Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Your AI agent is sandboxed. Its data still needs guardrails.

AI coding agents need access to real development context to be useful. They read repositories, modify files, execute commands, call tools, and communicate with external models. Docker Sandboxes gives those agents an isolated environment where they can work without unrestricted access to the developer’s host. But consider a simple scenario. An agent running entirely inside its sandbox reads a credential from a project configuration file and includes it in an otherwise legitimate request to its LLM.

Mend.io upgrades 184 open source organizations to the Renovate Community (OSS) plan

Mend.io has proactively upgraded 184 open source organizations and GitHub users to the Mend Renovate Community (OSS) plan, with no request required. The upgrade covers about 3,000 repositories with roughly 4 million combined GitHub stars. Maintainers get higher resource limits, more concurrency, and access to Merge Confidence.

NIST SSDF: 4 core practices for secure software development

The NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) is a set of fundamental, outcome-based practices that integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Documented in NIST SP 800-218, it helps organizations reduce vulnerabilities, prevent recurrences, and establish a common language for secure development. The SSDF outlines dozens of tasks grouped into four high-level categories.

AI is building your software. Who's making the security decisions?

AI coding assistants are changing how software gets built. Traditional AppSec tools focus heavily on scanning the final code artifact, but as AI agents move from simple code dependencies to autonomous decision-makers and execution paths, traditional security controls enter the process too late.

What Is AI Governance? A Practical Framework for Security Teams

The speed of AI integration is rapidly outpacing corporate governance capabilities. Generative AI is now embedded in development workflows and business applications, while agentic AI can make decisions and take actions with limited human intervention. That governance gap is becoming harder to ignore. Gartner predicts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027 because of escalating costs, unclear business value, or inadequate risk controls.

How attackers use AI models to find code vulnerabilities

AI models accelerate software development, but attackers use those same capabilities to hunt for pipeline vulnerabilities. Asaf Saar (EVP and Chief Product Officer, Mend.io) and Christian Jensen (VP Engineering, Tricentis) break down why full visibility is required to secure AI-native software.

Detection scaled. The loop did not.

Findings got cheap. Verified closure did not. That AppSec remediation gap is the actual problem. AppSec spent a decade winning the wrong race. We got very good at finding things. Scanners in CI. SCA on every manifest. SAST on every pull request. Container and IaC checks on the way to the cluster. Then AI arrived and did what AI does to a solved problem: it made discovery cheaper, louder, and continuous. The same model that writes the function will also enumerate the ways to break it.

Securing autonomous AI agents: regulatory risk and governance for modern AppSec

Autonomous AI agents writing and executing code at machine speed present an urgent compliance challenge for modern software organizations. As global regulations tighten, engineering leaders must establish clear governance layers over agentic workflows, external tool calls, and Model Context Protocol integrations to ensure full accountability. In this session, Mend.io experts Asaf Saar and Ben Goldberg unpack the intersection of AI compliance, software supply chain security, and enterprise risk management. Learn how to bridge the accountability gap without sacrificing development velocity.