Pen-Strategist: A Reasoning Framework for Penetration Testing Strategy Formation and Analysis

ArXi:2605.04499v1 Announce Type: cross Cyber threats are rapidly increasing, expanding their impact from large-scale enterprises to government services and individual users, making robust security systems increasingly essential. However, a significant shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals exacerbates this challenge. While recent research has explored automating tasks such as penetration testing using LLM-based agents, existing frameworks often perform poorly due to limited capability in strategy formulation, domain-specific reasoning, and accurate action and tool selection.