Method Security is an autonomous cyber systems company founded in 2023 by former Palantir employees Sam Jones, Sean Hacker and Daniel Kelly. Based in the United States, it builds full-spectrum, dual-use cyber resilience products that fuse offensive and defensive capabilities into a single platform. The stated aim is to shift the advantage in cyber conflict from offence to defence, and to serve critical institutions in both government and commercial markets.
The company's technical work spans autonomous cyber operations, AI/ML security, digital twins, attack surface management and data fusion. Its products include Bastion, for continuous asset testing and estate-wide visibility, and Reaper, a software-defined offensive operations tool designed to conduct autonomous attacks with precision against adversaries. Underlying both is a unified security platform that merges diverse data sources into a digital twin - an interconnected map of resources, configurations and exposures - which serves as the basis for autonomous operations.
Method Security's customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, federal government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, spanning defence, federal government, critical infrastructure, national security and enterprise. The company has partnered with OpenAI and has raised significant funding, though the amount is not disclosed. Engineering work covers a range of domains from machine learning and data fusion to offensive and defensive security tooling.
