Interfacing with Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are reshaping cybersecurity, including pentesting. This chapter explores how pentesters can use AI technologies with Bash scripting to enhance their capabilities and streamline workflows.

We’ll start by examining AI fundamentals in pentesting, providing a foundation for understanding how these technologies apply to your work. You’ll learn about relevant AI techniques and tools and how to integrate them into your existing processes. We’ll then discuss the ethical considerations of using AI in pentesting. This is important for ensuring the responsible use of these tools. The chapter then moves on to practical applications. You’ll learn how to use Bash scripts to automate data analysis with AI, processing large volumes of pentest data and feeding it into AI models for analysis. We’ll explore AI-assisted vulnerability identification, showing you how to interface...