Synack Adds AI Agent to Enable Continuous Penetration Testing
Security Boulevard, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Synack has made available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that cybersecurity researchers can use to automate a wide range of penetration testing tasks.
Company CTO Mark Kuhr said the Sara AI Pentesting agent has been trained using the metadata of techniques that have been uncovered by freelance security researchers who use the Synack penetration-as-a-service (PTaaS) platform. In effect, Sara augments any red team that has been tasked with discovering vulnerabilities in an IT environment, said Kuhr.
Fundamentally, Sara AI makes it simpler to surface classes of vulnerabilities such as broken access controls, authentication weaknesses, injection flaws, and exposed credentials to enable human researchers to focus more time and effort on identifying more critical vulnerabilities, added Kuhr.