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Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.

Offensive SecurityCTEM

Strobes AI: The Agent Stack Specialized for Offensive Security

A deep-dive into the multi-agent architecture behind Strobes AI — 12 purpose-built offensive security agents, the Skills system, Human in the Loop governance, and the architectural properties that make continuous exposure management viable at scale.

Mar 27, 20268 min

Offensive SecurityPenetration Testing

Agentic Pentesting with Strobes AI

What happens when you point Strobes AI at a real web app and let it run a full OWASP WSTG assessment with zero hand-holding? 32 tasks, 21 phases, 42 confirmed vulnerabilities — all autonomous.

Mar 25, 20269 min

AI Harness for Offensive Security - Strobes blog cover showing multi-agent architecture concept

Offensive SecurityPenetration Testing

Building an AI Harness for Offensive Security: What It Takes to Turn LLMs Into Reliable Pentest and Validation Operators

The model is 20% of the problem. Here is the engineering story behind the orchestration, tooling, middleware, and infrastructure that turns a capable LLM into a reliable penetration testing operator.

Mar 22, 202614 min

Three-angle crawl strategy: static analysis, swarm crawling, browser handover into Strobes orchestrator

Penetration TestingOffensive Security

Why Crawling Is the Hardest Part of AI-Powered Pen Testing (And How We Fixed It)

AI agents are brilliant at reading code but terrible at navigating browsers. Here's how Strobes combines static analysis, CDP-based swarm crawling, and human browser handover to build a complete attack surface map before testing begins.

Mar 20, 202612 min

Offensive Security

Assumed Breach Assessment Explained

An assumed breach assessment starts with the attacker already inside, so the whole budget goes to detection, response, and blast radius instead of the front door. Here is how it works and when to use it.

Feb 19, 20268 min

Offensive Security

The Five Stages of Red Team Methodology

Red team methodology runs in five stages, recon, initial access, foothold and C2, lateral movement and privilege escalation, then actions on objective. Here is each stage with the ATT&CK techniques and the detections that should fire.

Feb 4, 20268 min

Offensive SecurityCISO

Red Team vs Blue Team: A CISO's Guide to Offensive Security

Red team vs blue team is the wrong question for a CISO. The right one is how fast the gap between what red gets away with and what blue catches is closing. Here is how to run both.

Jan 20, 20268 min

Offensive SecurityPenetration Testing

What Is a Red Team Assessment? (And How It Differs From Pentesting)

A red team assessment is a goal-based attack simulation that tests whether your SOC would catch a real adversary. Here is what one looks like end to end, with the detection gaps it exposes.

Jan 5, 20268 min

Offensive Security

Social Engineering Penetration Testing Guide

A social engineering penetration testing field guide: building an OSINT pretext, running an authorized GoPhish campaign, mapping to MITRE ATT&CK T1566, and the metrics that prove resilience.

Dec 21, 20258 min

Offensive Security

IoT Penetration Testing Guide

An IoT penetration testing field guide: binwalk firmware extraction, cracking /etc/shadow with hashcat, dropping to a U-Boot root shell, flashrom SPI dumps, and open MQTT brokers.

Dec 6, 20259 min

Offensive SecurityApplication Security

Thick Client Penetration Testing Guide

A field guide to thick client penetration testing: decompiling .NET with dnSpy, Frida auth hooks, named-pipe DACL abuse, and the report-grade findings that come out of it.

Nov 21, 20259 min

Network PentestingOffensive Security

Active Directory Penetration Testing Checklist

Most domains fall without a single CVE. This Active Directory penetration testing checklist walks the phases with real Kerberoast and Certipy output, a findings table, and the controls that actually break each path.

Sep 22, 20257 min