Before Saner, AI successfully exploited the environment in under 40 minutes. After Saner, hours of probing produced zero impact
Mythos, GPT-5.5 and the new generation of AI tools give attackers the ability to map your entire attack surface in minutes, chain vulnerabilities into exploits, and move laterally before your team sees the first alert.
Anthropic introduces Claude Mythos Preview to ~50 partners — AWS, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Palo Alto Networks. A model competitive with top humans at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.
First OpenAI model classified High under its Preparedness Framework. Outperforms every prior GPT model on offensive-security benchmarks.
GPT-5.5 hits 71.4% on Expert-tier cyber tasks against Mythos Preview's 68.6%, and becomes the second model ever to complete a 32-step corporate-network attack range end to end.
Traditional disclosure was already setting records. In 2025, CVE volumes reached a new single-year record, while frontier AI increased vulnerability discovery across open-source projects and partner environments.
The time between disclosure and exploitation has shrunk from months to days. In recent threat data, exploitation has even moved before public disclosure, meaning attackers may already be active by the time enterprises learn what to fix.
AI can find, validate, and chain weaknesses quickly, but enterprise action still depends on triage, approvals, patch testing, deployment windows, and proof of closure.
AI scans SSH, RDP, SMB, SNMP, Telnet, HTTP admin panels, SSL-VPN surfaces, and management planes simultaneously — building a complete attack graph with no human effort.
AI confirms preconditions and reachability of vulnerabilities without launching destructive exploits — validating exactly which CVEs are usable and in what sequence.
I exploits fast; enterprises patch slowly. And patching alone isn't enough. Without hardening the configurations, attackers can breach in. Remediation must prove both.
PREVENT is SecPod's foundational cybersecurity framework. It is a fundamental shift from detect-and-respond to eliminating the conditions that allow attacks to succeed. Built on a single insight: every attacker leverages weaknesses.
Reduce weaknesses and exposure continuously and the equation collapses. PREVENT operationalizes this through continuous visibility, risk prioritization, and automated remediation across endpoints and cloud reducing exposures attackers can exploit.
SecPod researchers handed an AI assistant an unpatched lab — Windows, Debian, Fortigate, pfSense, Cisco, Aruba, Palo Alto — and asked it to attack. Then Saner remediated the environment. The AI attacked again. Here's what changed.
The AI agent chained together exposed services (SSH, RDP, SMB, Telnet, SNMP Public) and found a path through Credential Reuse into the Admin Panel and SSL-VPN, ultimately reaching Root Access. It achieved a real, damaging outcome (root access).
The same AI agent tried the same entry points, but each one is marked with an “x” (blocked/hardened) and the path terminates at “No Path Found”. AI could reach individual exposed services but couldn't chain them into any meaningful outcome.
"Saner made AI spend more time searching and still fail to produce the old impact. The AI kept probing for 3 hours and 40 minutes — and found no path to root access."
SecPod Security Research, June 2026
What Saner Does
Saner goes beyond patching. It continuously closes the misconfigurations, posture gaps, weak controls, and drift that let small issues compound into real breaches — the residual surface AI attackers target after obvious CVEs are gone.
Patch every OS, app, and network device automatically and verify the fix deployed.
Find and fix misconfigurations across your entire estate before attackers use them as a doorway.
Know which vulnerabilities to fix first — ranked by real-world exploitability, not just severity scores.
Confirm fixes hold over time — and catch the moment a change reopens a closed gap.
Extend prevention to cloud workloads, containers, and identities before misconfigurations become exploitable.
Stay continuously mapped to PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and more — with evidence collected automatically.
Find unauthorized devices, rogue apps, and unmanaged cloud instances before attackers turn them into entry points.
Detect unexpected services, open ports, weak settings, and unauthorized changes before they become exploitable gaps.
Advanced AI models can ingest your asset state, map your exploitable services, correlate known CVEs with your installed versions, and plan an attack chain in under an hour. Your only leverage is to remediate security weaknesses before it’s weaponized.
