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Pentesting with AI: What Actually Works in 2026
A working tour of AI in the pentester's day: which tasks to hand to a model, the prompts and guardrails that hold up, where it wastes your time, and how to keep proof-of-exploit honest. Real workflow, not slideware.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM (America/Chicago) · 60 min

Speakers

Rishitha Reddy
Senior Penetration Testing Engineer, Walmart Global Tech
Rishitha Reddy is a Senior Penetration Testing Engineer with deep expertise in modern application security, including web, mobile, API, and AI/LLM ecosystems. Her work focuses on uncovering complex vulnerabilities, driving high-impact remediation, and shaping secure-by-design practices across the organization. Beyond her technical work, Rishitha is a style curator and an emotive driving enthusiast.

Sandeep Kamble
Founder & CTO, SecureLayer7
Started SecureLayer7 in 2012. Still drops into engagements when an exploit needs a second pair of hands.

Prateek Bhajanka
CEO & Chief Field CISO, Field CISO Advisory Services
Prateek Bhajanka is CEO and Chief Field CISO at Field CISO Advisory Services, and a former Gartner analyst and Magic Quadrant author. He advises global organizations on modernizing security programs, ransomware defense, cost optimization and platform consolidation, and works with security vendors on positioning, go-to-market and analyst relations. A regular speaker at global security forums, his expertise spans endpoint security, CTEM, CNAPP, DFIR, XDR, SOC and managed services.