Mark Foudy

Mark Foudy is an AI offensive security researcher, author, and neurodiversity advocate in the information security community. He specializes in adversarial AI, red teaming, and voice verification security, focusing on practical vulnerability exploitation techniques. Mark has presented research on voice verification systems at DEF CON, competed in the Social Engineering Village with an AI voice agent, and leads the DEF CON 508 chapter.

books by Mark Foudy

AI Agents for Offensive Security
  • MEAP began April 2026
  • Last updated April 2026
  • Publication in Early 2027 (estimated)
  • ISBN 9781633434172
  • 300 pages (estimated)
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Data Science / AI / AI Agents
resources: Source code Book forum Source code on Github

AI is changing how offensive security workflows are designed, executed, and analyzed. AI Agents for Offensive Security: Understanding AI-powered attacks and how to stop them shows you how to build and use AI agents and multi-agent pipelines to support reconnaissance, triage, vulnerability discovery, reporting, agentic penetration testing, and red team/blue team workflows.

In this practical guide for offensive security professionals, you’ll learn how to create intelligent agents that automate parts of security testing while preserving safety, auditability, and human oversight. You’ll build your first security agent, explore how artifacts and pipelines structure agentic workflows, and see how AI can help interpret results, prioritize findings, and reduce manual triage. Along the way, AI security expert Mark Foudy emphasizes governance, authorization controls, resilience, and transparency. You’ll understand where AI adds value, and also where it introduces operational and security risk. The result is a clear framework for integrating AI into day-to-day security work.