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Priyanka Aash

Priyanka has 10+ years of experience in Strategy, Community Building & Inbound Marketing and through CISO Platform has earlier worked with marketing teams of IBM, VMware, F5 Networks, Barracuda Network, Checkpoint, and more. Priyanka is passionate about Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Marketing Strategy. Earlier she co-founded CISO Platform- the world’s 1st online platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing among senior information security executives.

Pentera alternatives

Pentera Alternatives for Continuous Automated Penetration Testing: Top Platforms Compared (2026)

Pentera is a mature security validation platform covering internal networks, external infrastructure (via Pentera Surface), and cloud environments. If your threat model centers on infrastructure validation across those surfaces, it fits. But if you need continuous external web and API penetration testing with deep OWASP Top 10 coverage, zero-knowledge attack surface discovery from an org… Read More »Pentera Alternatives for Continuous Automated Penetration Testing: Top Platforms Compared (2026)

AI Agents Are Doing Real Work. Governing Them Is the Unsolved Problem

AI Agents Are Doing Real Work. Governing Them Is the Unsolved Problem

Insights from a closed-door roundtable on AI agent safety and governance, chaired by Bruce Schneier and hosted by FireCompass founder Bikash Barai. Participant comments are kept anonymous by agreement. The most useful thing about this roundtable was that nobody pretended to have the answer. A room of senior security leaders spent an hour on AI… Read More »AI Agents Are Doing Real Work. Governing Them Is the Unsolved Problem

Fable 5 Just Refused Your Security Work. 7 Insights.

7 Insights: How Fable 5 (Mythos Avatar) Will Change Your Offensive Security Program

Yesterday, Anthropic shipped Fable 5, the public avatar of its Mythos-class model and the most capable model it has ever released to anyone with a subscription. Fable 5 and the gated Mythos 5 are the same underlying weights. What separates them is a layer of safety classifiers, separate models that inspect every request, and the… Read More »7 Insights: How Fable 5 (Mythos Avatar) Will Change Your Offensive Security Program

Breach and attack simulation explained

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS): What It Validates, and How It Differs from CART, AI Pen Testing, and COST

Plenty of organizations end a quarter with a clean Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) dashboard and a real breach in the same window. That is not a contradiction. It is a category being asked to answer a question it was never built to answer. BAS tells you whether your controls catch known attacker techniques. That… Read More »Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS): What It Validates, and How It Differs from CART, AI Pen Testing, and COST