From the course: Leveraging AI for Security Testing
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AI-augmented penetration tests
From the course: Leveraging AI for Security Testing
AI-augmented penetration tests
- [Instructor] I'm a big supporter of documenting processes and procedures, and that's especially true when I run penetration tests. When tapping into generative AI tools to help you with your pen tests, you're likely to get better results if you reference existing penetration testing frameworks. I recommend that you include references to either the Penetration Testing Execution Standard, the PTES, or the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual, OSSTMM, while you're engineering your prompts. As an example, you might use this prompt. I work as a cybersecurity professional. Outline the process I would follow if I were conducting a penetration test. Use the Penetration Testing Execution Standard as the model for that process. This specific prompt illustrates the benefit of leveraging multiple generative AI tools when performing penetration tests. By its very nature, a pen test involves hacking. Ethical hacking, yes, but generative AI tools still struggle with distinguishing the…
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