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AI Agent Development Maturity for Offensive Security: Researching, Building, and Evaluating Autonomous Penetration Testing Agents
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The global cybersecurity workforce shortage, now exceeding 4 million professionals, has created an untenable situation where defenders cannot keep pace with increasingly automated attackers. Penetration testing, a critical proactive security measure, remains labor intensive, expensive, and point in time. This white paper addresses the gap between the demand for scalable security assessment and the current state of automation by exploring the development of AI agents for autonomous penetration testing.
Fasika Mekbib
Jul 2026