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What Is Agentic Pentesting? What It Proves, and Where It Stops.

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Picus, which sells an autonomous pentesting product, argues that agentic pentesting proves two things: whether individual exposures are exploitable, confirmed by safely executing exploits, and whether exploits can be chained from initial access to a critical asset. The article contends that the timing of that proof (weeks for a 250,000-endpoint estate against an eight-hour exploitation window) and the share of the estate it covers are the questions that determine whether validation programs succeed.

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