# **Build or Buy AI Pentesting? What the POC Doesn’t Tell You**

## Hear directly from Synack customer Dow about why a successful AI pentesting POC is only the beginning, and what it takes to deliver reliable, validated security outcomes at enterprise scale.

WEBINAR \| JULY 30, 2026 \| 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET

• 30 Minutes• Customer Fireside Chat• No Sales Pitch

[G2 Summer 2026 Leader and Enterprise Leader in Penetration Testing.](/content/press-releases/synack-named-leader-g2-grid-report-penetration-testing-summer-2026/index.html)

Should you build your own AI pentesting solution?

Every new frontier model release brings fresh pressure to build internal AI pentesting tools. Your engineers are capable, the APIs are available, and the first proof of concept looks genuinely impressive. So why buy? It's a fair question and it deserves a better answer than a sales pitch.

Join Dan Lacher, Dow's Cybersecurity Engineering Team Leader, Mark Kuhr, Synack's Co-Founder & CTO, and Tim Nordvedt, Solutions Architect at Synack, for an unfiltered conversation about both sides of the decision: the real engineering tradeoffs, the costs nobody budgets for, and what it actually takes to operationalize AI pentesting at scale.

You'll learn:

- Why a working POC isn't the same as a dependable security control, and what bridges the gap
- The hidden costs that blow up DIY builds: token spend, model drift, staffing, and compliance gaps
- Why false positives in AI pentesting are an architectural problem, not a tuning problem
- What human oversight looks like in practice for autonomous offensive tooling
- The questions to ask before you commit a year of engineering time, and where building still makes sense

## Speakers

**Dan Lacher** [in](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlacher/)

Cybersecurity Engineering Team Leader, Dow

**Mark Kuhr, Ph.D.** [in](https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkuhr/)

Co-Founder & CTO, Synack

**Tim Nordvedt** [in](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-nordvedt-58250115b/)

Solutions Architect, Synack

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