Fight Fire With Fire: AI Pentesting in 30 Minutes
This is a free teaser session for the workshop, Supercharging Your Pentesting With AI on 30 September 2026.
Instructor
Lucas Romano is the Manager of Security Operations at Cequence where he leads the SOC and also is a Security Researcher for the Synack Red Team. He's worked in every role from threat intelligence at the National Security Agency to naval cryptology to being the founding offensive security engineer of an agentic penetration testing company. He's passionate about teaching fellow practitioners the secrets of the trade and growing everyone to a higher level.
Career highlights
Manager of the Security Operations Center at Cequence
Founding Offensive Security Engineer at Casco
Lead Threat Intelligent Analyst at National Security Agency
Who this lightning lesson is for
Anyone curious about how AI can be utilised to launch autonomous security assessments whether it be a penetration test, review of source code, etc.
What you'll learn
Modern day problems require modern day solutions, and a big problem is security changes faster than we can say "TryHackMe is cool". Novel attacks are seen everyday, and misconfigurations are being exploited at a scale that's never been seen before. What took 10 people 160 hours, now takes 1 person 5 hours.
We're going to cover how, and more importantly why, AI is and should be used to perform all sorts of security testing. From a traditional web application penetration test, to automating a bug bounty program, to continual testing loops, we'll get into it all.
The key concepts you'll learn are
- The fundamental concepts of why AI should be used in security testing and the impact it has
- What tools are used to make AI work more efficiently in security tests
- How you can weave AI into your security testing workflow
Want the hands-on version?
This lightning lesson is the concept layer. The full Supercharging Your Pentesting With AI workshop is where you go deep: five hours of live hands-on instruction, custom-built labs with all tools and AI access provided, a week of lab access after the session, an optional CTF with a prize for the winner, and a certificate of participation with CEP credits.