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Agentic Development Security: Why AppSec Needs A New Operating Model

Your AppSec strategy is already obsolete. AI agents are rewriting the rules of application security.

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Why it matters

As AI development becomes more autonomous through agentic systems, traditional application security models are breaking down, requiring enterprises to fundamentally rethink their security operating models before they fall behind.

The key facts

3 to know
  1. Application security testing market has reached an inflection point

  2. DevOps platforms now embed security features

  3. AI frontier labs are driving new security paradigms

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Publisher excerpt: Application security testing (AST) has reached an inflection point. The market is crowded, capabilities overlap, and detection alone is no longer a source of durable differentiation. DevOps platforms embed security features; cloud-native application protection platform vendors continue to push…
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