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How Our AI Reached the HackerOne Top 3 and What We Learned

90 days on live bug bounty programs. 204 valid reports. Top 3 across multiple HackerOne leaderboards, using AI agents. Bikash Barai shares what the experiment revealed about the current capabilities and limitations of AI pentesting agents.

  • Where can AI agents already outperform experienced human researchers?
  • Where do humans still win, and why?
  • What matters more in AI pentesting: the model, the agent, or the harness around it?

When

Thursday, February 18, 2027

9:00 PM IST · 11:30 AM ET · 7:30 PM GST

Speaker

Bikash Barai

Founder & CEO, FireCompass

Format

Live, 20 minutes

One sharp topic, with time for your questions

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Who you will be hearing from

Bikash Barai

Bikash Barai

Founder & CEO, FireCompass

Serial security entrepreneur with multiple USPTO patents in network security. Recognised in Fortune's 40-under-40 and a speaker at RSA Conference and TEDx. Earlier founded iViZ, the first company to take penetration testing to the cloud, later acquired by Synopsys.

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