Burp Everywhere, All Around the World: Bringing App Sec Enthusiasts Together in 2025
Summary: PortSwigger said it is expanding its community efforts in 2025 through its Discord server, which has over 8,000 members, and by sponsoring and attending security conferences and hackathons in England's South West, New York, Sheffield, and Rome, plus planned activities around Black Hat and DEF CON. The company also offers event organizers swag and financial support and cites its history of supporting 80,000+ testers and free training through the Web Security Academy.
Why it matters: The vendor behind Burp Suite is cultivating a direct channel to 8,000+ AppSec practitioners and 80,000+ testers, which shapes where tooling habits, early feature access, and community trust form - a channel worth watching if your teams standardize on Burp.
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