Sponsored by:
Samantha Pearlstein
Gwendal Mognier
The machine already solved it. Could you? Pentester vs AI brings our race-the-machine CTF off the screen and onto the table. Draw a card, read the challenge, a leaky query, a forged token, a broken access check, and walk us through how you'd break it. No laptop, no flag to submit. Just talk through your approach: what's the flaw, what would you reach for, where's the path in. Then flip the card and see how the AI reasoned through the same target. Where you agreed, where you didn't. The clock is ticking for each challenge; come show us your line.
Samantha Pearlstein
Founding Sales Engineer @ Escape
Samantha is a sales engineer with a strong background in security research, executive cyber resilience, and nation-state threats. As a former consultant at Accenture, she led cyber resilience initiatives for Fortune 100 executives, developed GenAI-powered security tools, and delivered workshops on emerging cyber challenges. Today, as a Sales Engineer at Escape, Samantha helps AppSec teams secure their APIs and SPAs, combining her passion for cybersecurity with hands-on problem-solving.