The new bottleneck: verification
Why faster code creation pushes pressure into review, testing, governance and AppSec.
State of AppSec 2026: Security at Engineering Speed
AI has flipped delivery into continuous code generation and deployment faster than teams can review line by line.
AppSec hasn’t kept up. Most programs still run scan → report → triage → debate , producing more noise, slower decisions, and risk in production. Gartner projects that by 2028, 75% of enterprise engineers will use AI code assistants, raising the bar for trustworthy verification.
This report exposes:
Why scan-and-report AST breaks down in continuously changing systems
How AI-driven delivery made verification (not detection) the new bottleneck
Where modern risk actually lives: authorization, business logic, exploit chains
If your AppSec backlog grows faster than you can validate exploitability, verification is the constraint; not scanning.
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What You'll Learn
Learn why AppSec teams are hitting a hard scaling limit, how the highest-impact failures evade traditional scanning, and what “security at engineering speed” requires: trusted decisions backed by real validation and reproducible evidence.
Why findings stopped being useful
A finding without context still requires a human to answer: is this exploitable here, right now?
Where risk lives now: authZ + logic
Why many modern failures look like valid requests abusing unintended behavior.
Exploitability proof cuts noise
How evidence-backed validation turns debates into decisions, and backlogs into action.
What “security at engineering speed” requires
Continuous reasoning, memory, and execution across design → code → runtime.
How to evaluate Security AI safely
What to demand: guardrails, deterministic workflows, audit logs, and strict data boundaries.
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Generation got cheap. Understanding got expensive.
The next era of AppSec is not more alerts; it's faster, higher-confidence security outcomes.
Ready to secure at engineering speed?
Download the report to learn why scan-and-report hit a ceiling; and how modern teams move from findings to outcomes.