Security veteran: traditional tooling is obsolete, run an agentic hacker against your own systems
Kyrannio · x · 2026-11-15
Security practitioner orcaman argues that traditional app/infra security tooling (PANW, Wiz, Snyk, etc.) is losing relevance: what matters now is exploitable vulnerabilities, and the only way to find and fix them is to run an agentic hacker against your own systems — before attackers do it for you.
His suggested playbook:
- Email the big labs and pay for their model/service to stay ahead of AI-armed attackers;
- Open models like GLM can supplement, but they surface different vulns, so you likely need both.
The take is intentionally provocative, but the core claim — agentic attack tooling is reshaping offense-defense parity, so defenders should proactively run agent red teams — is a notable industry shift worth discussing.
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