Field notes from the offensive side.
Straight talk from people who break into things for a living, written for the people responsible for keeping them out. What testing should cost, how attackers actually move, and where AI helps and where it does not.
Where Does Your Data Go When an "AI Pentest" Runs?
"AI-powered" penetration testing often sends your source, scope, and findings to a third-party model, sometimes without your consent. Here is the custody question to ask, and how to keep your data under your control.
Read →The Hidden Cost of a Cheap Pentest: A Buyer's Checklist for Choosing a Vendor
A cheap penetration test is rarely cheap; the cost just hides in what the vendor misses. A seven-point checklist for choosing a pentest vendor before you sign.
Read →If Your Pentest Costs the Same as Last Year, You're Paying Too Much
In 2025, AI pushed a major audit fee down 14%. Penetration testing is overdue for the same reckoning. If your pentest still costs what it did before AI, the savings aren't reaching you, here's how to tell.
Read →Human-Led, AI-Amplified: What It Actually Means (and What "AI Pentesting" Gets Wrong)
"AI-powered penetration testing" describes two opposite things. Here's the difference between AI that replaces testers and AI that amplifies them, and why it decides whether you find the flaw that matters.
Read →We Kept Quiet for Twenty Years. Here's Why We're Talking Now.
Why a 20-year offensive-security firm is only now writing in public, and what changed enough to make discretion stop being the whole job.
Read →Find out what others missed.
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