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How the OWASP Top 10 Applies to AI-Generated Code

AI-assisted development has changed how quickly teams can produce code, but it has not changed the security standards that code needs to meet. According to the Sembi Software Quality Pulse Report, respondents estimate that, on average, 53% of their organizati...

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More Than Half of All Code Is Now AI-Generated: Here’s What That Means for Security Teams

AI now plays a role in more than half of the code produced within the organizations surveyed. According to the Sembi Software Quality Pulse Report, respondents estimate that, on average, 53% of their organization’s code is AI-generated or AI-assisted.¹ For ma...

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SAST and SCA in the Age of AI: Key Findings from the Sembi Software Quality Pulse Report

A sneak peek at key findings from Sembi’s first-ever industry-wide survey | Kiuwan The code your SAST and SCA tools were tuned to analyze is changing fast. With more than half of all code now AI-generated or AI-assisted, application security teams are f...

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2026 Security Data Breaches: The Complete Tracker of Global Incidents

Understanding and tracking security data breaches Security data breaches are one of the biggest challenges organizations face today. Every year, companies deal with data leaks, ransomware attacks, or unauthorized access to sensitive information, often because...

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The Security Blind Spot in Your AI Development Pipeline

I suspect we have all watched a demo where an AI agent autonomously discovered and fixed a security vulnerability in under three minutes. This is impressive until the engineer mentioned they had no idea what dependencies the agent had pulled in to make the fi...

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Data Privacy Week: Taking Control of Your Data

Data Privacy Week aims to educate people on how to manage their personal data. But this week isn’t just for individuals; it is a shared reminder for every industry and business that collects, stores, or uses personal information. The observance builds on Data...

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Why the IDE Is the New Security Perimeter in AI Coding

I’ve spent time talking to engineering teams about their AI coding assistant adoption, and I keep hearing the same story: developers love the productivity boost, but security teams are drowning in a new category of issues they are not equipped to handle. Here...

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Where Application Security Is Heading in 2026

For any of you who have read any of my prior year-end predictions, you will know that I am actually idling at something near 100%… of misses. Having said that, I am back at it again, wrapping up the last week of 2025. Application security in 2026 will b...

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12 Ways AI Is Improving Cloud Security

As both AI and cyberattacks grow in sophistication, traditional security methods designed for static, on-premises environments no longer cut it. AI in cloud security helps teams spot threats in real time, anticipate risks before they escalate, and respo...

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The Secret Sprawl Crisis: Why AI Development Demands a New Security Playbook

We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in how secrets leak into codebases, and traditional scanning approaches are falling dangerously behind. The numbers tell a stark story. Recent reports suggest that teams using AI code-generation tools may face up to ...

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AI and Cybersecurity: Threats, Defenses, and What to Expect Next

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cybersecurity. It’s being used to defend networks and to launch more sophisticated attacks. AI and cybersecurity are now closely connected, for better and worse. As threats become more advanced and harder to detect, i...

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Kiuwan 2024 Year in Review and What’s Ahead in 2025

2024 was a pivotal year for the security world. From high-profile breaches (CrowdStrike, anyone?) to new opportunities in securing applications, it was a time of both challenges and transformation. Most significant for us at Kiuwan were the feedback and sugge...

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