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By Ephrim Holyson
Ask any security engineer what they actually think about their vulnerability scanner, and you will get a version of the same answer. They trust maybe 20% of what shows up in the patching queue. The rest gets a suspicious glance, and a slow death in a backlog. That is the real cost of a false positive. It is quiet, it compounds, and it hollows the tool out from the inside. It is also the reason autonomous pentesting came to replace hypotheses with confirmed exploits.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Ever wonder why a codebase that passes every test in CI still shows up in a breach report six months later? Simply put, tests check whether code works. They rarely check whether code can be abused. Say you build a house with a solid lock on the front door but leave a window unlatched around back. The house still works as a house. It just isn’t secure, and nobody notices until someone climbs through that window. That’s the gap a code security review is built to close.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Somewhere right now, someone is spinning up a fresh Kubernetes cluster, feeling pretty good with a basic firewall, skimmed a hardening guide, and maybe even applied a few CIS benchmarks. What could possibly go wrong? Roughly 18 minutes. That’s the average time before a newly exposed Kubernetes cluster receives its first malicious probe or attack attempt. So there’s zero room for error when it comes to securing Kubernetes.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Most engineering teams believe they solved secret scanning the day they flipped on GitHub’s default toggle, but the game doesn’t stop there. In many cases, an overlooked leak can spiral into a severe data breach, especially when an LLM is connected to sensitive data, internal APIs, or production infrastructure. Exposed credentials are hot and always in demand, and there’s plenty left online for bad actors to hunt.
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By Ephrim Holyson
Have you ever tried to answer “Is this container safe to run?” If yes, then you know how tricky that question is. Securing containers is one of the toughest jobs in security, and hunting vulnerabilities across an estate of them gives security folks the same vibe as hunting in the fifth domain. Container vulnerabilities can live almost anywhere, from the image layers down to the kernel, and every week, a new base image, a new dependency, or a new manifest change opens a fresh gap.
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By Ephrim Holyson
The shift to cloud-native infra has broken the traditional perimeter security model. Modern cloud environments are dynamic, heavily distributed, and identity-driven, creating security challenges that conventional security tools were never built to address. Traditional SIEM and vulnerability management tools lack native capabilities to detect issues in IAM policies, S3 bucket ACLs, or the blast radius of a misconfigured Kubernetes node pool.
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By Prateek Kuber
Run any mature scanner against a container image you built yesterday, and you will likely see dozens — sometimes hundreds — of CVEs. Most of them sit in code you never wrote. That is the uncomfortable reality container image scanning exists to deal with: modern images are assembled from layers of inherited software, and every layer carries someone else’s vulnerabilities into your production environment.
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By Keshav Malik
Security findings are often forgotten in engineering queues. When a pentest report is added to Jira, it is assigned a low priority and remains in the backlog while new features, bug fixes, and refactorings are prioritized. Developers check the ticket and close it because they are unable to replicate the problem, there is no business-related information, and they do not understand how the attacker reached that point.
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By Sanskriti Jain
You know the drill. Two of you, maybe three, covering a product that a fifty-person engineering org reshapes daily. Too much surface, too few hands, and one manual pentest a year, assuming the budget survives Q3. That’s the reality autonomous pentesting for lean security teams was built for, and what forms the core of this guide.
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By Niharika Mahesh
If there’s one thing all of us can agree about modern security, it is that penetration testing is no longer a once-a-year activity. Modern attack surfaces do not stay still. New code ships faster, cloud infrastructure is constantly changing, and APIs are multiplying across product ecosystems. To keep up, engineering teams have moved security earlier in the development lifecycle through shift-left practices.
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By Astra Security
AI Led Pentesting is redefining how organizations approach application security. As software development accelerates with AI-assisted coding, cloud-native applications, and rapidly evolving attack surfaces, traditional penetration testing is struggling to keep pace. In this detailed video, we explore why the future of security testing needs to be continuous, intelligent, and autonomous led by AI.
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By Astra Security
Think this is just another product video? Think again. Join us for a live demo of Astra Autonomous Pentesting and see how modern security teams uncover and validate vulnerabilities in real time.
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By Astra Security
Announcing the OWASP Autonomous Penetration Testing Standard (APTS) | Conversation with OWASP Autonomous Penetration Testing Standard (APTS) lead Jinson Varghese.
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