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AI made attackers smarter. Now it’s giving mid-market companies a fighting chance

AI-powered attackers compress exploit timelines from months to days. Mid-market companies are now using autonomous penetration testing to keep pace.

Reporting by SiliconAngle 1 min brief
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Why it matters

As AI agents accelerate both attack and defense capabilities, autonomous security testing is becoming table-stakes infrastructure for mid-market companies competing against AI-augmented threats. This shifts cybersecurity from reactive to predictive.

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  1. AI-powered attackers compressing vulnerability-to-exploitation timelines from months to days

  2. Autonomous penetration testing emerging as critical discipline

  3. Attack surface expansion outpacing manual security assessment capacity

  4. Mid-market companies adopting AI-driven defense tools as competitive necessity

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Publisher excerpt: The rise of intelligent digital workers and autonomous AI agents is compounding an already urgent cybersecurity challenge: attack surfaces expanding faster than security teams can manually assess them. That pressure is exactly why autonomous penetration testing is emerging as a critical discipline.…
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