Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

You can no longer blindly bank on the security boundary you trusted most, and no one is talking about it enough. For years, phishing took a familiar form, such as emails, URLs, and login pages. ChatGPhish breaks that stereotype, though. Permiso Security’s Andi Ahmeti disclosed this technique on 29 May 2026.

Security teams are spending more money than ever on offensive security, and getting less clarity than ever on what it buys using them. For a long time, the central debate was pentesting vs red teaming. That argument settled itself once buyers understood that the two serve different objectives. Now it’s slipping again due to autonomous pentesting vs red teaming.

Meta spent months telling the world its AI support system was making Instagram safer. Within six weeks of launch, the vulnerability in the recovery system had handed 20,000 (Instagram account recovery PII leak) accounts to attackers who never owned them. Two incidents in the first week of June 2026 exposed the same underlying problem from different angles.

Assuming security is a post-revenue problem is the most expensive strategic mistake a founding team can make. Most founders discover this in the worst possible context: a Series A due diligence call, where a prospective investor’s technical team has spent three days stress-testing the product and found that user IDs are sequential integers, the admin panel has no rate limiting, and the staging environment is reachable from the public internet.

Security teams today face a widening gap between the speed of modern software delivery and the cadence of traditional pentesting. Most teams ship weekly, but a full manual pentest only happens periodically and is gated by resource availability.

The one thing security teams are not short of is data. A day in the life of a security expert is filled with scanners, dashboards, pentest reports, tickets, and compliance checklists. But despite all this data, the one staggering question that every security team would literally trade their last brain cell for (or their entire month’s screen time for) is “What is pentesting (risk) moving towards?”

Every modern engineering team pushes code multiple times a day. With each deployment, the attack surface shifts and expands in real time as new dependencies and configurations emerge. According to recent industry data, 16% of teams now deploy on demand or multiple times a day. At this pace, securing the attack surface with traditional pentesting is like playing an exhausting game of Whack-a-Mole, while here the targets never stop evolving and multiplying.

If you’re looking for a binary answer to the question in the title, we’re sorry. The compliance and framework spheres are as probabilistic and grey as the outcome of your next investor or shareholder meeting. But we can help you stay prepared, that’s for sure.

Autonomous pentesting platforms are sitting at the top of HackerOne’s US leaderboard, surfacing zero-days in systems that had passed traditional audits for years. The capability is real, it is here, and it is only getting faster. But CISOs and procurement teams are not rushing to deploy it.

If you run engineering, security, or compliance at an Indian tech company, DPDP compliance is knocking at your door fresh and clean in less than a year. Our aim is not to present scary statistics but to help you recognize the urgency of the matter and become DPDP compliant at the earliest. Since this law safeguards a nation’s data, the DPBI can thus stack penalties across multiple contraventions in a single incident. So stop debating whether the law applies to you; it almost certainly does.