In this episode of Business of Cybersecurity, I speak with Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt, about AI powered vulnerability discovery, the widening remediation gap, continuous pentesting, legacy application risk, and the future of cybersecurity careers.

Advanced security models such as Mythos can gather and apply techniques published across security research, Black Hat, DEF CON, and other industry sources. Gunter says this makes them particularly effective at reviewing large code bases and trying known attack methods against potential targets.

The result is faster vulnerability discovery, but finding additional weaknesses does not automatically make a company safer. Cobalt’s 2026 State of Pentesting Report found AI and LLM tests produced high risk findings at 2.7 times the rate of its wider data set. According to Cobalt, 32% of AI and LL ...