The speed at which new applications are built and released has rapidly increased in the last decade and shows no signs of slowing down. The challenge security teams face is to match the pace of development, the speed at which businesses now release and update products, and defend against the increased number of attacks and attackers.

Penetration testing has been the gold standard in security testing since the 1960s, ever since the rise of networked computers. Penetration testers are skilled at finding verified vulnerabilities to remediate and the very best are always in high demand.

The fact is there is not enough skilled penetration testers to solve the application security problem, we need another way. Many traditional software approaches to solve this problem have been tried but they all have problems. Artificial Intelligence holds the promise to resolving the application security problem through on demand testing that is as good as a skilled penetration tester.

“Technology explosion, rapid changes and a shortage of expert pentesters is building to the perfect cyber security storm”