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Agentic AI-Assisted Penetration Testing: AI Scale. Human Precision

When Mythos launched, headlines warning of its potential dangers were prolific. For security risk leaders, it felt like a watershed moment, one that signaled that AI had arrived, but simultaneously raised widespread concern about risk. Many wanted to understand how real the risk was for their organization and what should be done about it.

A Configuration Change Should Never Leave You Guessing

Security controls change constantly. Firewall rules are modified, endpoint exclusions are added, identity policies are adjusted, and temporary exceptions appear as teams respond to new business and operational requirements. Some of those changes are expected. Some turn out to be harmless. Others quietly weaken the defenses organizations depend on. Detecting that a configuration changed is really important for security teams, but it’s just the beginning of the investigation.

Measuring AI Agent Coverage Against the Gateway Log

A tool gateway reads every call that crosses it and enforces policy on each one. It is blind to whatever never traverses it, which is established and not the interesting part. ‍ The useful number is what fraction of an agent's total action surface the gateway covers. Blindness of unknown size and blindness of known size are different problems, and only the second lets you state what a gateway-based claim is worth. ‍

Securing what your Bedrock AgentCore agents actually do

An AI agent is software that can act on your behalf. It may read documents, emails, and web pages, then use the systems you connected to complete a task. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore makes these agents faster to build and deploy. But securing them requires more than limiting which systems an agent can access. You also need to consider what the agent can read once it gets there. A document, email, or web page may contain hidden or malicious instructions designed to influence an agent’s next action.

Copilot broke your insider threat detection, and MITRE wrote the proof

MITRE ATT&CK's detection analytic for adversaries mining SharePoint describes bulk access to files and metadata in a short window by privileged or rarely used accounts. That is also a description of Microsoft 365 Copilot answering a question. The technique hasn't changed, but the baseline has, and the exposure now happens with no vulnerability, no compromised credential, and no malicious intent anywhere in the chain.

AI Has Entered the SOC. Governance Has to Catch Up.

ISO/IEC 42001 is the international standard for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems. For CISOs, the bigger question is whether governance reaches all the way into the security workflows where AI is beginning to act. Beth Dannemiller, Senior Director, Product Marketing For the last several years, CISOs have been asked a familiar question by boards: What are we doing with AI? That question is changing.