Scantist AppDefender and PAIStrike

Scantist is a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, per its About page; the pages fetched do not state a founding year. It offers an AI-powered security platform for software teams that covers code scanning, autonomous penetration testing and AI runtime protection.

AppDefender unifies SAST, SCA and infrastructure-as-code scanning in one pipeline. PAIStrike is an agentic pentesting product that discovers, validates and exploits vulnerabilities autonomously, and AIDefender guards AI applications against jailbreaks, prompt injection and data exfiltration. The site cites 300+ security teams as users.

• AppDefender: unified SAST, SCA and infrastructure-as-code scanning.
• PAIStrike: agentic penetration testing that finds, validates and exploits vulnerabilities.
• AIDefender: runtime protection against jailbreaks, prompt injection and data exfiltration.
• DevSecOps workflow integration for pipelines.
• Documentation for AppDefender at docs.scantist.io.

A Vietnamese bank or e-commerce firm can run autonomous pentests before major releases. A software house can scan client code and dependencies in CI, and test chatbots for prompt injection.

• SAST, SCA and IaC scanning in a single pipeline instead of separate tools.
• Autonomous pentesting validates and exploits findings, reducing false positives.
• ISO/IEC 27001, SG Cyber Safe and SOC badges shown on the site.
• PAIStrike is purchasable through AWS Marketplace (July 2026).

Attackers are adopting agentic AI, so defenders look to autonomous pentesting and AI application protection. A Singapore vendor is close to Vietnamese buyers that follow Singapore security baselines such as Cyber Essentials.

Singapore-based. Blog items: Jan 2026 PAIStrike reached L3 capability on stateful attacks; Jul 2026 PAIStrike listed on AWS Marketplace. Co-founder and COO Charles Huang is named on the blog.