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Introducing Red Loop: continuous, proven offensive testing of your whole attack surface
Offensive SecurityCTEM

Introducing Red Loop: continuous, proven testing of your whole attack surface

Red Loop brings continuous offensive testing to Strobes Attack Surface Management. It discovers what you own, scans it the same way every time, and sends results to AI agents that attack and validate them. Only proven findings reach your queue.

Oct 22, 202614 min
How Strobes agents test Android apps on your own devices
Penetration TestingAI Security

Strobes Agentic Pentesting Now Tests Android Apps on Your Own Devices

Strobes Agentic Pentesting now runs Android app pentesting on your own phones and emulators: live crawling, traffic interception, Frida instrumentation, and verified findings.

Oct 6, 202612 min
Strobes joins OpenAI Daybreak Trusted Access for Cyber program
AI SecurityOffensive Security

Strobes joins OpenAI's Daybreak program

OpenAI gates its cyber models behind an application, identity checks, and workspace scoping. Strobes is now verified for Daybreak.

Sep 28, 20264 min
Where your data goes during an AI pentest: agentic pentesting data security featured image
Penetration TestingAI Security

Where your data goes during an AI pentest

Session tokens, customer records, error traces. Here's exactly where that data goes during an agentic pentest, and what to ask any vendor.

Sep 24, 202623 min
Anthropic Cyber Verification Program at Strobes, verified since June 2026
AI Security

Three months inside Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program at Strobes

Strobes has run Claude-powered agentic pentests under Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program since June 2026. Here's what the program gates and what changed in three months.

Sep 21, 20263 min
Are security practitioners actually ready for autonomous pentesting - a field perspective from Strobes Security
Penetration TestingAI Security

Are security practitioners actually ready for autonomous pentesting?

We asked 50+ security leaders one open question about autonomous pentesting. Here is the readiness spectrum that came back, and what vendors get wrong.

Sep 10, 202611 min
NIST just published AI prompts for CSF 2.0, here is what to settle first. Strobes banner showing document, AI model, and shield icons with the six CSF 2.0 functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover
ComplianceAI Security

NIST just published AI prompts for CSF 2.0. Here is what to settle first

NIST's draft SP 1353 provides AI prompts for three CSF 2.0 tasks and says weeks of drafting compresses into hours. Here is what the prompts can draft, what only humans can validate, and the four things to settle before anyone opens a model.

Sep 4, 20268 min
How to automate pentest reporting without losing report quality
Penetration TestingAI Security

How to automate pentest reporting without losing report quality

Report quality is decided before the reporting layer runs. Here's the pipeline, the gates that stop bad output shipping, and what a real automated report contains.

Sep 1, 202615 min
Build vs buy agentic pentesting: building got cheap, owning what you built did not
Penetration TestingOffensive Security

Build vs Buy Agentic Pentesting and What the DIY Path Costs

Everyone can build a working pentest agent in a weekend. Owning it for two years is the hard part: the four costs nobody adds up, and the seven requirements a demo never has to meet.

Aug 31, 202619 min
How to Achieve Cheaper, Faster and Accurate Pentests
Penetration TestingOffensive Security

How to Achieve Cheaper, Faster and Accurate Pentests

Cheaper, faster and accurate pentests were never a real tradeoff. Context removes it: one graph of assets, code and cloud that every engagement reads from and writes back to.

Aug 21, 202623 min
Tooling as Code and Structured Scratchpads
engineeringOffensive Security

Tooling as Code and Structured Scratchpads

The two changes that moved our AI security agents furthest this year had nothing to do with the model. Here is how tooling as code and structured scratchpads reshaped how the agents act, and how they prove a finding is real.

Aug 3, 202615 min
Top data breaches July 2026
Data BreachesAI Security

Top 8 Data Breaches and Exposures of July 2026

The 8 confirmed data breaches of July 2026, from a 78-million-account Suno leak to rogue AI agents breaching Hugging Face and Anthropic. What happened and how to defend.

Aug 1, 202620 min