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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
Why your annual penetration test is already obsolete: one tested release in January, eleven months of untested releases since
Penetration TestingCTEM

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.

Oct 7, 202615 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
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
Agentic pentesting POC playbook: ten working days, four test blocks, and a 19-criterion scorecard
Penetration TestingOffensive Security

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.

Aug 11, 202634 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
What to Evaluate Before You Let an AI Agent Exploit Your Systems
AI SecurityPenetration Testing

What to Evaluate Before You Let an AI Agent Exploit Your Systems

An AI agent that can exploit your systems does an attacker's work. Here are the seven governance checks to clear before you authorize agentic pentesting in production.

Jul 24, 202615 min
Human-in-the-loop security: why AI findings need human validation
AI SecurityPenetration Testing

Human-in-the-loop security: why AI findings need human validation

An AI pentester can hand you a critical finding in minutes. The only question that matters is whether you believe it. Here is why human validation turns a claim into proof.

Jul 24, 202611 min
Strobes Agentic Pentesting: A pen-tester experience and point of view
Penetration TestingOffensive Security

Strobes Agentic Pentesting: A pen-tester experience and point of view

Eleven validated Critical and High findings from Strobes AI's autonomous pentesting agents, each with the agent's reasoning, the request sent, and the response that proved it.

Jul 12, 202671 min
Top 10 open source agentic pentesting tools, ranked by what they actually do
Penetration TestingOffensive Security

10 Best Open Source Agentic Pentesting Tools in 2026

Compare the 10 best open source agentic pentesting tools for self-hosted workflows, from PentAGI and PentestGPT to CAI, Strix, and VulnBot.

Jul 8, 202631 min
Vulnerability chaining: how agentic pentesting proves attack paths
Penetration TestingOffensive Security

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.

Jul 8, 202618 min