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This post is based on Mackenzie's conversation with Jason Haddix on The Secure Disclosure podcast. Listen to the full episode or watch below. Jason Haddix has topped the Bugcrowd leaderboards, run security as CISO of Ubisoft, and wrote The Bug Hunter's Methodology, the playbook a lot of working pentesters learned from, so his read on the direction of the field is worth listening to. He believes that “90% of pen tests will be done by AI” in the near future.

Some of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in modern web apps are the default features left switched on where they were never meant to be reachable. The first entry in our Findings from the AP series looks at an exposed actuator endpoint. On paper, this finding started the same way most do: an HTTP endpoint returned a 200. Nothing about that response looks unusual by itself. It’s the kind of line that gets logged, categorized, and moved past in most automated scans.

For years, our security team has run pentests against business-critical applications across industries, and one pattern stands out. The vulnerabilities that are the most difficult to remediate are business logic vulnerabilities: IDOR, broken access control, privilege escalation, and multi-step workflow abuse. These are the kind of vulnerabilities pentest experts find by noticing a broken assumption behind one API call and chasing it until the full exploit path becomes clear.