NorseStar Security is where defenders learn to build and command autonomous offensive agents. A mythic threat-intel house — and the living home of SANS SEC590.
The attack surface the course teaches you to assess — and the realms NorseStar's fictional telemetry pretends to defend.
Map the exposed edge the way an autonomous agent would — before it strikes.
Chatbots, gateways, model registries. The new soft underbelly of the stack.
From a prompt to a pull request to a poisoned build. The long game.
Five days, fifty-fifty lecture and labs. Students enter knowing little about AI and leave building custom pentest agents and supervising autonomous operations.
A curated inventory of the open-source AI offensive landscape, drawn from the SEC590 research pipeline.
| Tool | Category | Stars | Δ 7d | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HexStrike-AI | MCP · 150+ tools | 8.9k | +412 | Orchestrator |
| Strix | Autonomous · web | 6.1k | +288 | Agent |
| PentestGPT | Guided assistant | 9.4k | +77 | Assistant |
| CAI | Framework · REPL | 3.7k | +154 | Framework |