# 🤖 Day 25: Explore AI-driven security testing and share potential use cases **URL:** \ **Category:** 30 Days of Testing\ **Tags:** 30-days-of-testing, security, ai, 30-days-of-ai-in-testing\ **Created:** [25 March 2024 00:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/day-25-explore-ai-driven-security-testing-and-share-potential-use-cases/75365 "2024-03-25T00:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
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Day 25 is all about **Security Testing**. If you’ve ever tried your hand at Application Security Testing, you’ll know that it’s a complex and evolving topic that usually requires in-depth technical knowledge. Various tools exist to make running security tests and audits easier, but understanding their output can be challenging. Today we want to explore whether AI can make Security Testing more accessible. ### Task Steps You have two options for today: #### Option 1: If you want to evaluate an AI empowered Security Testing tool (or already use one). For this option, the tasks are: - **Choose your tool:** Research security testing tools that claim to be AI empowered and choose one to evaluate. - **Run the tool against a target system:** Timebox this activity to about 30 mins and configure and run the tool against a target system of your choice: - _ **Remember, you must have permission to run security test against the target.** _ - How easy was it to set up the testing? - Do you understand what is being tested for? - **Review the output:** Review any issues that the tool found and consider: - What information did the tool provide about any potential vulnerabilities found? Was it understandable? - Do you have an understanding of what was checked by the tool? #### Option 2: You don’t want to (or can’t) install security tools. For this option the tasks are: - **Read an introductory article on AI-driven Security Testing** : Find an introductory article that discusses AI Driven Security Testing and consider its impact on Software Testing Teams - **What are the barriers to effective Security Testing within your team?** Think about security testing in your context and the current challenges and barriers to you adopting Security Testing as part of your day to day testing activities. - **What would an AI Security Testing Tool do for your team?** What could a (real or hypothetical) AI empowered tool provide that would eliminate or reduce the barriers within your team to adopting Security Testing? - **Is Security Testing an appropriate use for AI?** Based on what you have learned about AI and AI in Testing consider whether delegating Security Testing to an AI empowered tool is appropriate. #### Share Your Findings Whether you choose option 1 or 2, consider sharing your findings with the community. You might share: - Which option you chose. - Your insights from this exercise. - Whether you think Security Testing is an area that AI can effectively support and improve. - The risks and opportunities for AI supported Security Testing within your team. ### Why Take Part - **Find new ways to find important issues:** Security Testing tools are notoriously difficult to learn and use effectively, and understanding the outputs often requires a high degree of domain knowledge. Taking part in this challenge allows you to explore new ways of tackling security testing that leverages AI to simplify the usage of these tools and provide more explainable outputs. **🚀 [Level up your learning experience. Go Pro!](https://www.ministryoftesting.com/membership?utm_campaign=30dotAI&utm_medium=web&utm_source=club)** --- _[View the full topic](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/day-25-explore-ai-driven-security-testing-and-share-potential-use-cases/75365)._