Amazon’s latest AI capabilities bring on-demand penetration testing through the AWS Security Agent, alongside the AWS DevOps Agent.
“These agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from 2-6 weeks to 1-2 days. AWS DevOps agent gives teams 3–5x faster incident resolution so they can spend less time on incident resolution and more time innovating”, said Swami Sivasubramanian, VP, AI Amazon Web Services.
AWS Security Agent
AWS Security Agent enables on-demand penetration testing for applications, addressing gaps created by periodic testing limited by time and cost.
The tool identifies vulnerabilities, attempts exploitation using targeted payloads and attack chains, and verifies whether they pose security risks. By analysing source code, architecture diagrams and documentation, it maps how weaknesses connect and form higher-severity attack paths that may be missed by traditional…
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