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Replit enables you to build apps to create and launch apps that hold real customer data within a day.
Before coding agents, a full pre-launch security review required procuring a pen test from a vendor that would cost thousands, and weeks of back-and-forth.
A penetration (”pen”) test is a safe, authorized mock cyberattack that helps you fix security flaws before bad hackers find them.
As we have democratized software creation, we have also sought to democratize securing it.
A new generation of creators needs to ensure their apps are hardened against attackers, who look at apps built with AI as an opportunity as a potential opportunity.
Our existing scans have an agent read your code and look for patterns that tend to be dangerous.
That catches a lot, and it runs every time you build.
But a malicious hacker doesn’t see your code.
Instead, they open your app and start poking around to find any doors you might have left unlocked.
It’s a totally different way of searching that leads to different results.
The gap between these two approaches is where most actual break-ins happen: even if nothing in the code looks wrong, the app might still hand over data it shouldn’t.
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