Automated Tools
Tools used in security testing to automatically scan for vulnerabilities. They operate on the basis of known attack patterns but cannot understand business logic, making it difficult for them to discover business logic vulnerabilities.
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The advantage of automated tools lies in scale and persistence: they can tirelessly scan the same codebase repeatedly, covering path combinations that are hard for humans to exhaust.
Historically, automation tools have typically replaced repetitive tasks first while creating new jobs, but the new jobs often require higher skills, and structural mismatches may arise during the transition period.
Traditional automation tools logging into services usually require handing account passwords to the tool or to a readable configuration file.
The video creator concluded that "the hard part isn't building it, it's knowing what to automate," pointing out that after automation tools became widespread, judging what to automate has become the new bottleneck.
APT samples usually do not recur and lack known features, so automated tools struggle to give reliable judgments directly, and attribution work requires combining multi-dimensional evidence such as geopolitics, infrastructure links and coding style, making human verification irreplaceable in APT judgments.
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The advantage of automated tools lies in scale and persistence: they can tirelessly scan the same codebase repeatedly, covering path combinations that are hard for humans to exhaust.
50%UnverifiedHistorically, automation tools have typically replaced repetitive tasks first while creating new jobs, but the new jobs often require higher skills, and structural mismatches may arise during the transition period.
50%UnverifiedTraditional automation tools logging into services usually require handing account passwords to the tool or to a readable configuration file.
50%UnverifiedThe video creator concluded that "the hard part isn't building it, it's knowing what to automate," pointing out that after automation tools became widespread, judging what to automate has become the new bottleneck.
50%UnverifiedAPT samples usually do not recur and lack known features, so automated tools struggle to give reliable judgments directly, and attribution work requires combining multi-dimensional evidence such as geopolitics, infrastructure links and coding style, making human verification irreplaceable in APT judgments.
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