Deterministic controls are essential when AI agents can act. They also have a precise limit: they can enforce what we have specified and can observe. The rest of the safety problem does not disappear. The penetration-testing agent asks to run a command against a customer host. The policy engine checks whether the destination is in… Read More »Guardrails Are Not a Safety Architecture
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 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
A 5-step workflow for continuous penetration testing without a standing red team: discovery, PoC exploits, attack chaining, and cadence.
Your annual pentest report landed in March. By April, three new shadow apps were live. By June, a developer pushed an unauthenticated API endpoint to production. By the time next year’s engagement kicks off, your attack surface has changed so much that the previous report is archaeology, not security. The question more security teams are… Read More »Continuous Autonomous Pentesting: A 5-Step Workflow for 2026