IR-ready patching and AI pentesting: What November’s product updates mean for responders
Help Net Security’s November 28 roundup highlighted two releases we should operationalize in IR: Action1’s Intune-integrated third-party patching with risk-based prioritization, and Synack’s agentic AI “Sara Pentest.” Used together, they tighten mean time to remediate across Windows/macOS/Linux and turn pentest output into triage signals you can act on during containment and eradication (Help Net Security, Nov 28, 2025).
Intrusion Flow
Unpatched third-party applications remain one of the most common footholds; CISA’s KEV catalog is the authoritative list of CVEs actively exploited in the wild and should drive emergency patching during an incident (CISA KEV overview). Typical flow we see: