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bveiseh

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founder of mindfort
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bveiseh··on Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting
Thanks so much.

Great question, it is not required but we recommend it. If you don't include the source code, it would be black box. The agents won't know what the app looks like from the other side.

The agents identify vulns using known attack patterns, novel techniques, and threat intelligence.

bveiseh··on Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting
Thanks so much.

We want to solve the entire vulnerability lifecycle problem not just finding zero days. MindFort works from detection, validation, triage/scoring, all the way to patching the vulnerability. While we are starting with web app, we plan to expand to the rest of the attack surface soon.

bveiseh··on Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting
Yup as mentioned, we do the TXT verification of the domain. We also don't offer self service sign up, so we are able to screen customers ahead of time and regularly monitor for any bad behavior.
bveiseh··on Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting
It depends on the size of your attack surface, complexity of the application, and frequency of assessments, so for now we are working out custom agreements with each customer based on these factors.
bveiseh··on Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting
So you would point it to any web app available over the internet. There is an option to have a private deployment in your VPC to test applications that are not exposed to the internet. You can also schedule assessments so that the system runs at a regular interval (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, etc)
bveiseh··on Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting
Appreciate it!

The agents will hone in on a potential vulnerability by looking at different signals during its testing, and then build a POC to validate it based on the context. We don't have any data to share publicly yet but we are working on releasing benchmarks soon.

Everything runs in a private VPC and data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We have zero data retention agreements with our vendors, and we do offer single tenant and private cloud deployments for customers. We don't retain any customer code once we finish processing it, only the vulnerability data. We are also in process of receiving our SOC 2.

Patches are not auto applied. We can either open up a PR for human review or can add the necessary changes to a Linear/Jira ticket. We have the ability schedule assessments in our platform, and are working on a way to integrate more deeply with CI/CD.

bveiseh··on Launch HN: MindFort (YC X25) – AI agents for continuous pentesting
Thanks so much!

In regards to the scale, we absolutely can assess at that scale, but it would require quite a large enterprise contract upfront, as we would need to get the required capacity from our providers.

The system is designed to safely test exploitation, and not perform destructive testing. It will traverse as far as it can, but it won't break anything along the way.

bveiseh··on Trying to remember the name of a startup plz help
No, similar. It’s like fly or railway. But you can literally deploy a single functional line of code right to a serverless cloud. It’s amazing
bveiseh··on Trying to remember the name of a startup plz help
Oh, i havent seen this, but this looks brilliant. I tried building something similar last year, awesome
bveiseh··on Virtual Cloud Provider Startup
interesting concept, looking for feedback
bveiseh··on Ask HN: Is rebuilding an entire legacy software system stupid?
you're not far off, tho nepotism wouldn't be a contributing factor lol, see my commend below
bveiseh··on Ask HN: Is rebuilding an entire legacy software system stupid?
Not cpu cycles, I mean real system architecture inefficiencies + adding modern processes to improve performance. see my comment below on what I had in mind, but basically airline systems
bveiseh··on Ask HN: Is rebuilding an entire legacy software system stupid?
I want to re-write the systems that manage airline bookings, ticketing, and flight+crew management.

Airlines are always facing issues with ticketing and mismanagement of assigning air crews and pilots.. introducing a modern ML accelerated flow to determine how to balance ticketing with crews for flights, taking into account historical numbers of passengers for that time/route could have an enormous impact on airline efficiency.