Cobalt has announced the findings of its second annual Cobalt AI and Pentesting Pulse Report 2026. The research, which evaluated 455 cybersecurity professionals, revealed that the percentage of organizations that rely entirely on AI automation for testing needs plummeted from 29% to 9% from last year, with 47% now preferring a hybrid testing model.
The 22 point surge in support for the hybrid model, where human expertise supports AI testing, stems directly from the 78% of organizations that experienced fully automated scanning tools missing critical vulnerabilities and returning false negatives. Despite these gaps, security teams show an increasing willingness to automate testing for non-critical assets, with the share favoring automation for low-risk environments rising 22 points to 47%.
You can read the research here: https://resource.cobalt.io/ai-pentesting-pulse-report-2026-tyd
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78% of Security Teams Experience Critical False Negatives From Automated Scanning Tools Says Colbalt
Cobalt has announced the findings of its second annual Cobalt AI and Pentesting Pulse Report 2026. The research, which evaluated 455 cybersecurity professionals, revealed that the percentage of organizations that rely entirely on AI automation for testing needs plummeted from 29% to 9% from last year, with 47% now preferring a hybrid testing model.
The 22 point surge in support for the hybrid model, where human expertise supports AI testing, stems directly from the 78% of organizations that experienced fully automated scanning tools missing critical vulnerabilities and returning false negatives. Despite these gaps, security teams show an increasing willingness to automate testing for non-critical assets, with the share favoring automation for low-risk environments rising 22 points to 47%.
You can read the research here: https://resource.cobalt.io/ai-pentesting-pulse-report-2026-tyd
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