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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 Ephrim Holyson
Meta spent months telling the world its AI support system was making Instagram safer. Within six weeks of launch, the vulnerability in the recovery system had handed 20,000 (Instagram account recovery PII leak) accounts to attackers who never owned them. Two incidents in the first week of June 2026 exposed the same underlying problem from different angles.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Assuming security is a post-revenue problem is the most expensive strategic mistake a founding team can make. Most founders discover this in the worst possible context: a Series A due diligence call, where a prospective investor’s technical team has spent three days stress-testing the product and found that user IDs are sequential integers, the admin panel has no rate limiting, and the staging environment is reachable from the public internet.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Security teams today face a widening gap between the speed of modern software delivery and the cadence of traditional pentesting. Most teams ship weekly, but a full manual pentest only happens periodically and is gated by resource availability.
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By Niharika Mahesh
The one thing security teams are not short of is data. A day in the life of a security expert is filled with scanners, dashboards, pentest reports, tickets, and compliance checklists. But despite all this data, the one staggering question that every security team would literally trade their last brain cell for (or their entire month’s screen time for) is “What is pentesting (risk) moving towards?”
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By Ephrim Holyson
Every modern engineering team pushes code multiple times a day. With each deployment, the attack surface shifts and expands in real time as new dependencies and configurations emerge. According to recent industry data, 16% of teams now deploy on demand or multiple times a day. At this pace, securing the attack surface with traditional pentesting is like playing an exhausting game of Whack-a-Mole, while here the targets never stop evolving and multiplying.
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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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