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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
autonomous AI agent proving a SQL injection is exploitable
AI SecurityPenetration Testing

How Strobes AI identifies and exploits a SQL injection vulnerability

See how Strobes AI runs autonomous SQL injection testing, finding an injectable parameter, proving exploitability, and shipping evidence for remediation.

Jul 24, 20269 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