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AI-Powered Pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI: Streamlining Security Testing and Reducing SLAs for Security Architects
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November 11, 2024
AI-Powered Pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI Streamlining Security Testing and Reducing SLAs for Security Architects

As far as security architects are concerned, this delay must rank as one of the most infuriating bottlenecks in the security lifecycle: gaining authorization for traditional penetration testing. With the modern project schedule, often longer pentesting cycles just do not fit and could jeopardize the project timeline while leaving potentially fatal flaws unaddressed. Given that modern architecture is changing at an unprecedented rate, the demand for continuous, or at least more frequent, pentesting has grown significantly. 

Introducing AI pentesting with Prancer PenSuite AI, a solution that is intented to avoid such delays and allow security architects to validate their constructed environments and infrastructure on a moment’s notice. The results of using Prancer are the possibility of faster response to threats due to the application of artificial intelligence, automation, and continuous security testing technologies, thus decreasing the SLAs of vulnerability detection and remediation. 

 

In this writing, we will discuss three angles of using Prancer PenSuite AI, and how this innovative tool helps security architects achieve their goal of delivering more secure systems with fewer stall time with the help of security testing. 

The Pentesting of web applications at the click of a button without the wait

Consisting of working with other teams and providing scorecards: currently, the security architecture process relies on other pentest teams or third-party contractors to evaluate security risks. In most organizations, the decision-making process for granting permission for Penetration testing may take days, weeks, and sometimes even months; hence it becomes a big challenge to Organizations on the timelines of security assessment Projects. 

  

In delays such as in the simulated network, whereby responses and overall performance take a hit, pentesting with the help of Prancer and AI is a thing of the past.

 

Prancer PenSuite AI allows security architects to: 

  

  • Be able to perform the pentesting as and when required without having to go through the usual waiting game and scheduling. 

  • Make security testing part of the DevOps life cycle or incorporate it into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes so that a new set of tests is executed every time code is refreshed or infrastructure changed. 

  • Get instant results, which allows for fast Vác of vulnerabilities and does not allow for delays in project completion. 

By setting pentesting as an on-demand process that does not require seeking outside approval, the security architects can proceed at a faster pace and be certain that security will and cannot be a hindrance to development. 

Key Benefit for Security Architects:

When pentesting is on-demand, the need for approval adds time in terms of deployment, while at the same time, SLAs for responding to the vulnerabilities are also low. 

Real Time Identification and Mitigation of Risks

In a rapid development environment, it becomes necessary to be able address new threats as they occur. Putting it off for formal pentest cycles implies that a specific vulnerability may take weeks or months to be discovered and fixed. Specifically, PenSuite AI an AI based solution helps in performing pen testing and offers real time reports on vulnerabilities. 

  

Prancer: 

  

  • Can identify them as soon as any new infrastructure is created or code is written and integrated.

     

  • Offers exact details of the level of threats posed by such weaknesses, and allows security professionals to respond to them on the same scale.

     

  • It assists the architects to close gaps as soon as possible, while the most important flaws cannot be exploited. 

This capacity to react to susceptibilities in real time significantly minimizes the truly agreed service level for mitigating an organization’s security risks, while still ensuring a proactive security approach that is free from customary delays associated with the manual pentesting process. 

Key Benefit for Security Architects:

Real-time vulnerability identification and automated remedial work…Prancer speeds up SLA in identifying and fusing security vulnerabilities so that speedy and secure deployment is feasible. 

Streamlined Approval-Free Security Testing for Faster Project Delivery

Often, to get authorization to perform penetration tests might take consideration of several levels of managers, compliance check, and review of budgets. This can cause hold-ups, in terms of delivery of a project and project duration. For such approval processes, what used to slow business down is not a problem anymore thanks to Prancer PenSuite AI. 

  

Prancer’s AI-powered pentesting platform allows security architects to: 

  

  • Have test capabilities that operate independently at the local level and that do not require outside validation.

     

  • Run the test in parallel into the development life cycle to enable the integration of security testing without complications.

     

  • Faster project project schedules because a lot of time is spent waiting for penetration testing teams to get booked. 

