The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting

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Summary by Cyber Security News21 Oct 2026, 12:32 CET

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An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the model.

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