Exploring the architecture of offensive/defensive security agents, focusing on the RAPTOR framework for recursive penetration testing.
Traditional penetration testing is a manual, high-skill process. Security researchers spend hours mapping attack surfaces, identifying vulnerabilities, and crafting exploits. Autonomous Security Agents aim to automate this loop. This lesson examines RAPTOR (Recursive Autonomous Penetration Testing and Observation Robot), a framework that combines agentic workflows with traditional security tools to perform deep security research.