Todd Humes | Synack Author

Todd Humes

Director, Infrastructure and Security Operations

Todd Humes is a Senior Director of Platform and Security Engineering at Synack, where he focuses on building the resilient and secure environments necessary to support continuous security validation and modern offensive security operations. Todd leads the engineering and compliance teams responsible for ensuring Synack's platform remains a robust, secure foundation for its global network of researchers and advanced AI agents. His work is essential to maintaining the operational resilience required for high-scale security testing and real-time vulnerability discovery. By integrating modern security engineering with scalable cloud architectures, he enables organizations to leverage Synack's offensive security capabilities with confidence in the platform's integrity and performance. Todd brings more than 25 years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure, and federal mission systems. Under his leadership, the Synack Platform achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, opening the door for U.S. federal agencies to use Synack's offensive security capabilities inside their ATO boundaries.

Recent research

Feb 13, 2026
Myth Or Reality: Automated Pentesting For Fast-Moving Dev Teams
In the world of high-velocity CI/CD pipelines and “ship it yesterday” mentalities, penetration testing is often viewed as the ultimate speed bump. I recently came across a Reddit thread discussing whether “online” or automated pentesting is a myth for fast-moving teams, and it sparked a necessary conversation for us as security engineers. Security engineers are [...]