Team Research blog
The IncludeSec team explores the practical considerations of AI-assisted source code analysis. Observing results produced with frontier vs locally-hosted models, various harness orchestration designs, and a list of different language frameworks provided us with meaningful insights into how the modern pentester should be using AI to produce higher quality results (but not necessarily in less time!)
Are you using Terraform to build or configure your AWS environment? You might be surprised by configuration settings that introduce vulnerabilities by default, particularly if you’re already familiar with using the AWS or other cloud provider interfaces for asset creation. This post focuses on the slowly growing security divide of AWS asset security settings when created by the Terraform provider vs the AWS UI.
The Include Security team takes a foray into the world of audio production equipment in our latest blog post. We look under the hood of a professional-grade audio mixer to explore its security profile, consider how its functionality could be leveraged by an attacker in a real world setting, and develop a proof-of-concept exploit to demonstrate quick n’ easy privilege escalation.
In this post we consider how to think about the attack surface of applications leveraging LLMs and how that impacts the scoping process when assessing those applications. We discuss why scoping matters, important points to consider when mapping out the LLM-associated attack surface, and conclude with architectural tips for developers implementing LLMs within their applications.
This month’s post discusses pentest reports and how the various audiences that consume them sometimes misinterpret what they mean. We cover why findings in a report are not a sign of failure, why “clean” reports aren’t always good news, and why it may not be necessary to fix every single identified vulnerability. The post concludes with a few takeaways about how the information in a pentest report helps inform the reader about the report subject’s security posture.