Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Whether you’re teaching computer science, software engineering, or cybersecurity, Aikido equips your students with enterprise-grade security tools, at no cost. Aikido for Education brings the same platform trusted by professional teams into the classroom, helping students learn by doing. Teachers can integrate it into their courses to give students hands-on experience with real-world security challenges, without adding complexity or cost. Curious about the “why” behind this program?

Cybersecurity is a multi-billion-dollar field that touches everyone, students, teachers, universities, and organizations of every size. Hardly a week goes by without a major data breach or attack making headlines. Yet, despite the urgency, the world faces a critical cybersecurity skills gap: millions of roles remain unfilled because graduates often leave school without the hands-on experience needed to succeed.

For years, the cybersecurity industry has hyped AI as a game-changer, but what vendors often delivered was basic machine learning driven or simple predefined rules. The rise of ChatGPT and similar tools dramatically reshaped the landscape, prompting vendors to hastily identify real AI use cases in their offerings.

Last night, our automated Aikido Intel system alerted us that potentially malicious code was detected in some packages within the @nx scope, which include packages with as many as ~6 million weekly downloads. The scope and impact of this breach are significant, as the attacker chose to publish the stolen data directly on GitHub, rather than sending it to their own servers. This means that there’s a SIGNIFICANT amount of credentials that are publicly available on GitHub.

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is a unified intelligence layer that transforms scattered security data into actionable business insights. Why should you care about this new security approach when you already have a working structure in place? To understand this, let’s first look at the security approach that enterprises usually follow and why it is dated.