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Shikhil Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of Astra Security – Interview Series
- Shikhil Sharma is the Founder of Astra Security – a continuous pentesting platform, with a background in consulting various businesses, startups, and banks on cybersecurity.
- Astra Security recently secured $2.7 million funding to innovate cybersecurity with AI-Driven pentesting, aiming to bridge the gaps in traditional pentesting.
- Astra Security's approach focuses on continuous offensive pentesting, addressing the shortcomings of traditional pentesting, providing actionable insights and collaboration.
- The platform targets SMEs, offering user-friendly features, automation, and integration into CI/CD pipelines for real-time alerts and guided remediation.
- Astra's AI-driven offensive security engine scans infrastructure, simulates attacks, and provides real-time remediation to counter evolving cyber threats.
- Continuous pentesting by Astra Security ensures proactive security measures, with AI automation and expert validation reducing risk exposure for businesses.
- Astra identifies over 200,000 vulnerabilities monthly, including common issues like injection attacks and broken access controls, emphasizing the need for continuous security monitoring.
- Human security researchers at Astra collaborate with AI automation to enhance security assessments by providing contextual insights and validation.
- Astra Security scans cloud environments, APIs, and identities to detect misconfigurations and real-world attack vectors, ensuring secure scaling for modern SaaS and cloud infrastructures.
- Shikhil Sharma's bug bounty journey highlights critical vulnerability discoveries, emphasizing responsible disclosure for patching before exploitation.
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