AI Agents Can Now Take Software Apart. DevOps Teams Need a Plan

AI-powered reverse engineering is making it easier to understand and rebuild software without source code. Tools such as REA and increasingly capable AI models create opportunities for legacy modernization while raising fresh concerns about intellectual property, application security and functional correctness…

Tom Smith Oct 20, 2026

GitHub Brings AI Security Scanning to Pull Requests CodeQL Can’t Cover

GitHub’s AI Scan brings AI-powered vulnerability detection to pull requests involving languages, scripts and infrastructure files beyond CodeQL’s existing coverage. Paired with the general availability of agentic autofix, the release expands security automation across the development lifecycle. But advisory-only findings, coverage gaps and AI credit consumption mean DevOps teams still need clear review policies…

Tom Smith Oct 20, 2026

Cohere Plans to Acquire Aisle to Add AI-Powered Code Security

Enterprise AI platform provider Cohere announced it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Aisle, a cybersecurity startup whose AI agent platform discovers source-code vulnerabilities and generates proposed fixes. The proposed acquisition would also establish a dedicated cybersecurity business called Cohere Cyber. Aisle’s platform analyzes software for previously unknown vulnerabilities, validates potential findings, evaluates…

Jaime Hampton Oct 19, 2026

Chainguard Debuts a Security-First Agent Platform

Open source security company Chainguard has released Workspaces, a service designed to provide a safe space for agents to do their thing without disrupting the security of existing operations. The market for platforms to host agents is large and growing daily, though Chainguard’s expertise in security solves a major problem with running agents, namely managing…

Joab Jackson Oct 19, 2026

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Giri RadhakrishnanOct 20, 2026

Beyond SLSA and Sigstore: Securing the Developer Origin in the Age of Agentic Coding

SLSA, Sigstore and SBOMs have strengthened software supply chain security, but attackers are increasingly targeting developer workstations before code reaches the CI/CD pipeline. With autonomous AI coding agents installing dependencies, executing commands and accessing sensitive credentials, endpoint security is becoming a critical cloud-native concern. Securing the software supply chain now requires protection from the developer’s IDE all the way to Kubernetes production workloads.

Tom SmithOct 20, 2026