Synack Adds AI Agent to Enable Continuous Penetration Testing

Synack introduced 'Sara', an AI agent trained on penetration-testing metadata to help automate discovery of vulnerabilities and augment human red teams; a survey cited shows strong interest and expected displacement of traditional pentesting by agentic AI, tempered by a preference for human oversight and calls for guardrails. The report emphasizes that AI can increase the pace and scale of vulnerability discovery and remediation demands, while also warning that attackers will use similar tools, but it does not describe any specific security incident.