Automate the 85%: Engineering Notes from an Autonomous Pentest Platform
Published on sigoverrun.com — April 2026 1. Introduction: The Operator Leverage Thesis A skilled penetration tester spends roughly 85% of their engagement time on tasks that are procedurally deterministic: running port scans, fingerprinting services, testing default credentials, crawling web applications, correlating CVEs against discovered software versions. The remaining 15% — lateral…