SafeBreach to Unveil New AI Agent Capabilities, Showcase Anvilogic Integration, and Share Original Research in Three Talks Across Black Hat USA 2026 and DEF CON 34

New AI agent capabilities democratize enterprise-grade exposure management for security teams of any size, a two-way Anvilogic integration closes the loop between validated findings and deployed detections, and SafeBreach Labs research exposes critical flaws in legacy Linux services and Microsoft's Python in Excel feature.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SafeBreach, the leader in enterprise exposure validation, today announced it will showcase new functionality for its three AI agents built to support the SafeBreach CTEM Platform, alongside a new integration with Anvilogic and original research from the SafeBreach Labs team, as part of its exhibition at Black Hat USA 2026 and DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas from August 1-9.

New Functionality of Three Purpose-Built AI Agents Seeks to Democratize Fortune-100-Grade Exposure Management

The debut of new capabilities within the Analyst, Validation, and SecOps agents marks the next phase of the SafeBreach CTEM Platform and reflects the company's commitment to democratizing Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) for security teams of every size. The three agents—which are orchestrated by the SafeBreach Helm AI infrastructure layer of the platform—address a distinct gap in exposure management to help organizations discover exposures that truly matter, validate both enterprise and AI attack surfaces against those exposures, and turn proven findings into deployed defenses, all through a single natural-language interface. The result is measurable risk reduction at enterprise scale, grounded in more than 12 years of adversarial exposure validation (AEV) and 33,000+ real attack simulations in the SafeBreach Hacker's Playbook™.

• Analyst Agent: Exposure Management Expertise for All. The SafeBreach Analyst Agent, responsible for continuously correlating exposure data across internal and external attack surfaces, now integrates directly with an organization's Vulnerability Management (VM) and External Attack Surface Management (EASM) tools and applies distilled, de-identified best practices from the world's most mature security programs to identify the exposures that actually matter. The agent recommends simulator positioning, selects test scenarios based on an organization's threat profile, pinpoints where attacks are stopped across the security stack, and prioritizes remediation where it will measurably reduce exposure. For CISOs, the result is Fortune-100-grade expertise without a Fortune-100 SOC—and a clear, board-ready view of risk reduction over time.
• Validation Agent: Adversarial Exposure Validation for the AI Attack Surface. The SafeBreach Validation Agent, responsible for continuously testing security defenses against real-world attacker behavior, now extends SafeBreach's adversarial exposure validation to the large language model (LLM) applications organizations are increasingly deploying. Mapped to the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, it simulates real attacks across four categories, including malicious general actions, malicious cyber actions, data exfiltration, and system prompt leakage. This functionality is now available for AWS Bedrock, with Azure OpenAI coverage to follow. As boards push AI adoption faster than most security teams can secure it, the SafeBreach Validation Agent gives CISOs evidence, rather than assumptions, about where their deployed AI tools are exposed and which guardrails close the gap.
• SecOps Agent: Continuous Validation for the AI SOC. The SafeBreach SecOps Agent, responsible for transforming validated exposures into actionable remediation workflows, validates both human- and AI-generated detection-engineering rules against real adversary behavior, confirming they fire as intended and surfacing detection drift the moment one stops working. Validated findings can now be routed directly to Anvilogic—the Agentic SecOps platform—via a new two-way integration in which Anvilogic generates and deploys production-ready detections, closing the gap between a proven finding and a working defense without a manual hand-off.

Anvilogic Integration Connects Attack Simulation, Detection Engineering, and Continuous Validation in One AI-Powered, Closed-Loop Workflow

SafeBreach will showcase a new, two-way integration with the Anvilogic platform that connects the SafeBreach CTEM Platform's real-world attack simulation results directly to Anvilogic Blueprints, an agentic automation layer that uses AI agents to autonomously run analyst functions across onboarding, detection, triage, investigation, and any other SOC workflow. When a SafeBreach attack simulation identifies a control gap, it automatically triggers Blueprints to convert a SafeBreach finding into a high-fidelity production detection. The Blueprints review the findings, checks which existing detections already fire on the technique, and identifies where a real gap remains. From there, Blueprints creates, tests, and tunes a new detection for deployment, subject to a human approval gate. The SafeBreach CTEM Platform then re-runs the simulation to confirm that the detection effectively identifies the attack. The loop runs daily, providing continuous board-ready, audit-grade evidence that identified gaps remain closed over time. As a result, security teams experience a unified workflow that accelerates detection maturity and measurably reduces risk, without adding team headcount.

SafeBreach Labs Presents Original Research at Three Sessions

SafeBreach Labs Security Researcher Ron Ben Yizhak will present two pieces of original research across three sessions at Black Hat USA 2026 and DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas, marking the team's eighth consecutive year of earning speaking slots at both conferences simultaneously.

• Forgotten but Not Gone: Unauthenticated RCEs and LPEs in Legacy Linux Services
  • At Black Hat USA on Wednesday, August 5 at 4:30 pm PT in Jasmine, Level 3
  • At DEF CON on Saturday, August 8 at 11:00 am PT in LVCC - L1 - Exhibit Hall West 3 - 906
  • This research uncovers three severe, decades-old vulnerabilities hiding in two very widely deployed and common Linux services: Telnet and Samba. The findings reinforce a message CISOs are increasingly acting on: exposure validation has to cover the full environment, not just what's newest.

• From Square Root to /root: Escalating Privileges in Azure Containers with Python in Excel
  • At DEF CON on Friday, August 7 at 10:00 am PT in LVCC - L1 - Exhibit Hall West 3 - 903
  • This research reverse-engineers the isolated Azure container environment behind Microsoft's Python in Excel feature and exploits the file upload mechanism to escalate privileges from an unprivileged user to root. The findings underscore how cloud isolation claims and productivity features for modern data analysis need the same security scrutiny as any other trust boundary.

Visit SafeBreach at Black Hat USA 2026

SafeBreach product experts will be available at booth #1364 from August 1-6 to demonstrate the Analyst, Validation, and SecOps Agents, as well as the Anvilogic integration. To schedule a time to connect in advance, visit safebreach.com/black-hat-usa-2026/.

About SafeBreach

SafeBreach is on a mission to help organizations have certainty in their security. Long trusted as the global leader in adversarial exposure validation (AEV), SafeBreach empowers organizations to take command of risk by operationalizing the full CTEM lifecycle with the SafeBreach CTEM Platform. Powered by the SafeBreach Helm AI infrastructure layer and grounded in the award-winning SafeBreach Exposure Validation Platform, the SafeBreach CTEM Platform is the first enterprise-grade, closed-loop solution designed to move organizations beyond siloed security activities toward a continuous, intelligence-driven exposure management program. Backed by world-renowned threat researchers and an unrivaled customer success team, SafeBreach provides the capabilities enterprises need to holistically understand threat exposure, make data-driven decisions that reduce risk, and measurably improve cyber resilience—safely and at scale. To learn more about SafeBreach, visit www.safebreach.com.