The annual pentest model made sense when applications changed slowly and deployments were infrequent. Neither of those things is true anymore for most engineering teams.
Continuous testing flips the model: instead of a single deep assessment on a fixed schedule, security testing runs alongside development, catching issues closer to when they’re introduced rather than months later in a scheduled review.
This doesn’t replace the value of a skilled human tester’s judgment — it changes when that judgment gets applied, and how often. Continuous doesn’t have to mean shallow; it means the gap between ‘code ships’ and ‘code gets tested’ shrinks from months to days.
