Varun Uppal

Founder

Varun is the founder of Shinobi Security, bringing years of experience in cybersecurity and AI to build the world's first AI-powered penetration testing platform. He combines deep technical expertise with a vision to make ethical hacking accessible and continuous for every organization.

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Articles by Varun Uppal (3)

DAST

Application Security

Security Testing

Rethinking Application Security Testing: From DAST Scanners to AI-Powered Pentesting

DAST scanners were built to scale vulnerability detection, not adversarial reasoning. This post explores how AI-powered pentesting changes application security testing by focusing on real-world attack paths and risk.

2026-02-03 · 4 min read

Mobile Security

Automation

Mobile Apps

Meet the world's first AI-powered mobile app pentester

Shinobi can now pentest mobile apps with same skills and precision of traditional pentesting... but does it faster and continuously

2025-10-07 · 6 min read

SAST

DAST

Code Scanning

AI Pentesting VS AI Code Scanning

A bakeoff between a next-gen pentester and code scanner reveals why testing live applications still uncovers vulnerabilities that code scanning alone can't catch.

2025-08-13 · 6 min read