Name: How to Automate Penetration Testing in 2025
Start: 2025-02-27T14:00:00Z
End: 2025-02-27T14:00:56.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4

Stay ahead of cyber threats with Hadrian’s BrightTALK webinar channel. Our expert-led fireside chats dive into the latest trends in External Attack Surface Management, giving you a hacker’s perspective on securing your digital footprint. Tune in for real-world insights, strategies, and best practices to help your security team stay proactive and scalable.

2026 will be the year AI fundamentally changes the rules of cybersecurity. As attackers automate faster and defenders adapt smarter, the balance of power is shifting.

Join Adam LeWinter and Niels Schweisshelm on November 25 for a forward-looking session on how AI is shaping attacker behavior, defensive strategy, and the tools that define both. They’ll share key trends for the year ahead. From autonomous threat discovery to agentic defense systems, they will discuss what these mean for CISOs building resilience in an AI-driven world.

You don’t want to miss this session if you want to start 2026 prepared for what’s coming next for proactive security.

Join us to uncover how AI will redefine your threat landscape and how to stay ahead of it!

AI and the Future of Cyber Offense and Defense

Introducing the 24/7 pentester! With agentic AI, continuous exposure validation is possible.

Join Klaas Meinke and Niels Schwiesshelm on September 11, 2025, for a session on the new era of offensive security. We'll unveil how Hadrian's agentic AI transforms traditional penetration testing into a continuous, intelligent, and scalable process. See a live demo of our agentic AI autonomously discovering and exploiting exposures in real-time.

This session is for security leaders looking to modernize their offensive capabilities and reduce reliance on manual pentests.

Agentic AI is redefining Offensive Security

In manufacturing, downtime is lost time and money. Learn how to proactively prevent a breach that could halt your production when you join Hadrian’s Alex Wells, Head of Product Marketing, and Muneeb Zafar, Solutions Architect. They will reveal how to cut through the noise and proactively secure your manufacturing operations.

This webinar will show you how to: 
- Identify your real, exploitable external attack surface, including shadow IT and OT/IoT blind spots. 
- Use AI-driven offensive security to automate exposure validation, ensuring all your teams are working at maximum efficiency. 
- Ensure uninterrupted operations by focusing on proactive prevention and rapid remediation of threats that truly matter.

Learn how to shift from reactive firefighting to strategic threat exposure management, keeping your factories running safely and efficiently.

Keep factories running: Prioritizing exploitable exposures for uninterrupted operations

The time to exploit new vulnerabilities shrank to just 4 days in 2024. Yet most organizations still measure response in days, weeks, or even months. Traditional tools like static scanners and pentests can't keep up. Join us to discover how Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) transforms external threat detection from a slow, noisy process into a fast, targeted response machine.

Learn why speed is the new metric—and how you can close the gap between breach and response before it's too late. Join us to discover how Adversarial Exposure Validation (AEV) flips the script by emulating real-world attacker techniques. 

What You’ll Learn:
- Why Traditional Tools Can’t See the Full Picture: Understand how scanners, pentests, and asset inventories fail to scope the attack surface
- How AEV Enables Proactive Security: See how AEV emulates real attackers, replicates their recon, and flags weaknesses before they're exploited.
- How to Shrink Your Response Window: Learn how to integrate AEV with your CTEM program, reduce time to response (MTTR), and arm your team with the insights they need—before the damage is done.

Think Like an Attacker: How Automated Attacker Emulation Cuts Response Time from Days to Minutes

Most security teams are stuck in a reactive loop—firefighting threats as they emerge rather than anticipating and mitigating them before they strike. But what if you could flip the script?

Join Howard Holton, CTO of GigaOm, and Prash Somaiya, CTO of Hadrian, for an in-depth discussion on shifting from reactive security to a proactive defense strategy. Learn how understanding your attack surface empowers you to predict, prevent, and neutralize threats before hackers exploit them.

Don’t wait for the next breach—get ahead of the game. Register now!

