Summary of a closed-door CISO roundtable, hosted by CISO Platform with FireCompass, August 2026. Held under Chatham House convention. Senior security leaders spent a session on three questions. What does it cost to run an AI pentesting agent at full speed? What has to be true architecturally before you point one at production. And what… Read More »Implementing Agentic AI Pentesting While Managing Risk and Cost
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
25 red teaming tools for 2026, ranked by category, from autonomous AI pentest platforms to Metasploit, Burp Suite, and BloodHound.
Amass, Subfinder, Katana, Shodan, and more: the recon stack that finds shadow apps, forgotten subdomains, and leaked API endpoints before attackers do.
XM Cyber models internal attack paths. Picus validates security controls. FireCompass pentests your external web apps and APIs with proof of exploit.