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Pentesting AWS Security Agent

When cloud providers introduce autonomous AI agents to conduct penetration testing on customer environments, who is responsible when the AI breaks out of scope?

In this episode of the Cloud Security Podcast, Ashish sits down with Richard Fan, an AWS Security Hero, to discuss his research into the AWS Security Agent (recently rebranded as AWS Continuum). Richard shares how he successfully manipulated the agent to bypass AWS guardrails, utilizing internal DNS spoofing and HTTP redirects to trick the AI into attacking out-of-scope, public targets. We discuss why human pentesters easily spot…

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