Ep204: Hacker Mindset at Scale: Inside Detectify's AI-Powered Security Platform on AWS

Ep204: Hacker Mindset at Scale: Inside Detectify's AI-Powered Security Platform on AWS

April 27, 2026 · 29 min · Episode 204

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The episode explores Detectify's innovative security platform and its use of AWS to deliver proactive protection against vulnerabilities.

Discover how Detectify's hacker-DNA culture, multi-account AWS architecture, and Claude Code on Bedrock helped a lean security team deliver zero-day protection to customers before they even knew they needed it. Topics Include: Haris Kabiljagić leads cloud operations, data, and scanning at Detectify. Detectify started in 2013 as a group of ethical hackers in Stockholm. The platform continuously scans customers' attack surfaces for exploitable vulnerabilities. A global community of elite ethical hackers feeds real-world payloads into the engine. Early on, a centralized cloud team caused over 40 service disruptions monthly. A multi-account AWS strategy via Control Tower eliminated disruptions entirely. The hardest part of decentralizing wasn't technology — it was the culture shift. Cloud ops had to evolve from gatekeepers into enablers of secure, fast deployment. Detectify's architecture runs on three pillars: scalability, event-driven services, and security. MSK and Amazon MQ replaced self-hosted RabbitMQ, enabling true event-driven microservices. AWS Security Hub provides a single pane of glass for security posture visibility. When the CAPS zero-day hit, Detectify delivered a live…

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