The model is the reasoning component. Everything that makes a test real lives outside it. Every AI penetration testing pitch now leads with the model. Point the strongest frontier LLM at your application, the story goes, and pentest quality follows. Buyers have started evaluating vendors the same way: which model is behind the agent, and… Read More »Why an LLM Alone Cannot Run an AI Penetration Test
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
Why the same models produce different results, and what a self-hosting team inherits. An AppSec engineer can self-host an autonomous pentest agent this weekend. Clone Strix or PentAGI, plug in an API key, and by Monday it is finding vulnerabilities in staging. The code is good, the licence is free, and the models underneath are… Read More »FireCompass AI Agents vs Open-Source Agent Frameworks
As organizations continue to expose authentication and account-recovery flows directly to the public internet, these flows remain some of the highest-value, least-forgiving attack surfaces on the web. A single unparameterized query can turn a login form into a full database read primitive. During a recent bug bounty assessment, this finding was surfaced by FireCompass’s Agentic… Read More »How FireCompass AI Agent Discovered a Critical SQL Injection in an Authentication and Password-Reset Flow
Modern web applications often expose numerous server-side components that invoke operating system utilities to process user requests. While these utilities simplify functionality, they also expand the attack surface when user-controlled input is passed into shell commands or embedded scripting engines without proper validation. During a recent private bug bounty engagement, FireCompass AI Agent autonomously identified… Read More »From Discovery to Initial Access: How FireCompass AI Agent Identified Multiple Remote Code Execution Paths