Driving the Future of Cybersecurity: Highlights from the Horizon3 Global Partner Summit

Tom Sheehan (Hurricane Labs Director of Cybersecurity Consulting and Compliance) attended the inaugural Horizon3 Global Partner summit earlier this month.  This event brought together the brightest minds and boldest innovators in cybersecurity for a day of education, collaboration, and vision. Held in Frisco Texas, the event spotlighted Horizon3.ai’s evolving impact on security, showcasing a community committed to disrupting the status quo and redefining what’s possible in offensive cybersecurity.

Welcome & Vision

Kicking off with a powerful message of Celebrate. Collaborate. Educate., the morning set the tone for a future-forward agenda. Horizon3.ai reinforced its core commitment to partner-first principles: enable and empower, invest in community, and build trust by example.

Evolving the Security Landscape

A central theme of the day was the Journey to Autonomous Security—a transformation from traditional reactive methods to proactive, offense-informed defense strategies. Key innovations like NodeZero, Horizon3’s autonomous pentesting platform, were positioned as catalysts in this shift.

Participants saw firsthand how Horizon3.ai:

1. Empowers IT and security teams to Find, Fix, and Verify vulnerabilities at scale
2. Uses real-time, AI powered multi-stage attacks that chain together exploits, exposed services, and misconfigurations. and detect exploits including misconfigurations.
3. Incorporates adversary behavior modeling, honeytokens, and red-team-like capabilities to enhance detection and response 

Product Evolution

The NodeZero product evolution unveiled features to simplify remediation, improve MTTR (Mean Time to Remediation), and align security metrics with board-level outcomes.

These capabilities include:

1. Intuitive remediation workflows
2. Enhanced tripwire deployment for precision threat detection
3. Executive-ready insights for demonstrating ROI
4. N-day rapid response attacks
5. NodeZero Insights – organization-wide visibility into your security posture

From War Room to Board Room

The presentations emphasized how offense drives defense and how integrating pentesting into regular workflows can radically improve visibility and readiness. Organizations using NodeZero move from annual/bi-annual testing to weekly+ assessments, dramatically reducing risk exposure.

Data points we found interesting included:

1. 81x faster and 65% cheaper than traditional consulting engagements

2. DOGE approves the NSA utilizing NodeZero in the DOD as it’s saving hundreds of thousands of man hours and resources

3. Seamless hybrid cloud testing across SaaS, on-prem, and cloud infrastructure

4. Real-world case studies illustrating measurable outcomes in threat detection, risk reduction, and executive reporting

5. Massive issue with misconfiguration of EDR tools across 60,000 pentestsRecognizing ExcellenceThe day closed by celebrating standout partners across the globe, honoring those who exemplified innovation, impact, and growth.Hurricane Labs and Horizon3At Hurricane Labs, our Autonomous Penetration Testing Service leverages the power of Horizon3’s cutting-edge platform to deliver more than just traditional penetration testing. For our Splunk customers, we’re able to take it a step further by focusing on use case validation—ensuring your security controls are not only robust but also tailored to your unique environment. Our service provides actionable insights to strengthen your defenses and enhance threat detection.

    

   Key Benefits of our Nimbus H3 Service:
   

   • Pinpoint vulnerabilities and actual threat vectors in your environment

   • Test your existing security tools

   • Develop and validate use cases for precise threat detection

   • Ensure proper logging for comprehensive visibility

   • Strengthen your security posture with tailored, actionable insights

   • Support compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR

   • Expert guidance from Hurricane Labs’ subject matter experts