Company
Date Published
Author
Detectify
Word count
793
Language
-
Hacker News points
None

Summary

In 2020, Detectify expanded its operations significantly, achieving notable milestones including the completion of over 475,000 scans with 24 million findings, thanks to its transition to a remote-first work policy and a growing community of ethical hackers. The Detectify Crowdsource initiative scaled up its web application security efforts, introducing over 650 new security tests and achieving rapid module deployment times averaging 25 minutes. The company enhanced its platform with a revamped user interface, improved integrations with tools like Slack and JIRA, and added features such as DOM-based XSS support. Detectify embraced virtual events, participated in over 27 conferences, and promoted 18 team members to leadership positions while expanding its workforce to 132 employees with improved gender diversity. The company also advanced its security research efforts, focusing on common Nginx misconfigurations and web cache vulnerabilities, and achieved ISO 27001 certification, underscoring its commitment to information security best practices.