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AI Pentesting Buyer's Guide: How to evaluate AI pentesting vendors

Jul 9, 2026 By Sooraj Shah In Aikido
Pentesting made sense when releases happened every few months. A point-in-time assessment could provide an accurate picture of risk for weeks, sometimes months. Today, engineering teams ship continuously. Our State of AI in Pentesting survey of 200 CISOs and 200 engineering leaders, found that 76% deploy significant changes at least weekly, while nearly 40% deploy daily. Yet only 21% validate security on every release. That gap has consequences.
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AI Pentesting for Compliance

Jul 2, 2026 By Jens Gellynck In Aikido
For two decades, “penetration testing” has meant the same thing: once a year, you hire a firm, a human tester spends a week or two on your systems, and you get a PDF. Most compliance frameworks were written around exactly that ritual, a slow, manual, point-in-time engagement. Software doesn’t ship once a year anymore. It ships many times a day.
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astra

A Guide to Continuous Autonomous Pentesting

Jun 25, 2026 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
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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How HIPAA Penetration Testing Differs From Standard Security Audits

How HIPAA Penetration Testing Differs From Standard Security Audits

Jun 25, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Healthcare organizations operate under a level of scrutiny that most industries never face. Patient records carry legal protections, and the systems that store them are high-value targets. A general security audit can surface some vulnerabilities, but it was never designed to address the full weight of healthcare compliance. Knowing what separates a HIPAA-specific penetration test from a routine security review helps organizations invest their security resources where they actually matter.
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How a Modern Autonomous Penetration Testing Framework Differs from Legacy DAST

Jun 24, 2026 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
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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Autonomous Pentesting vs. Red Teaming: Do You Still Need Both?

Jun 17, 2026 By Ephrim Holyson In Astra
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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cycognito

Continuous AI Pentesting: What We're Building, and What It's Already Finding

Jun 16, 2026 By Rob Gurzeev In CyCognito
Over the past months, I’ve noticed a shift in customer conversations. Coverage, prioritization, emerging threats — those questions have given way to exposed MCP servers, unmanaged AI chatbots, and risks that don’t show up as CVEs. Mythos comes up in every other call. The calculus changed. AI now writes a quarter of production code, with twice as many vulnerabilities. The exploitation window collapsed from days to hours.
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astra

Autonomous Penetration Testing as a Growth Lever for Startups

Jun 16, 2026 By Ephrim Holyson In Astra
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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5 High-Impact Autonomous Pentesting Capabilities That Traditional Scanners Ignore

Jun 15, 2026 By Ephrim Holyson In Astra
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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