Penetration testing will shift from static snapshots to continuous monitoring as AI automates vulnerability discovery and IoT devices like toasters and fridges expand the attack surface. Organizations can't rely on fixed asset lists anymore.
Machines are going to identify vulnerabilities and then they're going to write the exploits and it's going to be executed across the whole world much quicker. And pair.
That with.
Everything from your toaster to your fridge having an IP address being connected to the Internet. The attack surface is growing and there's fridges and toasters and businesses too. So that attack surface getting just crazy and it's changing and it's morphing. Technology is moving so fast. So in five years from now, you just cannot test things by saying, what.
Are the assets? Where are they? Here's a static list.
Go test. No, you need.
To have a system.
That can dynamically identify what.
Assets are.
Related to that organization when they come and go and then to be testing them as soon as possible. Because those machines, whether it's AI or ML that's identifying and doing the exploitation, it's going to move.
So much faster.
That we have to.
Be ready for that.
