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How Human Testers Improve Application Security

ID: e662bbf6-7c6b-5fb5-b19e-e3b7c83d8abc

STIX ID: report--e662bbf6-7c6b-5fb5-b19e-e3b7c83d8abc

Feed Name: HackerOne Blog

Date Published: 2024-11-26

Date Updated: 2026-06-11

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This document argues that while DevSecOps and automated scanning tools scale and catch many known issues, they cannot find unknown vulnerabilities; human testers (recon specialists, ethical hackers, pentesters, and bug bounty programs) are necessary to uncover critical flaws that automation misses, citing GitLab and HackerOne survey data.

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