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type: Capability Set
title: Capabilities — Mark Padginton
description: Cybersecurity (professional services, offensive security, AI testing), applied AI and agentic automation, plus the commercial motion of enterprise and government buying.
resource: https://padginton.com/capabilities
tags: [cybersecurity, offensive-security, ai-testing, applied-ai, procurement, tenders]
status: draft
generated: { by: agent:claude-opus-5, at: 2026-09-04T00:00:00Z }
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# Capabilities

## Technology domains

**Cybersecurity** — security tooling, posture and risk conversations with architects, security teams
and CISOs, framed in terms the business can act on.

- Professional services — assessment, implementation and uplift delivered by specialists
- Offensive security — penetration testing and red team engagements that evidence real exposure
- AI testing — adversarial testing of AI systems, models and the agents wired into them

**Emerging AI driven technologies** — applied AI and agentic automation: where it creates real
leverage, where it introduces new exposure, and how to evaluate the difference.

- Applied AI — finding the use cases that survive contact with a real operating budget
- Agentic automation — autonomous agents delegating work across systems, and the controls that keep it governable
- Application development — the tooling and integrations that turn a capability into something people use

## Commercial motion

New business development · strategic account growth · multiyear contracts · EOI responses ·
tender processes · partner-led opportunities.

## Sectors

Finance, government and enterprise.

## See also

- [Person: Mark Padginton](person.md)
- [Development](development.md)