Pentesting automation and inclusion into the development cycle allows the security architects to work with their projects, knowing that there will be no disruptions due to approval issues in external pentesting services. 

Key Benefit for Security Architects:

Prancer removes bureaucratic control of external pentesting approvals by making projects progress and guarantees that security testing integrates with development naturally. 

Interactive Feedback Procedures for Quicker Reaction Times

Historically, pentesting tends to deliver long reports once the process is over, and the security teams are left to sift through them and try and in endeavering prioritize. However, this reduces the response time and also the time taken to rectify the error. 

 

With Prancer PenSuite AI, feedback loops are shortened dramatically: 

  

  • Once a vulnerability is detected, the result is presented in quasi-real time, allowing for an immediate response. 

  • Risk prioritization enables architects to concentrate on the most dangerous issues, guaranteeing that the most dangerous problems are the first to be solved. 

  • With continuous testing, the vulnerabilities are discovered when they come up, not when the next test is being conducted. 

  

This real-time feedback not only increases response times but guarantee to security architects that they can always grow and adapt to the modern infrastructures that are characterized by having active configurations and refreshed programming codes. 

Key Benefit for Security Architects:

The real-time feedback from Prancer means quicker time to remediate and means that security teams are able to easily identify the priority vulnerabilities. 

Continuous validation for the lower end SLAs.

Another important concept of using Prancer PenSuite AI is that it is always on for security validation. While pentest provides point in time assessment with clear time gaps between two assessments, Prancer has a continuous scanning process where systems are pentested frequently. 

  

This continuous validation has a direct impact on the SLA for addressing vulnerabilities: 

  

  • It should be mentioned that automated pentesting is performed continuously through the SDLC processes, which allows detecting the presence of vulnerabilities at the time when they first emerge.

     

  • I also mentioned earlier that the delays often presented by pentesting take place can be entirely skipped by using Prancer, allowing teams to address vulnerabilities almost in real time, if the situation so calls.

     

  • This way, security architects are capable of producing infrastructures that are always checked for security vulnerabilities and compliance to internal and external regulatory standards. 

  

This way, Prancer PenSuite AI shortens the time required to determine the presence of security threats and thus decreases overhead related to improving security making the security architectures able to provide better SLAs. 

Key Benefit for Security Architects:

The consistent security validation with Prancer also means that vulnerabilities are frequently identified preventing higher SLAs for remediation and improving organizational security. 

Simple Implementation into DevOps for Speedy and Safe Deployment

For security architects, the information about integrating security throughout the development SDLC is paramount to realizing faster and more secure deployments. Prancer PenSuite AI allows for the integration of security testing into a specific DevOps pipeline and Continuous Integration and Deployment frameworks. 

  

By integrating with DevOps: 

  

  • Security tests can be performed for each commit, deployment, or update in infrastructure.

     

  • They are provided in real-time, allowing development teams to first address problem reports before products with those problems reach the market.
     
  • The overall time to deploy is less as security orthogonal, it is not a step which has to be taken in parallel and requires perhaps someone else to approve. 

While successfully implementing into the DevOps pipelines, it practically makes security a part of DevSecOps, faster release cycles and less time wasted waiting for pentest approvals. 

Key Benefit for Security Architects:

By fitting well into DevOps pipelines, Prancer eliminates delays in getting to the actual deployment, helping security architects inaugurate, fast and secure, specific projects or systems. 

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Conclusion: AI Pentesting for Accelerated, Non-SDLC Methodology Security Verification

AI Pentest with the help of Prancer PenSuite AI is ideal for security architects who are responsible for designing and managing secure architectures by breaking with the limitations of traditional pentesting, which otherwise would involve lengthy manual processes. With automated security testing to provide real-time vulnerability information and integrated with DevOps environment, Prancer does not require contracting third-party pentesting approval that greatly extends the SLA for remediation of the vulnerabilities in projects and helps deliver projects more quickly and securely. 

  

In a world where security can no longer afford to sit down waiting for approval, Prancer PenSuite AI puts the control of pentesting in the hands of the security architect and delivers faster, more spontaneous security validation across the entire organization. 

  

Learn how you can now get your security testing done and meet your project timelines forgo the lengthy pentesting approval processes with Prancer PenSuite AI.