In today's rapidly evolving software landscape, security teams find themselves caught in an AI crossfire.
On one side, AI-powered development tools are generating more code—and more vulnerabilities—faster than ever before. On the other side, AI-enabled attackers are automating the discovery and exploitation of those vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale. Yet security teams remain stuck with technology that hasn't fundamentally changed in over a decade, bombarding them with noise and manual processes that slow everyone down.
If AppSec teams are going to win, something’s got to change.
The hard truth is that our current application security tools are failing us. While development has seen transformative innovations—AI coding assistants, infrastructure as code, automated testing, continuous deployment—security tooling remains fundamentally unchanged. Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) scanners still create more work than they eliminate.
Often, these scanners generate overwhelming noise, with false positive rates exceeding 40%. They demand complex configuration that impedes deployment and requires weeks of manual analysis to validate results. Most critically, they've failed to keep pace with modern development workflows, creating bottlenecks where—if there was reliable results—there should be none.
The cost of this crisis isn't just financial—though those numbers are shocking enough, with remediation costing thousands of dollars per vulnerability. Most organizations are drowning in backlogs reaching into the thousands of issues.
But the real cost is in lost opportunity. Every hour security experts spend triaging noisy results is an hour not spent on security work. The backlog grows, and security teams watch their credibility erode as they fall further behind.
This crisis in application security is exactly why we founded AppSecAI. We've spent decades in the security industry watching practitioners struggle. We believe security professionals deserve better—solutions that work for them, amplifying their expertise rather than draining their reputations.
We’ll have more to say as we go along. Hope you’ll join us.
The AppSecAI Team