Tag: penetration-testing
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Compliance teams have gone continuous, but their evidence-gathering hasn’t caught up
The perception that compliance is a once-a-year scramble is out of date, according to a new survey of 201 security and compliance practitioners published by Pentest-Tools.com. The research finds that continuous compliance has effectively already arrived inside most organisations, but the automation needed to support it has not. The study, carried out in July 2026…
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NetSPI, Synack Join Forces on Continuous Security Testing
Merger Pairs Expert Testers, Crowdsourced Researchers and Autonomous Technology. NetSPI and Synack plan to merge into a $200 million offensive security firm combining expert pen testers, nearly 2,000 crowdsourced researchers and autonomous technology to deliver continuous penetration testing across enterprise and federal attack surfaces. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/netspi-synack-join-forces-on-continuous-security-testing-a-32744
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The Harness Advantage in Autonomous Red Teaming: Why Frontier LLMs Alone Fail Offensive Security and How RidgeGen Solves the Alignment Dilemma
An Empirical 8-Model Benchmark on Agent Harness Architecture, Model Over-Refusal, Token Efficiency, and Enterprise Sovereignty in Modern AI-Driven Penetration Testing 1. The Core Thesis: Offensive Capability Is a Function of the Harness, Not the Raw Model In my book on… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/the-harness-advantage-in-autonomous-red-teaming-why-frontier-llms-alone-fail-offensive-security-and-how-ridgegen-solves-the-alignment-dilemma/
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CREST Onboards First Cohort for AI-Enabled Pentesting Accreditation
CREST’s new AI-enabled penetration testing accreditation welcomes its first 10 providers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crest-first-cohort-ai-pentesting/
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Why Is Penetration Testing Important?
Cyberattacks have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years, with rapid advancements in AI technologies reducing the average attack time from days to just minutes. One only needs to look at the recent OpenAI/Hugging Face incident to recognise this. It’s a… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/why-is-penetration-testing-important/
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NIS2 macht Penetrationstests zum Standardinstrument – Ein Schwachstellenscan ersetzt keinen Pentest
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/nis2-penetrationstest-pflichtnachweis-bsig-a-c4eaf776ac1f62365f753f502042729e/
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Bright Security Expands its AI SDLC security Platform Launches an AI PT Module
San Rafael, United States, September 1st, 2026, CyberNewswire Bright Security Expands AI SDLC Security Platform, Launches AI PT: AI-Powered Penetration Testing That Cuts Weeks Down to Hours As AI compresses the gap between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation to nearly zero, the new AI Pentesting Module gives security teams continuous, AI-driven penetration testing built on Bright’s…
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Filigran Adds AI-Powered Attack Chaining to OpenAEV for Autonomous Pentesting
Filigran has launched a new attack chaining capability for its OpenAEV platform, designed to help security teams test how multiple weaknesses can be combined to create a viable path through an organisation’s environment. Released as part of OpenAEV v3, Attack Chaining allows penetration tests and red team exercises to adapt dynamically based on what a…
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Cyber Insurance Pentest Requirements: What Insurers Ask For
Key TakeawaysMost carriers now require an annual third party penetration test for cyber insurance policies above 1 million dollars in coverage, and internal vulnerability scans do not satisfy this requirement on their own.Policies at 5 million dollars and above typically… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/cyber-insurance-pentest-requirements-what-insurers-ask-for/
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Your Pentest Agent Needs the Credential. Its LLM Doesn’t. Can We Keep Them Apart?
How Does the Security Harness Work? An agentic penetration testing platform has to let its agents access real secrets: test credentials, session cookies, and tokens pulled from a vulnerable API…. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/your-pentest-agent-needs-the-credential-its-llm-doesnt-can-we-keep-them-apart/
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Offensive Security Investments Surge as AI Threats Increase
Omdia’s Theresa Lanowitz talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about the potential, and risks, of using agentic AI for penetration testing, red teaming, and other practices. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/offensive-security-investments-surge-ai-threats-increase
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Can AI Replace Penetration Testing? What 2026 Data Shows
Can AI replace penetration testing is a question with real 2026 benchmark data behind it now, and the honest answer is more specific than either side of the debate usually presents. The post Can AI Replace Penetration Testing? What 2026 Data Shows appeared first on Packet33. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/can-ai-replace-penetration-testing-what-2026-data-shows/
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Mandiant Opens Agentic Security Harness to Industry
AVDH Scans Enterprise Code at Scale to Find and Validate Exploit Paths. Google Mandiant opened its playbook on agentic security by releasing the architecture it used to develop its Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness to analyzes code and quickly identify exploit paths during reviews, penetration testing and red team operations. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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SOC 2 vs HIPAA Pentest Requirements for HealthTech Startups
Key Takeaways SOC 2 does not explicitly name penetration testing as mandatory, but auditors expect one in practice for any company handling sensitive data at scale. HIPAA does not name penetration testing as a required control either, it requires a risk analysis, and a pentest is the most common way companies demonstrate one was performed…The…
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SOC 2 vs HIPAA Pentest Requirements for HealthTech Startups
Key Takeaways SOC 2 does not explicitly name penetration testing as mandatory, but auditors expect one in practice for any company handling sensitive data at scale. HIPAA does not name penetration testing as a required control either, it requires a risk analysis, and a pentest is the most common way companies demonstrate one was performed…The…
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Escape found the same XSS in two AI chatboxes. The vulnerability was in the Markdown renderer.
