The 2026 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report recorded the fastest lateral movement at 27 seconds after initial access. In one case, data exfiltration started four minutes after entry. Most organizations still schedule penetration tests quarterly, if they're lucky, and wait weeks for the report. By the time the PDF lands in your inbox, the findings are stale. You ship features weekly. Your security review happens annually. Somewhere in between, you're shipping code that hasn't been tested, because the pen test backlog is six applications deep and the next slot is in Q3. A 2025 Checkmarx report found that 81% of organizations knowingly deploy vulnerable code to meet delivery deadlines. Not because they don't care about security, but because the process can't keep up with the release cycle. AWS Security Agent was built to close that gap. The Pen Test Bottleneck The bottleneck isn't finding vulnerabilities. It's everything around it. Traditional pen testing is a project. You scope it.…