Revolutionizing Security Operations for SecOps Professionals

Blog

AI-Powered Pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI: Revolutionizing Security Operations for SecOps Professionals

Blog

Prancer
November 4, 2024

AI-Powered Pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI: Revolutionizing Security Operations for SecOps Professionals

Penetration testing (pentesting), has always been a critical part of identifying vulnerabilities and hardening systems in the fast-moving world of cybersecurity. But traditional pentesting approaches have their shortcomings. Assessments are frequently time consuming and expensive, as well as sporadic, leading to security gaps between assessments. This model, however, is no longer sufficient for modern Security Operations (SecOps) teams protecting fast moving, complex infrastructures.

Then comes AI powered pentesting – the next big thing that uses automation and AI to run security assessments faster, and much more deeply. Prancer PenSuite AI is an advanced pentesting platform combining the power of AI with the scalability and flexibility of Pentest as Code (PaC) that continuously, automatically, and intelligently performs security testing.

In this blog post we will walk you through the top benefits of AI driven pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI and explain how it can be a game changer for SecOps teams who want to tighten security posture of their organization.

Continuous and Automated Pentesting: No More Gaps

Traditionally, pentesting is performed on a scheduled basis, from a handful of times a year down to just a few times per year, thereby leaving large gaps between assessments. These periods can bring new vulnerabilities to life, causing organizations to be exposed. This issue is solved by continuous, automatic testing, powered by AI-driven pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI.

With Prancer, SecOps teams can:

Automate pentesting workflows and run tests as part of continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
Assess continuously and adapt to the newest discovered threats and vulnerability.

Automate your scans and integrate them into daily or weekly operations — running your systems through real time testing as new updates or changes to your infrastructure happen.

By removing the need for manual testing cycles, SecOps professionals can be assured that security vulnerabilities are identified in stride and addressed with stronger defense and less of an attack surface.

Key Benefit:

Pentesting is continuous and automated, so you always have security and there’s no risk of having that vulnerability not get detected between two manual assessments.

AI-Powered Risk Prioritization: Focus on What Matters Most

During traditional pentesting, security teams are usually left with long lists of vulnerabilities without clear direction on which they should tackle first. The result of this can be a massive queue of unresolved vulnerabilities, a lot of which are not serious yet. AI driven pentesting is game changing and they can automate and prioritize the risk while SecOps teams can focus on what’s important.

Prancer PenSuite AI uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to:

Correlate risks across different data points, including CVE, CWE, severity levels, etc. and, based on criticality, prioritize vulnerabilities.
Discover high risk vulnerabilities which represent the biggest threat to the org, allowing teams to efficiently prioritize remediation efforts.
Use AI to dynamically simulate attacks, testing how different vulnerabilities would affect real world situations to find out which vulnerabilities would most likely be exploited by adversaries.

SecOps teams can use this AI driven risk prioritization to cut through the noise and focus on the highest priority threats, so you tackle the most critical vulnerabilities before anything else.

Key Benefit:

AI based risk prioritization helps remediate vulnerabilities in the least amount of time by putting the highest priority to the most critical vulnerabilities, thus improving overall securoty posture.

Testing Made Faster and Scalable for Complex Environments

As hybrid clouds and multi-cloud architectures, containerized and serverless infrastructures proliferate, SecOps teams are responsible for striking the balance of protecting increasingly complex environments. However, traditional pentesting methods often find it very hard to scale effectively in these dynamic environments and may end up with incomplete coverage or a slow testing process. Prancer is an AI powered pentester which solves these challenges by making pentesting faster, more scalable and comprehensive.

With Prancer PenSuite AI:

Pentest as Code (PaC) provides a way to conduct security tests using a Security as Code approach, so security teams can automate and scale their tests for large infrastructure.
The platform is native to cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes clusters for comprehensive coverage of both on premise and cloud native systems.
Prancer can scale to handle your largest organization — it can run your tests concurrently and across different environments so that you achieve the coverage you want without slowing down or sacrificing performance.

