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aikido

More pentesting, same budget, no surprises

Oct 19, 2026 By Mathias Deloof In Aikido
Development teams ship faster than ever with AI-assisted coding. Features that previously took weeks can now be delivered in days. But security testing still runs on the old schedule. In Aikido's 2026 State of AI in Pentesting report, we found that 76% of organizations deploy significant production changes weekly or faster, while just 21% validate security on every release. Katie Norton, Senior Research Manager at IDC, summed it up.
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aikido

Drata and Aikido: audit-ready pentesting, built into your compliance workflow

Oct 19, 2026 By Michiel Denis In Aikido
Continuous control monitoring and a once-a-year, point-in-time pentest don't sit well together. A manual test means scoping, waiting for a slot, and holding up the audit window for the report. Teams choose Drata to get audit-ready quickly: controls monitored continuously, evidence collected automatically. The pentest is the part that doesn't move at that speed.
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sentrium

How long does a penetration test take?

Oct 16, 2026 By Adam King In Sentrium
One of the most common questions organisations ask when planning a security assessment is how long a penetration test will take. The answer depends heavily on scope, but there is also an important distinction between the time spent actively testing and the overall project timeline. When buyers ask how long a penetration test takes, they may be referring to several different stages.
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veracode

Why Human-led Pentesting Still Matters in the AI Era & Should Be in Your Strategy

Oct 16, 2026 By Ankita Gharai In Veracode
AI tools can scan an entire application in minutes. They flag known vulnerabilities, map attack surfaces, and generate reports that look thorough. So, it’s fair to ask whether human penetration testers are still necessary. They are.
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astra

How Autonomous Pentesting Makes Hunting Business Logic Vulnerabilities Cheaper

Oct 15, 2026 By Jinson Varghese In Astra
For the ten years I have watched this industry, hunting business logic vulnerabilities has been notoriously expensive and exceedingly difficult. Every attempt to bring the cost down has hit the same wall. Now, for the first time, we as an industry have the capability to meaningfully lower the ceiling on what this work costs. I would argue Astra’s autonomous pentesting platform is pioneering that shift.
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How to Choose a Penetration Testing Company: 6 Things to Check

Oct 13, 2026 By Astra Security In Astra
We are sharing six things to check before you sign: who's actually testing, proof of exploit, cloud and API coverage, retesting, continuous testing, and report quality. Backed by 6.8M findings from the State of Pentesting 2026 report. Chapters Astra Security is a penetration testing company that combines autonomous and human-validated pentesting for web apps, APIs, cloud and AI applications.
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Autonomous Pentesting: AI Agents That Test Your App 24/7

Oct 8, 2026 By Astra Security In Astra
Most companies pentest their app once a year. Hackers look for new backdoors every single day. Astra Autonomous Pentesting closes that gap with AI security agents that test your web app continuously, 24/7. Traditional penetration testing gives you a giant report full of jargon that sits on a shelf. Astra works like a friendly hacker that never sleeps. When it finds a security weakness, it doesn't just send a scary alert. It explains the exact problem, with the attack story and proof, so clearly that AI coding tools can fix, test and repair the vulnerability the same day.
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Continuous Attacker Emulation: Testing Controls Between Annual Assessments

Continuous Attacker Emulation: Testing Controls Between Annual Assessments

Oct 7, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Security controls are built to stop attackers, but most organizations only find out whether those controls actually work once a year, during a scheduled assessment. In the months between those engagements, configurations change, new tools get deployed, and remediation work from the last test either holds up or quietly fails without anyone noticing. Continuous attacker emulation exists to close that gap, giving security teams an ongoing read on their actual exposure rather than a single snapshot frozen in time.
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Penetration Testing vs Red Teaming: Choosing the Right Approach

Penetration Testing vs Red Teaming: Choosing the Right Approach

Oct 6, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
When you're assessing a building's level of security, you're not just looking at one thing. It's great knowing that the front door has a series of unpickable locks bolted onto it, all of which have only one key in existence, but it's not really going to do anything if you're missing an entire external wall, essentially turning your living room into an open deck.
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Astra's Autonomous Pentest Against Other Tool

Oct 1, 2026 By Astra Security In Astra
Astra vs. Other Tool: Who Finds More Real Vulnerabilities? How does Astra Autonomous Pentesting compare with the other tool when it comes to finding real-world vulnerabilities? In this independent benchmark, Astra was tested against the other tool to evaluate vulnerability coverage, depth, and true-positive findings. The results: 27 true-positive vulnerabilities identified 3.9× more vulnerability coverage 11 distinct vulnerability classes discovered Deep testing across business logic and application behaviour.
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