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Field notes from continuous penetration testing.

What we learn running thousands of automated pentests every week — written by the engineers and researchers who do the work. No marketing voice. No sponsored takes.

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EU data residency: what ‘GDPR-native’ really means.

Every SaaS vendor claims GDPR compliance. This post breaks down what EU data residency means at the infrastructure layer — Cloudflare Workers EU regions, Fly Frankfurt, R2 EU jurisdiction — and the audit evidence each choice produces for ISO 27001 and DORA.

AssurePort engineering team

Why we publish our own pentest reports.

AssurePort publishes its own self-pentest findings in the changelog. Radical transparency on your own vulnerabilities builds more trust than a polished security page — and we explain the responsible-disclosure process we use to do it safely.

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From CVE to fix: how AI agents close findings 6× faster.

When an AI pentest pipeline surfaces a CVE, the clock starts. This post traces the full path from finding to remediation — how AI agents generate language-specific fix code, verify the patch, and update the audit trail in under an hour.

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Next Generation CISO Team — AI vCISO and the future of security ops.

The CISO role is changing. This post maps how AI-assisted security operations — continuous posture monitoring, automated evidence collection, risk scoring — augment lean security teams without replacing human judgement on strategic decisions.

AssurePort engineering team

A real BOLA — how a paywall bypass surfaced in 31 minutes.

Anonymised case study: an AI web pentest found a Broken Object-Level Authorisation paywall bypass via a /status endpoint in 31 minutes. Full curl proof-of-concept, three-line fix, and why pattern-matching scanners missed it for nine months.

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Where AI penetration testing actually fits in your security programme.

A practical map of where AI-driven pentest pipelines plug a real gap — and where they absolutely do not. Drawn from 200+ conversations with security leaders in 2026. Includes the honest stack recommendation for lean teams shipping continuously.

AssurePort engineering team

GDPR for security SaaS — the 2026 reality check.

Seven concrete things every security-tooling vendor needs to get right in 2026: Article 30 RoPA, meaningful consent, Article 32 technical measures, DPA both ways, international transfer mechanisms, retention schedules, and the AI Act shadow over model training clauses.

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How we operate the AssurePort platform — and why we chose the EU edge.

The architecture, the data-residency calls, and why Cloudflare Workers (EU) plus Fly Frankfurt turned out to be the right answer for a security-sensitive workload. An honest summary of the trade-offs we accepted — and the ones we did not.

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Red team vs AI agent: who finds what first.

A side-by-side comparison of 14 engagements where a senior human red team and an AI pentest pipeline both ran against the same target within 72 hours. What each found, missed, and why.

AssurePort engineering team Q3 2026

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