Brief

What Is Autonomous Pentesting?

See how autonomous pentesting changes offensive security through AI-driven testing, exploit validation, and scalable execution.

Beyond simply AI applied to security tooling, autonomous pentesting is AI performing offensive security work inside a controlled system build for exploit validation, operational safety, and enterprise scale.

In this brief, you will learn:

The definition of autonomous pentesting

What AI does, and what humans do, in each step of autonomous pentesting

The difference between an autonomous pentesting platform and a frontier model

The main components of the XBOW autonomous offensive security platform

Leo Golovyrin
Application Security Lead of Seznam.cz

"Even right now after 1 year, I don’t know any other company that is at least close to XBOW in terms of agentic pentesting."