PortSwigger, the company behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools, swallows $112M

PortSwigger, the company behind Burp Suite and the Web Security Academy, has taken its first outside investment—$112M from Brighton Park Capital—after years of profitable bootstrapping, serving 20,000+ organizations across 170 countries and 1,000+ enterprises. The article emphasizes the growing complexity of cybersecurity, the continued importance of ethical hackers and penetration testers, and how PortSwigger partners with platforms like HackerOne and Bugcrowd while leveraging automation and AI to augment (not replace) human expertise.