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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

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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

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

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