Why Laurie Mercer Became a Security Engineer at HackerOne

Laurie Mercer reflects on his path into security and his decision to join HackerOne, describing the evolution from traditional testing to DevOps and shift-left security practices. He outlines the limitations of automated tools like SAST/DAST, argues that human testers remain essential, and advocates for bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs (Hacker-Powered Security) as a scalable way to find vulnerabilities early and continuously.