# Replit — Black-box pen tests on Replit

- Company: Replit (replit.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-17T16:52:49+00:00
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- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://replit.com/blog/black-box-pen-tests
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17888-black-box-pen-tests-on-replit
- Subject: Replit Agent

Replit enables you to build apps to create and launch apps that hold real customer data within a day. Before coding agents, a full pre-launch security review required procuring a pen test from a vendor that would cost thousands, and weeks of back-and-forth. A penetration (”pen”) test is a safe, authorized mock cyberattack that helps you fix security flaws before bad hackers find them. As we have democratized software creation, we have also sought to democratize securing it. A new generation of creators needs to ensure their apps are hardened against attackers, who look at apps built with AI as an opportunity as a potential opportunity. Our existing scans have an agent read your code and look for patterns that tend to be dangerous. That catches a lot, and it runs every time you build. But a malicious hacker doesn’t see your code. Instead, they open your app and start poking around to find any doors you might have left unlocked. It’s a totally different way of searching that leads to different results. The gap between these two approaches is where most actual break-ins happen: even if nothing in the code looks wrong, the app might still hand over data it shouldn’t. …

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