AppSec Teams Can Use AI Agents for Self‑Web‑App Penetration Testing
Original headline: The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting
AppSec teams can point an AI agent built on a general‑purpose model at their own web applications with minimal setup. While the model generates the attack code, the safety of running those attacks in production and the value of subsequent remediation depend on the harness surrounding the model. The Hugging Face intrusion disclosed by OpenAI in July underscores the importance of this harness.
Ensuring a robust harness is essential for safely operationalizing AI‑driven penetration testing.
Research angleHow does adopting AI‑agent‑based penetration testing affect an organization’s security decision‑making efficiency? — Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
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