Munching on my dinner, came across this vid from
@eostudi0 featuring prof
@ProfTomYeh
He talked about how people wished downfall of Chegg because students cheated using it. Chegg got cooked but then AI became free for all 🫠
They tried detecting cheating but reality was that Chegg was never the problem! it was just an interface. at that time an easy one for students to use.
It was a symptom of a deeper rooted problem in society of there being an incentive to cheat.
If you think about it the detection war against cheating isn't too far from home from infosec.
imo orgs are chasing the wrong tail with just doing AI SAST/DAST in the pipeline.
SAST, DAST, PR review, AI-powered scanners, better triage, lower false positives, etc is important but still it's detection of vulns which is an after-effect of writing insecure code.
A good SAST/DAST solution should be treated as a strong backstop and not the core strategy.
Code is being written with volume and speed like never before. Teams are plugging their security gates at PRs like before but now with AI sprinkled on top.
but why at PR?
By the time a PR is opened, significant engg effort is already spent. A serious finding at that gate can mean lots of effort duplication, frustration for everyone involed and delayed delivery.
shift left was advocated before but it wasn't as realistic to achieve. The most you could do were still scans after code is already written because tools needed that as a base to reason about.
And the way to write secure code was training your devs and hoping they remember to set verify_signature=True lol
Now, it's AI that produces a large chunk of the code. And the best part about it is AI can be shaped at the source.
With the right harness your features can be secure BEFORE the code gen even starts.
Just like PM role get merged with engg, security needs enmeshment with dev.
Security at design stage IS the future and it's staring at us in the face. just what i think.
Mythos or gpt 5.6 writing hardened and secure code by default >>> detecting all vulns
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