Will AI Make Traditional Penetration Testing Obsolete?

In this episode of Cyber Conversations, Katie sits down with Adam Lundqvist, Founder of SQUR, to discuss how AI is reshaping penetration testing, vulnerability management, and application security.

After spending more than two decades in software and cybersecurity, Adam recognised a growing challenge: organisations are developing software faster than ever, but security testing hasn't kept pace.

Traditional penetration testing can be expensive, time-consuming, and often outdated by the time the final report lands on a security team's desk.

So what comes next?

Adam shares why he believes autonomous penetration testing and automated remediation will become a critical part of the future security stack.

Topics covered include:

🔹 Why traditional penetration testing is struggling to keep up with modern development

🔹 The growing attack surface created by APIs and web applications

🔹 How AI is changing both cyberattacks and cyber defence

🔹 Why fixing vulnerabilities is often harder than finding them

🔹 The future of autonomous penetration testing

🔹 How automated remediation could transform vulnerability management

🔹 The opportunities and risks created by increasingly powerful AI models

🔹 What security leaders should be prioritising today

If you're interested in application security, AI, vulnerability management, or the future of offensive security, this is a conversation you won't want to miss.