importantSYS.SOURCE: The Hacker News• 2026-10-21T16:02:40+05:30

The Role of the Harness in Agentic Pentesting Workflows

#ai #security #pentesting #vulnerability

The article highlights that while AI agents can generate attacks with minimal setup, the critical engineering lies in the harness that ensures safety and actionable outcomes. It references a Hugging Face intrusion incident disclosed by OpenAI in July.

An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the model. The harness is where the engineering in AI pentesting sits. The Hugging Face intrusion OpenAI disclosed in July

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