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Cybersecurity experts can't possibly know every technology, vulnerability or discipline within information security. Claiming to know everything is like saying you've finished reading the internet, and even professionals with decades of experience still have plenty to learn.

Astra Autonomous Pentest is an AI-powered Autonomous Penetration Testing platform built to discover, exploit, validate, and help fix security vulnerabilities at scale. Trained on 10M+ security findings and 5,000+ real-world penetration tests, Astra AP uses specialized AI agents to ideate attack strategies, execute real-world attack scenarios, and validate findings with under 5% false positives. Its attack chain-driven approach uncovers complex vulnerabilities, including business logic flaws, IDORs, price manipulation, GraphQL vulnerabilities, and WAF bypasses.

With Elastic AlertZero, security teams can configure agent autonomy, audit agent activity, and choose the AI models that fit their environments without being locked into a single model provider. Mike Nichols, GM of Security at Elastic, explains how AlertZero addresses three priorities for bringing agentic AI into security operations: transparency, control, and model flexibility.

Online harassment erupted after a cybersecurity journalist admitted on live television that he'd only learned about PHP the previous day. Despite covering the breaking security story across BBC broadcasts, one moment of honesty triggered a painful backlash from parts of the cybersecurity community.