Insights from experts shaping secure development

The recently released National Cybersecurity Strategy signals the need for a seismic cultural shift for most companies, with the most glaring recommendation coming in the form of security accountability falling primarily on software vendors. This is a positive step, though it is sure to cause teething problems, especially as many organizations struggle to accurately assess their security maturity across the board, particularly among the development cohort.

Erfahren Sie, wie eine agile Lernplattform für sicheren Code in die Workflows und Tools von Entwicklern eingebettet werden kann, und beginnen Sie, eine Kultur des sicheren Code-Lernens aufzubauen.

Anfang dieses Jahres veröffentlichte der PCI Security Standards Council Version 4.0 seines Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). Zwar müssen Unternehmen erst im März 2025 die Anforderungen von 4.0 vollständig erfüllen, doch dieses Update ist das bisher umfassendste Update, das die meisten Unternehmen dazu zwingt, komplexe Sicherheitsprozesse und Elemente ihres Tech-Stacks zu überprüfen (und wahrscheinlich zu aktualisieren). Dies gilt zusätzlich zur Implementierung von rollenbasierten Schulungen zum Sicherheitsbewusstsein und regelmäßigen Schulungen zur sicheren Programmierung für Entwickler.

Kamer van Koophandel shares how it embedded secure coding into everyday development through role-based certifications, Trust Score benchmarking, and a culture of shared security ownership.

See how Paysafe's partnership with Secure Code Warrior led to a 45% boost in developer productivity and a major reduction in code vulnerabilities.

DigitalOcean's use of Secure Code Warrior training has significantly reduced security debt, allowing teams to focus more on innovation and productivity. The improved security has strengthened their product quality and competitive edge. Looking ahead, the SCW Trust Score will help them further enhance security practices and continue driving innovation.

How big a threat does agentic AI pose to businesses currently? And what should security leaders be doing to address the risk?

My co-founder and CTO, Matias Madou, Ph.D., and I consulted our crystal ball (or should that be our NVIDIA GPUs?), and this is what we believe 2026 has in store for us from an AI security perspective.

An alleged nation-state attacker used Claude Code and a range of tools in the developer ecosystem, namely Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, to almost autonomously target specific companies with benign open-source hacking tools at scale. Of the over thirty attacks, several were successful, and proved that AI agents could indeed execute large-scale, malicious tasks with little to no human intervention. Maybe it’s time we went a little slower, stopped to reflect on what is at stake here, and how best to defend ourselves.

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