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Continuous Offensive Security Testing Is Becoming a Category. Here’s What Most Vendors Will Get Wrong.

Continuous Offensive Security Testing Is Becoming a Category. Here’s What Most People Will Get Wrong

A new label is showing up across the security market: continuous offensive security testing, or COST. The category is real, and it is overdue. After years of CTEM, ASM, BAS, and CART each carving off a piece of the problem, the industry is finally converging on the obvious idea: offensive testing should run continuously, not… Read More »Continuous Offensive Security Testing Is Becoming a Category. Here’s What Most People Will Get Wrong

SEBI AI Guidelines: What 10k+ Financial Entities Must Do

SEBI AI Guidelines: What 10k+ Financial Entities Must Do

SEBI’s May 5, 2026, circular (HO/13/19/12(1)2026-ITD-1_CIMGI/10873/2026) is addressed to every category of regulated entity in the Indian securities market — exchanges, depositories, brokers, mutual funds, custodians, credit rating agencies, merchant bankers, portfolio managers, investment advisors, and more. Over 10,000 entities. The subject: AI-driven vulnerability detection tools like “Claude Mythos” and the new risk dimensions they… Read More »SEBI AI Guidelines: What 10k+ Financial Entities Must Do

10 Questions to Ask Your AI Pen Testing Vendor Before You Sign

10 Questions to Ask Your AI Pen Testing Vendor Before You Sign

The shortlist looks identical. The architecture is not. Every AI pen test vendor on your shortlist will tell you their false positive rate is under five percent. Their demos will look impressive. Their decks will name the same frontier models. This is the problem. Frontier model access is commoditizing. Any team can wire an Anthropic,… Read More »10 Questions to Ask Your AI Pen Testing Vendor Before You Sign

Offensive Security Guide: BAS, CTEM, CART, Pen Test, & COST Explained

BAS, CTEM, CART, Pen Test, VA, AEV, COST: What Each Actually Does, and When to Use What

Every quarter a new three-letter acronym shows up in a vendor deck. Last year it was AEV. This year Gartner introduced COST. CTEM is everywhere. BAS has been around forever and still gets confused with red teaming. Pen test means six different things depending on who you ask. If you run a security program, the… Read More »BAS, CTEM, CART, Pen Test, VA, AEV, COST: What Each Actually Does, and When to Use What

Combinatorial Belief States Are the Cost of Explicit Uncertainty

Combinatorial Belief States Are the Cost of Explicit Uncertainty

Many objections to belief-state planning are framed as concerns about scalability. In practice, they are concerned about visibility. Systems that avoid explicit belief do not eliminate uncertainty; they merely conceal it. This concealment can appear efficient, but it comes at a cost that is paid later often at the point where decisions matter most. This… Read More »Combinatorial Belief States Are the Cost of Explicit Uncertainty

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