Security Insights
Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.
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.
Your board won't ask if you're secure anymore. It will ask you to prove it.
Boards now ask for evidence that cyber risk is within appetite. What board-ready security evidence looks like, how to govern autonomous testing, and how to get it into your 2027 plan.
Why your annual penetration test is already obsolete
Your annual pentest describes an environment that no longer exists. Here is how continuous offensive security testing closes the gap, and what it takes to run one.
How to run an agentic pentesting POC
A 10-day testing playbook to evaluate agentic pentesting vendors: what to test each day, the red flags to watch for, and a scorecard that works with any vendor.
wp2shell: A Pre-Authentication RCE in WordPress Core, and Why It Is an Exposure Validation Problem
wp2shell is a pre-authentication RCE in WordPress Core that an anonymous request can trigger on a default install. Here are the affected versions, the patch steps, and why events like this are really an exposure validation problem.
Vulnerability Chaining: How Agentic Pentesting Proves Attack Paths
Three low-severity findings can chain into one critical breach. See why CVSS misses chained risk and how agentic pentesting proves or rejects each attack path.
What Counts as Valid Proof in an Agentic Pentest?
Valid proof in an agentic pentest is reproducible, in-scope, and attributable evidence of exploitability. What counts, what doesn't, and how to prove it.
The "vulnerability AI race" is a myth. Here's what actually changes for your exposure program.
The "vulnerability AI race" is vendor theater. What AI actually changes for exposure management, and why validation through exploitation beats discovery speed.
Gartner SRM 2026 Broke Something I Believed About Enterprise Security
Strobes CEO Venu Rao shares his takeaways from Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026: everyone can find vulnerabilities, almost no one has cracked fixing them.
Top 8 Data Breaches of May 2026
The 8 confirmed data breaches of May 2026, from the 275M-record Canvas LMS breach to GitHub's VS Code supply chain attack, and how to defend against each pattern.
What Is Agentic Pentesting? The Complete Guide for Security Teams (2026)
Agentic pentesting uses specialized AI agents to test your entire attack surface in hours, not weeks. Here is how it works, what surfaces it covers, how safety is enforced, and how to evaluate platforms with real benchmarks.
Top 10 Data Breaches of April 2026
The biggest data breaches of April 2026 ranked and analyzed, from Checkmarx supply chain poisoning to Salesforce misconfigurations and ransomware hitting two major US banks.