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The inconvenient truth about AI pentesting: someone has to check all the work

Aug 11, 2026, 04:19 PM · by Security Affairs

AI pentesting can flood teams with findings they cannot validate. The real challenge is managing “validation debt” as discovery scales. AI pentesting has a ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ problem. Enchant a broom to fetch water, and it will fetch water, relentlessly, long after the workshop has flooded. The industry is busy measuring how fast AI finds vulnerabilities […]

Source: Security Affairs