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Will AI replace human pen testers?

It’s become pretty standard to expect the help of AI with automating tasks, with penetration testing being no exception. As AI-driven tools grow more sophisticated, some have posed the question: could these systems render the traditional human pen tester obsolete entirely? We’ll explore the strengths and limitations of AI when it comes to offensive security and predict the role human red team expertise still has to play in an increasingly automated world.

10 Signs Your Organization Needs a Penetration Test Immediately

Over 2,200 cyberattacks hit businesses every day. Most exploiting known but unpatched vulnerabilities. These blind spots are why the average cost of a breach has climbed to $4.88 million, impacting not just finances but trust, compliance, and operations. One of the biggest signs you need a penetration test is the presence of undetected vulnerabilities lurking in your systems, despite existing security controls. Pen testing helps uncover these hidden risks before attackers do..

Back Up With Care, But Neglecting Patches can Leave You in Despair!

CVE-2024-7348, which was discovered by Noah Misch, is a race condition vulnerability affecting multiple versions of PostgreSQL when using the `pg_dump` utility. An attacker with sufficient privileges can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary SQL commands with the permission of the user, which is typically a superuser, running the dump.

Trustwave Named as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for DFIR Retainer Services

Trustwave is proud to announce that Gartner has named us as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) Retainer Services. This is the sixth time Trustwave has been placed as a Representative Vendor in the Market Guide DFIR six times since the report's inception.

Automated Brand Impersonation Protection: How It Works (and Why It Matters Now)

Automated brand impersonation protection has become a baseline requirement for digital security. As phishing operations scale across web domains, mobile app stores, social platforms, and ad networks, attackers are moving faster and operating more broadly than ever before. Traditional defenses – periodic scans, manual takedowns, post-incident analysis – are too slow and too shallow.

Leaked credentials are all over the dark web: Is your business impacted?

Researchers believe AI tools are fueling a dramatic 42% surge in the amount of leaked credentials circulating for sale on the dark web. Each year, automated scrapers and human-operated groups comb through dark web forums, paste sites, and underground marketplaces to collect and repackage hundreds of millions of username–password pairs. Many organizations remain unaware of the full scope of these leaks until it’s too late, because breach disclosures are often delayed or incomplete.