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

Best AI pentesting platforms for SOC 2 and PCI DSS compliance
Seven AI pentesting platforms compared on what SOC 2 and PCI DSS v4.0.1 actually ask for: scope, who tests, retests, and proof of what ran and what didn't.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How Agentic Pentesting Separates Test Failures From Real Security Findings
Agentic pentesting reliability on unstable apps: a six-state failure taxonomy, safe retry rules, and what a trustworthy pentest report must disclose.

Bug Bounty vs. Pentesting vs. AI Pentesting: Which Model Fits Your AppSec Program?
Bug bounty vs pentesting vs AI pentesting: compare costs, coverage, compliance, and when to use each model. Build a layered AppSec testing strategy.

Pentesting In-House vs. Outsourcing: Cost, Coverage, and the Third Option
Compare in-house vs outsourced pentesting on cost, coverage, and depth. Discover why AI pentesting is the third option that changes the math for security teams.