The future of pentesting is Human x AI, and it's already in Burp Suite Professional
Summary: HackerOne's 2025 Hacker-Powered Security Report found that 70% of surveyed researchers now use AI tools in their workflow, while only 12% believe AI could replace humans entirely. PortSwigger cites the report in positioning its Burp AI feature, built into Burp Suite Professional, as showing roughly 25% month-over-month growth and the largest reported share among AI-enhanced pentesting tools.
Why it matters: Nearly three-quarters of the researchers you might hire or contract already run AI in their testing, so the question is no longer whether AI touches your pentest results but whether the tooling keeps a human validating what it produces.
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