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S10 E17: The Code-Aware DAST Era: Scaling Runtime Security at the Speed of AI Coding Assistants with Joni Klippert, Co-Founder & CEO of StackHawk
Jan 28, 2025 · Season 10 · Episode 17 · 28 min
Security Testing & Remediation for DAST
Joni Klippert has spent many years in startups. Post getting her MBA, she built her early career in Boulder, CO, and became very technical learning new technologies throughout the businesses she worked for, liked VictorOps and Splunk. Outside of tech, she is married with 2 dogs. Her favorite thing to do is travel with her husband to visit Michelin star restaurants. One of her favorites was called Azuermendi in Spain, as it was not only delicious, but an immersive experience.
Joni had been building software for engineers for a long time, as a product person. At one point, she started researching the last mile of DevOps, and was surprised how far this particular group was behind, in regard to tooling. She dreamt of automating the pen-testing remediation process, and stumbled upon an opportunity as it relates to DAST - dynamic application security testing.
This is the creation story of Stackhawk.
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