Cobalt Strike is featured in IT Security Guru’s overview of the best red teaming tools for 2026, where the article notes it remains a widely used commercial solution that continues to shape professional red team engagements with integrated workflows and mature capabilities.
Originally published in IT Security Guru.
Excerpt: “Cobalt Strike is one of the most widely used red teaming tools in cybersecurity today. As one engineer noted, ‘It was the product that changed the industry’ as its insights spurred the development of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Now, nearly a decade and a half later, it continues to be the professional’s choice and is estimated to be in use by 60% of red teamers out there.”