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Picus puts AI agents on the offensive with autonomous pentesting

Picus Security announced Picus Autonomous Penetration Testing, an agentic capability in which AI agents chain real exploits toward an organization's critical assets and demonstrate what a breach would look like, under governance the agent cannot override. The launch rebuilds Picus's automated penetration testing on five years of enterprise deployments and thousands of automated pentests, the company said.

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Picus Security has announced Picus Autonomous Penetration Testing, an agentic pentesting capability that puts AI agents on the offensive: they think like attackers, chain real exploits toward an organization’s crown jewels, and prove what a breach would look like, under governance the agent cannot override. The launch rebuilds Picus’s automated penetration testing for the agentic era on five years of enterprise deployments and thousands of automated pentests. In the post-Mythos era, AI models find and … More

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