual control, and can generate executive, technical and regulator-oriented reports containing a proof trace of every executed and every blocked action.

Beyond Cerberus, the broader C7 organization offers security assessment, audit, pentesting and red teaming, secure development services (secure code, design and architecture reviews), consulting, OSINT, cyber and IT law advisory, and training through C7 Academy, including free webinars, workshops and CTF activity in Uzbekistan.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
HeadcountAug 20267

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

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Frequently asked questions

What does Cerberus do?
Cerberus is an AI penetration-testing agent whose actions are constrained by a purpose-built language with formal proofs.
Who founded Cerberus?
Cerberus was founded by Aziz Akhmedkhodjaev.
Who are Cerberus's investors?
Cerberus's investors include 500 Global.