AI Pentesting Thought Leadership

AI FUD: We've Seen This Movie Before

Every generation believes they're the first to face a technology capable of unraveling civilization. We are not.

No Plan Survives First Contact: Scoping the AI-Delivered Pentest

October 6, 2026
Est Read Time: 3 min
Carefully defining and subsequently adhering to an approved scope is arguably the most important qualitative aspect of...
AI Pentesting Thought Leadership

AI FUD: We've Seen This Movie Before

October 1, 2026
Est Read Time: 3 min
Every generation believes they're the first to face a technology capable of unraveling civilization. We are not.
AI Pentesting Thought Leadership

Manual vs. Automated Penetration Testing: Which Should You Choose?

September 29, 2026
Est Read Time: 7 min
Penetration testing is no longer a nice-to-have. With cybersecurity incidents occurring every single day, impacting...
Offensive Security

Automated, Agentic, Autonomous: The AI Pentesting Vocabulary Problem

September 24, 2026
Est Read Time: 5 min
As global penetration testing undergoes its biggest transformation since the invention of PTaaS, offensive security...
AI Pentesting

Case Study: How a Bracket Bypassed a Denylist and Exposed a Database Password

September 17, 2026
Est Read Time: 4 min
Introduction AI features are being bolted onto admin panels faster than security teams can review them....
Cobalt Core

From Internet Exposure to Operational Disruption: A Red Team View of Connected Infrastructure

September 17, 2026
Est Read Time: 9 min
When people think about a cyberattack on water infrastructure, they often imagine the most dramatic outcome: a...
Cobalt Core

How Cobalt Brings Real-Time Exploit and Threat Intelligence to Vulnerability Findings

September 16, 2026
Est Read Time: 4 min
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identify known vulnerabilities in specific components. They don't confirm...
Cybersecurity Services

Pentester Spotlight — Edu Garcia

September 15, 2026
Est Read Time: 4 min
The Cobalt Pentester Spotlight highlights the fascinating journey of our Core members. Through an interview style, we...
Cobalt Core

Beyond Point-in-Time: Continuous Offensive Security with the Cobalt API

September 2, 2026
Est Read Time: 6 min
For enterprise security programs, the challenge was never running offensive security testing against your applications...
Offensive Security
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