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How an OpenAI Model Escaped its Guardrails
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How an OpenAI Model Escaped its Guardrails

During an internal evaluation with its safety guardrails switched off, an OpenAI model escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face's production systems, again, this time to steal answers to its own benchmark. No one told it to. It decided that on its own.

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Paul Mote
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America’s AI Action Plan Is About Speed: AI Security Needs to Keep Up Perspectives on Security

America’s AI Action Plan Is About Speed: AI Security Needs to Keep Up

America's AI Action Plan puts speed at the center of federal AI policy, reducing regulatory friction and accelerating adoption across government and industry. That same speed expands the AI attack surface just as fast, through new agents, APIs, and tool-calling chains shipped every week. Point-in-time pentests and quarterly assessments cannot keep pace with systems that change that often. AI security testing needs to run continuously and be backed by human-validated evidence.

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Angela Heindl-Schober, CMO at Synack
Angela Heindl-Schober
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The AI Pentesting Platform Checklist for Regulated Enterprises Agentic AI

The AI Pentesting Platform Checklist for Regulated Enterprises

Regulated enterprises evaluating AI pentesting platforms should assess eight capabilities: FedRAMP Moderate authorization or higher, multi-framework compliance support, human-in-the-loop with agentic AI, verified zero-false-positive findings, bidirectional workflow integrations, self-service launch, auditable coverage visibility, and full offensive security platform capabilities. Vendors who can't clearly distinguish their AI from an automated scanner are likely selling exactly that.

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KymberLee Russell, Product Marketing Manager at Synack
KymberLee Russell
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The 2026 State of Vulnerabilities: What the Data Misses, According to Our Red Team Synack Research

The 2026 State of Vulnerabilities: What the Data Misses, According to Our Red Team

Our 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report surfaces what Synack finds in tested customer environments. At a recent webinar, two of our most decorated researchers from the Synack Red Team describe the threat landscape they’re seeing beyond the report findings. Here's what the data shows, what practitioners have experienced, and what your security program should do about the gap.

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Tim Nordvedt
Tim Nordvedt
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