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  • 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.
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    OWASP Gen AI Security Project — Annou…

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  • AI-augmented reconnaissance and OSINTThe GIAC Offensive AI Analyst certification objectives require candidates to demonstrate the reconnaissance phase of penetration testing, apply AI safely and ethically during OSINT activities, and perform AI-powered reconnaissance and OSINT automation.
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    GIAC — Offensive AI Analyst (GOAA) Ce…

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