Hottest Cybersecurity Open-Source Tools of the Month: August 2026
Help Net Security, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Five notable open source security tools for AI agents, supply chain evidence, and penetration testing.
Help Net Security highlights five emerging open source cybersecurity projects for August 2026. SkillSpector is NVIDIA's scanner for evaluating AI agent skills, and Future AGI provides a platform for tracing and guardrailing LLM agents.
Chainloop serves as an evidence store for supply chain security using in-toto attestations. PentestGPT automates penetration testing through AI agents, and Hazmat offers containment for AI coding agents.
Together they address security concerns across a range of infrastructure environments.