Detectify Unveils Alfred: AI-Driven Security Test Automation

Slice of Technology Team

03/19/2025

Key Highlights:

Detectify introduces Alfred, an AI-driven system that autonomously generates security tests for exploitable CVEs.
Alfred prioritizes threats using the Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) framework.
AI and ethical hacker insights combine for unparalleled AppSec test coverage.
Faster, more accurate security testing reduces false positives and increases protection.
Now available to all Surface Monitoring & Application Scanning customers.

Source: Business Wire

Quotes

“ "We're tapping the power of AI to leverage the ultimate use of this technology - creating a sleepless ethical hacker who is autonomously collecting threat intelligence, prioritizing vulnerabilities, and building payload-based security tests." ”

Rickard Carlsson, CEO at Detectify

Why This Matters:

As cybersecurity threats evolve at an unprecedented pace, traditional security testing methods struggle to keep up. Detectify’s Alfred revolutionizes vulnerability assessments by combining AI-driven automation with human ethical hacking expertise. By autonomously sourcing and testing high-risk CVEs, Alfred dramatically enhances AppSec teams' ability to detect and mitigate real threats before they are exploited, setting a new benchmark for proactive security research.

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