# Scaling Application Security with Metrics and Automation

DevFeed: [Scaling Application Security with Metrics and Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/human-botnet-part-1-15686.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/human-botnet-part-1>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2014-11-07T17:08:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Application Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-security.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>), [Statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/statistics.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-requests.md>)

Tags: [application-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application-security.md>), [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [code-quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-quality.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [pull-requests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-requests.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerabilities.md>)

## AI overview

This article describes how Square's Application Security Team scales security as the organization grows by aggregating project-level metrics and automating vulnerability detection. The approach combines vulnerability, bug bounty, code, collaboration, and team-engagement data to prioritize risk, identify problems early, and track remediation SLAs.

## Source excerpt

Scaling application security with metrics and automation.