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Penetration Testers

AI is reshaping the work of Penetration Testers — here's where you already have an edge.

The Shift

How much of this work overlaps with today's AIA lot

AI is set to change a lot of this work

Source

Felten et al. 2021

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What you do · Where AI is heading

  • AI-assisted vulnerability discoverySANS pen testers report that starting from source code and having an AI agent work through it produced five critical findings on day one of a system they had already tested the year before, spanning authentication bypasses, BOLA, IDOR, cross-tenant access, and race conditions.
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    SANS Institute — AI Vulnerability Dis…

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  • Adversarial AI and LLM red-teamingOWASP's GenAI Red Teaming Guide gives red-team practitioners a structured, risk-based methodology covering everything from model-level vulnerabilities and prompt injection to system-integration pitfalls across model evaluation, implementation, infrastructure, and runtime behavior.
    Where this comes from

    OWASP Gen AI Security Project — Annou…

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Looking Ahead

AI is changing this work — and you can get ahead of it

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