{
  "id": 12347439,
  "title": "Hack The Box’s AI Range Enterprise Edition tests whether AI agents can do their jobs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/hack-the-boxs-ai-range-enterprise-edition-tests-whether-ai-agents-can",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-06T09:00:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SiliconANGLE",
    "slug": "siliconangle",
    "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/06/hack-the-boxs-ai-range-enterprise-edition-tests-whether-ai-agents-can-do-their-jobs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Cybersecurity training firm Hack The Box has unveiled AI Range Enterprise Edition, a tool designed to evaluate the capabilities of artificial intelligence agents in security roles. The platform seeks to address the issue of assessing agents' performance on the tasks they perform daily, as opposed to just passing benchmark tests during deployment. Hack The Box asserts that human security staff typically undergo more rigorous evaluations than AI agents.\n\nThe original AI Range was launched in December last year, and since then, AI laboratories, government entities, and large cloud service providers have been utilizing it for testing. Corporate security teams can leverage the enterprise edition to conduct the same assessments. Each AI agent is graded based on its assigned role, referred to as Agentic Worker Competence. The assessment provides a score for the role and a pass-or-fail result for each environment the agent operates in, with these results monitored over time.\n\nWhen new environments arise due to emerging vulnerabilities and attack patterns, customers have the option to re-run the appraisal. Hack The Box's Chief Product Officer, Gerasimos Marketos, explained the process as \"connect the agent, assign it a role, and let it work.\" The platform then records how the agent performs on its own, allowing security leaders to decide the appropriate workload for each agent.\n\nThe platform also encompasses human staff working alongside AI agents. Hack The Box's founder and CEO, Haris Pylarinos, emphasized the importance of gaining confidence in both human and AI workforce components as AI assumes a larger role in cybersecurity. Currently, penetration testers and security operations center analysts are the only two roles with AI-assisted versions available. The analyst version enables practitioners to review alerts in realistic scenarios, with AI providing recommendations that they must evaluate.\n\nThe grading system for these roles, called Agentic Operator Competence Scoring, tests whether a practitioner can identify errors in an agent's reasoning, when to intervene, and when it is acceptable to allow AI-driven work without correction. AI Range Enterprise Edition and the two AI-augmented roles are now available, with additional cybersecurity roles planned for release in the coming months. Hack The Box is a venture capital-backed startup that secured $55 million in a Series B round in 2023, led by The Carlyle Group, Paladin Capital Group, and Marathon Venture Capital. The company reports over 800 enterprise customers and a community of more than 4 million cybersecurity professionals.",
  "summary": "Cybersecurity training company Hack The Box Ltd. today introduced AI Range Enterprise Edition to let security teams test whether their own artificial intelligence agents can do the jobs they have been assigned. The release is seeking to take on a problem in how security teams vet their agents. Hack The Box says an agent may […] The post Hack The Box’s AI Range Enterprise Edition tests whether AI…",
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