Industry analysis / September 22, 2026
The $155 Million Signal
XBOW’s $120M Series C grew by another $35M. What the funding means for autonomous AI pentesting, competition, pricing and Decima’s regulated-market focus.
Decima Systems / Ideas into practice
Research.
How we think about autonomous security.
What we’re building. What the evidence supports.
Latest perspective / Industry analysis
Define Autonomous.
Every vendor in offensive security uses the word. Almost none of them mean the same thing by it.
XBOW sells full autonomy. Horizon3 advertises that AI never executes exploits. What the independent research says, and four questions that tell a buyer which machine they are purchasing.
October 2, 2026 / 11 min read
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Incident analysis / September 22, 2026
Anatomy of an Autonomous Breach
What the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident reveals about AI agent sandboxing, shared infrastructure, credential boundaries, forensic models and trustworthy audit logs.
Architecture / September 22, 2026
The Autonomous Advantage
Decima’s approach to autonomous AI pentesting: self-hosted models, a Kali-based harness, budget-led testing and evidence built for security and compliance teams.