Three weeks of model-assisted analysis matches a year of manual pen testing

Claim

Palo Alto Networks found that three weeks of vulnerability analysis with frontier cyber models matched a full year of manual penetration testing with broader coverage, while the White House prepared an executive order recruiting labs into national cyber defense without mandatory pre-release testing.

Reported metric: 3 weeks = 1 year

Reporting date: 2026-05-09 (not necessarily the event date)

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