MCP Server Security: The Blind Spot in Your AI Stack

Short version: an MCP server is the tooling layer that lets an AI agent act on external systems. Hosted remotely, it is an API endpoint like any other — and it needs bot and WAF controls in front of it, API security on its own endpoints, and AI guardrails that inspect what the tools send back, no...

What Makes a Good LLM Agent for Real-World Penetration Testing?

LLM-based agents show promise for automating penetration testing, yet reported performance varies widely across systems and benchmarks. We analyze 28 LLM-based penetration testing systems and evaluate five representative implementations across three benchmarks of increasing complexity. Our analys...