Weeks apart, at two unrelated companies, Escape’s AI pentesting agent found the same stored XSS. Both had shipped a customer-facing chat where the model emits Markdown and the frontend renders it with raw HTML enabled and no sanitizer, so anything the model can be made to say executes First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article:…
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Horizon3.ai alternatives in 2026: Escape vs NodeZero and 4 more tools
Escape is the best Horizon3.ai alternative for continuous AI pentesting across APIs, web apps, and complex authentication, including regression testing, developer-ready remediation, and platform pricing suited for rapidly scaling orgs. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/horizon3-ai-alternatives-in-2026-escape-vs-nodezero-and-4-more-tools/
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Horizon3.ai alternatives in 2026: Escape vs NodeZero and 4 more tools
Escape is the best Horizon3.ai alternative for continuous AI pentesting across APIs, web apps, and complex authentication, including regression testing, developer-ready remediation, and platform pricing suited for rapidly scaling orgs. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/horizon3-ai-alternatives-in-2026-escape-vs-nodezero-and-4-more-tools/
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Pentera Alternatives for Continuous Pentesting: 7 Competitors Compared In-Depth
Compare the best Pentera alternatives in 2026 for network validation, application-layer pentesting, and BAS. Honest strengths, limits, and fit. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/pentera-alternatives-for-continuous-pentesting-7-competitors-compared-in-depth/
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Google Mandiant AI Agents Find Over 100 Critical Vulnerabilities in Source Code Within Two Days
Tags: ai, breach, corporate, cyber, google, group, incident response, intelligence, mandiant, penetration-testing, RedTeam, threat, vulnerabilityGoogle’s Threat Intelligence Group has announced that its Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness (AVDH) identified over 100 critical true-positive vulnerabilities in stolen corporate source code repositories within just two days. This result highlights how agentic AI can significantly accelerate vulnerability discovery during incident response, red teaming, penetration testing, and proactive secure code reviews, especially when adversaries…
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The inconvenient truth about AI pentesting: someone has to check all the work
AI pentesting can flood teams with findings they cannot validate. The real challenge is managing “validation debt” as discovery scales. AI pentesting has a ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ problem. Enchant a broom to fetch water, and it will fetch water, relentlessly, long after the workshop has flooded. The industry is busy measuring how fast AI finds vulnerabilities…
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development
OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT”‘5.6″‘Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response.”Built on GPT”‘5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks (e.g., finding zero-day vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains) and to reduce refusals for certain higher-risk First seen on…
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OpenAI releases ChatGPT 5.6 Cyber, but it’s only for approved users
OpenAI has developed a new model called “GPT 5.6 Cyber,” designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-releases-chatgpt-56-cyber-but-its-only-for-approved-users/
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Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a Boutique Firm?
Tags: penetration-testingA pentest report from a boutique firm gets accepted or rejected based on what is actually in the report, not the size of the company that produced it. The honest answer to whether it will pass review has nothing to do with employee headcount. The post Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a…
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Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a Boutique Firm?
Tags: penetration-testingA pentest report from a boutique firm gets accepted or rejected based on what is actually in the report, not the size of the company that produced it. The honest answer to whether it will pass review has nothing to do with employee headcount. The post Will Enterprise Prospects Accept a Pentest Report From a…
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What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing, commonly known as “pen testing,” is an authorised attack where trusted cyber security experts evaluate physical and digital systems, networks, or applications. It … Read more First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/what-is-penetration-testing-2/
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Intruder’s Chris Wallis on AI pentesting and the future of cybersecurity
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/intruders-chris-wallis-on-ai-pentesting-and-the-future-of-cybersecurity
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Ido Geffen on why Novee owns the full AI pentesting stack
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/ido-geffen-on-why-novee-owns-the-full-ai-pentesting-stack
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Top 10 Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Companies 2026
In today’s interconnected digital world, no organization is truly safe from cyber threats. A single unpatched vulnerability can become an open door for a devastating cyberattack, leading to data breaches, financial losses, and irreparable damage to a brand’s reputation. To stay ahead of sophisticated attackers, businesses must be proactive, not reactive. This is where vulnerability…
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Novee Brings Continuous AI Pentesting to Mobile Applications
Novee has expanded its AI penetration testing platform to mobile applications, extending continuous testing across mobile, web, APIs, desktop software and AI-enabled applications. The company announced the update ahead of Black Hat USA 2026. Novee said users can upload a mobile application package and receive results within hours, alongside findings from their other application assets……