Agent attacks could displace SOC 2 with whitehat agent-swarm pentest certifications
pzakin · x · 2026-10-30
RT from @danlovesproofs: in the "Black October" era of AI agent attacks, new SaaS products face mounting FUD, and SOC 2 has been "a polite fiction" — it can't answer the question buyers actually care about: "will this vendor get hacked by an agent swarm tomorrow?"
The proposed opportunity: a new certification built on whitehat agent swarms. A trusted tester throws a sophisticated agent swarm at a vendor for a week — hacking infrastructure, phishing employees — and issues a report on how they fared. The pitch is an org-wide pentest that simulates and evolves with the actual threat, displacing checkbox compliance entirely.
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