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By Sanskriti Jain
From inchoate brainstorming sessions in the halls of Dartmouth College to a panoply of funding springs and winters, AI has made its way into the tech stack of not just almost every enterprise but also every household. This, though music to the ears of an AI researcher, rewards a security professional with sweat beads. Even a single AI/ML/LLM or an MCP feature in your product evolves your attack surface, necessitating scouting for the right AI/ML/LLM/MCP penetration testing companies.
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By Shikhil Sharma
Picture your last security tool purchase. You compared a few vendors, picked the one with the slickest demo, wired it into your pipeline, and moved on. Six months later, you own four scanners that overlap, flood Slack with alerts nobody triages, and somehow still miss the one flaw that actually matters. If that stings a little, you are in good company, and it is exactly why most guides to the best CI/CD security tools point buyers in the wrong direction.
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By Jinson Varghese
A practical buyer’s guide for developers, AppSec engineers, and engineering managers choosing where to scan, what to scan, and which tool actually fits.
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By Rishabh Goyal
Shopping for a web app pentest is confusing on purpose. Every vendor on your shortlist says the same things (“manual testing,” “OWASP coverage,” “audit-ready report”), yet what you get back ranges from a deep, exploit-driven engagement to a scanner export with a logo on it. If you are a CTO, founder, or security lead trying to compare web application penetration testing companies without a security background to lean on, the hard part is not finding providers.
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By Sanskriti Jain
We are going to try something risky here: humility in a blog post about winning an award. Let us start by saying a badge DOES NOT change how Astra-nauts show up for work on a Monday, but when 211 people (as of July 10, 2026) take the time to log into G2 and talk about whether Astra Security holds up to its commitments, months after their engagement closed, we take a minute. This quarter, that added up to a 4.6 out of 5 rating and 72 badges across 19 Grid Reports.
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By Sanskriti Jain
Shopping for security testing, you’d have probably noticed that almost every vendor now promises continuous autonomous pentesting. The word sounds reassuring, suggesting round-the-clock surveillance, patching and making sure nothing slips through. But when you ask for what is being surveilled, when, how frequently, your levers in reporting and support, the milk starts to get curdy. This curd is the word “Continuous”.
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By Sanskriti Jain
Over the years, Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) has helped you identify common vulnerabilities via automated scanning, fuzzing, and pattern-based detection. While valuable for baseline vulnerability discovery and compliance requirements, many security leaders, including maybe yourself, are now questioning DAST.
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By Sanskriti Jain
Ever wonder why security programs in most organizations fall short despite purchasing defensive cybersecurity tools, conducting offensive security scans, and meeting compliance? Simply put, their attack surface changes faster than validation does, i.e., teams add new assets, deploy code constantly, expand access, and let configurations drift. Say you installed fire alarms and ran a safety drill. Months later, you remodel, but you’re still using the old safety checklist. How safe does that sound now?
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By Niharika Mahesh
You can no longer blindly bank on the security boundary you trusted most, and no one is talking about it enough. For years, phishing took a familiar form, such as emails, URLs, and login pages. ChatGPhish breaks that stereotype, though. Permiso Security’s Andi Ahmeti disclosed this technique on 29 May 2026.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Security teams are spending more money than ever on offensive security, and getting less clarity than ever on what it buys using them. For a long time, the central debate was pentesting vs red teaming. That argument settled itself once buyers understood that the two serve different objectives. Now it’s slipping again due to autonomous pentesting vs red teaming.
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By Astra Security
Think this is just another product video? Think again. Join us for a live demo of Astra Autonomous Pentesting and see how modern security teams uncover and validate vulnerabilities in real time.
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By Astra Security
Announcing the OWASP Autonomous Penetration Testing Standard (APTS) | Conversation with OWASP Autonomous Penetration Testing Standard (APTS) lead Jinson Varghese.
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