AI allows SecOps teams to execute pentesting faster and at a scale that manual processes could not possibly accomplish.

Key Benefit:

The modern complexity of environments is no match for AI driven pentesting, which scales to test the entire environment faster and more completely.

Lower Operation Expenses and High Efficiency

Unfortunately, traditional pentesting is very resource intensive, and can require highly skilled professionals to spend days or hours manually running tests, analyzing results, and making recommendations. Not only does this raise operational costs, but it can also test the limits of already busy SecOps teams who are tasked with managing many things. Prancer PenSuite AI automates many of these processes, requires less manual intervention and saves costs dramatically.

Here’s how AI-driven pentesting helps reduce costs and improve efficiency:

By automating, we don’t need to do any manual repeating and teams can focus on more important security tasks.
In fact, Prancer’s AI engine does all the real-time vulnerability detection and it eliminates the time needed for identifying the issues and reporting them.
The platform provides increased vulnerability detection by running tests constantly, which catches issues earlier and avoids the cost of not finding them earlier, or from a breach.

With this move towards automation SecOps professionals are able to do more with less, operate more efficiently with both time and budget whilst still maintaining a strong security posture.

Key Benefit:

AI driven pentesting speeds up the process of pentesting and helps SecOps teams be more efficient while maintaining the same level of security at a much lower cost.

Pentest as Code (PaC) : Customizable Pentesting

Automation is important, but SecOps teams typically need the ability to tailor their testing approaches to fit their organization’s specific needs. With Pentest as Code (PaC), Prancer PenSuite AI teams can write, edit and run custom tests using languages they are familiar with Python, JavaScript, and Go.

With PaC, SecOps teams can:

Design custom attack scenarios appropriate to a specific application, environment, or regulatory requirement.
Create attacks based on targeted attacks and simulate specific Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) using open-source testing tools and Frameworks.
You can make use of custom tests that integrate with existing automation workflows to ensure that unique security needs are covered in parallel to standard testing.

PaC provides the flexibility that allows SecOps teams to harness both the power of automation as well as the precision of tailored testing in a holistic security validation.

Key Benefit:

By taking advantage of the automation and scalability of AI driven pentesting, Pentest as Code gives SecOps teams the flexibility to create their own custom attack scenarios.

You can-do real-time reporting and integrate it with SIEM tools.

But one of the main advantages of AI driven pentesting is the possibility to deliver in real time insights into the organization security posture. Prancer PenSuite AI plays very well with the most popular of SIEMs, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Chronicle, helping SecOps teams be able to monitor and act on vulnerabilities in real time.

Prancer’s AI engine continuously feeds vulnerability data into SIEM platforms, helping teams:

Correlate security test results with other security events others in the organization.
Get real time alerts on newly discovered vulnerabilities to fix them faster.
Deliver detailed and persona-based reports to different stakeholders (e.g. SecOps, DevOps, CISO) while keeping reports crystal clear and actionable.

Without these real time insights, SecOps teams can make based on data and respond to threats before they are exploited.

Key Benefit:

Realtime reporting and SIEM integration provides continuous view of what is happening security wise so it is faster to identify and mitigate vulnerability.

Experience the future of security—book a demo today!

Conclusion: Proactive Security Posture set with AI Pentesting

AI powered pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI is a step forward for Security professionals in SecOps to perform security assessments in a new way. Prancer automates testing workflows, leverages AI to prioritize risks, and provides continuous coverage across complex environments to help SecOps be more proactive, efficient and effective in protecting their organization’s infrastructure.

Now in a time when cyber threats keep changing every day, the old ways of pentesting are not sufficient. This AI driven pentesting is much needed and provides the agility, scalability, and intelligence modern SecOps teams need to stay ahead of attackers and keep their security posture resilient.

What makes Prancer PenSuite AI different is that you’re not just identifying vulnerabilities; you’re changing the way you think and approach security, actively protecting yourself every minute of every day in a world where threats come and go with alarming frequency.

Get started with Prancer PenSuite AI’s automating security testing and elevate your SecOps Operations.