Rickard Carlsson, CEO of Detectify, discussed on the Application Security Weekly Podcast how the company's innovative approach leverages a combination of automation and hacker expertise to enhance web application security. By integrating human ingenuity with automated processes, Detectify aims to scale the knowledge of skilled ethical hackers to a broader audience, thereby enabling organizations to efficiently identify vulnerabilities across numerous applications. The conversation highlighted the importance of balancing human and machine capabilities, emphasizing that repetitive tasks are ideal for automation while humans excel in creative problem-solving. Detectify employs a network of freelance hackers who contribute attack vectors, which the company then automates to create security modules, rewarding contributors based on the number of vulnerabilities detected. The discussion also touched on the necessity of maintaining an up-to-date asset inventory and the significance of providing transparency and security insights directly to developers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. Detectify's approach seeks to bridge the gap between security experts and developers by making security insights more accessible and actionable in real-time.