StackHawk Adds High-Profile Security Veteran Joe Sullivan to Board as AI-Driven AppSec Demand Accelerates

New updates have been reported about StackHawk.

StackHawk has appointed former Chief Security Officer of Meta, Uber, and Cloudflare Joe Sullivan to its board of directors, reinforcing the company’s strategy to position its runtime application security testing platform at the center of AI-driven software development. Sullivan said AI coding tools are reshaping security by massively increasing code output and improving static bug detection, shifting the critical security workload to what happens when applications actually run, which aligns with StackHawk’s focus on dynamic testing in CI/CD before production.

The appointment coincides with StackHawk’s expansion of its go-to-market efforts and its new Alliance & Reseller Program, aimed at broadening distribution of its AppSec Intelligence Platform to security teams contending with AI-accelerated development pipelines. A recent StackHawk survey indicates that 87% of organizations already use AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor, driving code velocity up to 10x, while traditional static analysis and legacy DAST tools remain too slow or noisy to keep pace, leaving more exploitable vulnerabilities and business logic flaws in production. CEO and co-founder Joni Klippert said Sullivan’s decision to join validates customer demand for shift-left runtime testing that integrates into developer workflows, combines attack-surface discovery from source code, and delivers context-aware remediation so AppSec teams can prioritize and fix issues at AI development speed.