Behind the Firewall ft. Joseph Kirkpatrick
by Morgan Prost / July 29th, 2026
What happens when no human remembers the environment?
During a recent Team meeting, Joseph Kirkpatrick our Founder and President, made a point that stuck with everyone: automated tools are tempting, but what happens when no human remembers the environment?
He’d just heard from a client about another vendor who assigns a different pen tester to every engagement. No continuity, no historical context — every test starts from zero.
That’s what gets lost when testing becomes a rotating cast of strangers. A team that stays with an environment, learns it, shares notes, and builds on past findings can go deeper each time, because nobody’s relearning the basics on the client’s clock.
Automation is great for collecting and managing evidence. But the relationship between pen tester and client is still the multiplier, the thing that turns repetitive scans into security improvements that actually stick.
