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XBOW: Getting to 'Should I?' Instead of 'Can I?'

XBOW describes how its autonomous pentesting agent detects IDORs (insecure direct object references) with fewer false positives by first having agents log in as different roles (admin, manager, user) and passively document expected access boundaries, then using that observed baseline to validate suspicious findings instead of reasoning about authorization in a vacuum. The post argues traditional DAST tools miss IDORs because they lack ownership context, and details XBOW's shift from an "attacker/validator debate" model to multi-role, multi-account exploration for grounding authorization judgments.