Going From Reactive To Proactive; Understanding How You Could Be Attacked First

Wenn Unternehmen wachsen – sowohl organisch als auch durch Akquisitionen – vergrößert sich ihre Angriffsfläche. Das wiederum gestaltet die Sicherheitsabläufe zunehmend komplexer. (Die Sicherheitsabläufe werden dadurch komplexer). Siemens Energy stand vor der Herausforderung, einen vielfältigen und sich stetig weiterentwickelnden digitalen Fußabdruck zu verwalten und gleichzeitig eine effiziente Risikopriorisierung und -beseitigung über mehrere Technologien hinweg sicherzustellen.

In diesem Webinar erfahren Sie, wie Siemens Energy diese Herausforderungen mithilfe der offensiven Sicherheitsplattform von Hadrian gemeistert hat. Finden Sie heraus, wie das Unternehmen Echtzeit-Transparenz erlangt, sein Risikomanagement optimiert und die komplexen Sicherheitsanforderungen über ihre weitläufige Angriffsfläche hinweg reduziert hat.

Wichtigste Erkenntnisse:
● Verwaltung wachsender Angriffsflächen: Erfahren Sie, wie Siemens Energy den Schutz einer wachsenden Angriffsfläche erfolgreich bewältigt hat – trotz organischem Wachstum und Übernahmen.
● Risikopriorisierung über verschiedene Technologien hinweg: Entdecken Sie, wie sie (Siemens Energy) das Exposure Management über diverse Tech-Stacks hinweg optimiert haben, um die kritischsten Bedrohungen zuerst zu adressieren.
● Erkenntnisse aus der Sicherheitsentwicklung von Siemens Energy: Finden Sie heraus, welche Erfahrungen das Unternehmen mit Hadrian gemacht hat und wie es dazu beigetragen hat, mehr Transparenz zu gewinnen, Remediation-Prozesse zu verbessern und die Komplexität der IT-Sicherheit zu reduzieren.

Wenn Ihr Unternehmen mit fragmentiertem Asset-Management oder der Priorisierung von Risiken in einer komplexen Infrastruktur zu kämpfen hat, bietet dieses Webinar wertvolle Einblicke, um Ihre Sicherheitsabläufe effizienter zu gestalten.

Vereinfachung der Sicherheitsabläufe: Wie Siemens Energy sein Exposure Management optimiert hat

Participez à ce webinaire pour découvrir comment CAPFM a transformé son approche de la gestion des menaces externes grâce à des fonctionnalités de gestion des actifs et de contrôle d'accès en temps réel, permettant à 15 équipes de bénéficier d'une visibilité et d'une responsabilité personnalisées pour plus de 5 000 actifs. Si votre organisation est confrontée à une gestion fragmentée des actifs, à l'informatique parallèle ou à des menaces externes dynamiques, cette session montrera comment l'accès basé sur les rôles peut constituer un avantage concurrentiel vital pour rester sécurisé et efficace.

Points clés:

- Comprendre comment CAPFM a utilisé des contrôles d'accès basés sur les rôles pour responsabiliser 15 équipes, en rationalisant la gestion et la propriété des actifs.
- Explorer l'importance d'un suivi centralisé des vulnérabilités et d'une priorisation basée sur les risques pour traiter rapidement les menaces critiques.
- Apprendre comment la visibilité en temps réel de plus de 5 000 actifs, y compris l'informatique cachée et fantôme, a permis de réduire les angles morts et d'améliorer l'efficacité opérationnelle.
- comprendre pourquoi l'accès basé sur les rôles est une capacité qui change la donne pour les organisations qui gèrent des surfaces d'attaque complexes.

Renforcer la sécurité : Comment le Crédit Agricole a réduit les cyber-risques avec des contrôles d'accès par rôle

CISOs are under growing pressure as economic challenges, aggressive adversaries, and operational issues converge. Expanding attack surfaces, alert fatigue and staffing shortages exacerbate these difficulties, prompting a closer look at budgets and resource allocation. In this environment, should organizations consider automating penetration testing? If so, how can they effectively implement it?

Join Niels Schweisshelm and Alex Wells as they explore why automated penetration testing has become an essential part of security operations.

How to Automate Penetration Testing in 2025

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