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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.

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The Top Open-Source AI Pentesting Tools in 2026, and What Each One Leaves You to Build

Fewer than five open-source offensive security agents existed before GPT-4 shipped. By March 2026 Hadrian’s census counted roughly seventy. The good ones are not thin LLM wrappers. They drive nmap, Burp and sqlmap, read the output, reason about what it implies, and choose the next move. That is closer to how a tester works than… Read More »The Top Open-Source AI Pentesting Tools in 2026, and What Each One Leaves You to Build

FireCompass autonomous AI penetration testing agent reaching Top 3 on HackerOne US leaderboard on a $5,000 monthly budget

Press Release: AI Pentest Agent Reaches HackerOne’s Top 3 on a $5,000-a-Month Budget

FireCompass on HackerOne, US leaderboard highlights.   A three-month live experiment by FireCompass reached top-three positions across multiple HackerOne leaderboards, on a $5,000 monthly budget, less than a junior pen tester’s salary. BOSTON, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire The cost of advanced offensive security is falling fast. In a three-month experiment on a live, authorized global… Read More »Press Release: AI Pentest Agent Reaches HackerOne’s Top 3 on a $5,000-a-Month Budget

FireCompass AI Agents reaching Top 3 on HackerOne leaderboard graphic

How FireCompass AI Agents Reached HackerOne’s Top 3 on $5,000 a Month: Full Methodology, Data, and Limitations

FireCompass Emerging Research. April to July 2026. For one quarter, we ran our AI agent on HackerOne, in the open, competing against human researchers and every other agent hunting the same targets. No lab. No curated benchmark. The agent competed as firecompass-ai on a compute budget of about $5,000 per month. By the July snapshot,… Read More »How FireCompass AI Agents Reached HackerOne’s Top 3 on $5,000 a Month: Full Methodology, Data, and Limitations

Weekly Report: New Hacking Techniques and Critical CVEs 13 Jul to 19 Jul 2026

The week of 13 to 19 July 2026 was defined by operational disruption. A ransomware attack shut down all US production at Coca-Cola’s Fairlife dairy subsidiary, attackers stole client tax documents from EY through a third-party support platform, and a previously undocumented threat actor exploited SonicWall VPN zero-days for weeks before public disclosure. One incident… Read More »Weekly Report: New Hacking Techniques and Critical CVEs 13 Jul to 19 Jul 2026

Firecompass ranked #1 AI on HackerOne. Read more →