How Stack Overflow’s Security Team Closed the External Exposure Gaps That Other Testing Left Behind
Senior Information Security Engineer Anthony Gacayan needed penetration testing that didn't just generate a report — he needed attacker-level validation that could surface real external-domain exposures with enough transparency to actually act on.
Stack Overflow is the world’s most trusted knowledge-sharing platform for developers, used by nearly everyone who codes — with over 83 million questions asked and answered, and enterprise knowledge solutions deployed across thousands of organizations including Microsoft, Bloomberg, and Chevron. With that breadth of reach and the technical credibility the brand carries, the security team is held to an exceptionally high standard. Senior Information Security Engineer Anthony Gacayan needed penetration testing that didn’t just generate a report — he needed attacker-level validation that could surface real external-domain exposures with enough transparency to actually act on.
“Novee takes the complexity out of penetration testing while providing transparent, step-by-step details of everything they do. Novee delivers the attacker-level validation we need to confidently close real external-domain exposures that other testing misses.”
— Anthony Gacayan, Senior Information Security Engineer, Stack Overflow
