May 8, 2026 ·
Why AI pentesting deserves its own certification
## The AI threat surface is structurally different Most pentest certifications were designed before tool-using agents existed. AIPentestX assumes the systems under test reason, plan, and call APIs. ## What we test for - Prompt injection that bypasses tool guardrails - RAG poisoning at ingestion time - Agent abuse via misaligned tool-call schemas - Output handler injection (XSS via LLM-generated markup) - Supply-chain risk in published model weights Every domain is exercised in the proctored exam *and* in the hands-on lab — you can't pass on theory alone.
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