The Crossroads of AI and Application Security

Veracode's Chris Wysopal on Navigating AI's Risks and Rewards in App Security Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 9, 2024

AI has been in cybersecurity for a long time now. However, generative AI is the new thing that everyone is excited about, said Chris Wysopal, CTO and co-founder of Veracode. With its ability to analyze and generate code, generative AI presents both challenges and solutions - the yin and the yang - reshaping how developers and security professionals approach software development and maintenance.

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"Using AI to automate the fixing problem just kills so many birds with one stone. You're fixing the old code that was written by developers years ago that you didn't get to, and it can fix the new code that the generative AI is creating," Wysopal said.

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