Apiiro announced the launch of Guardian Agent, an AI-powered application security (AppSec) agent designed to shift enterprise software security from reactive detection to proactive prevention in the age of AI-driven development. Traditional security tools struggle to keep pace as AI coding assistants accelerate code generation – expanding the attack surface up to 6× and increasing risk as much as 10× – while producing vulnerabilities faster than teams can fix them. Guardian Agent addresses this challenge by operating directly within developers’ IDEs and CLI environments to rewrite developer prompts into secure, compliant prompts in real time, preventing insecure or non-compliant code from ever being generated.
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It leverages Apiiro’s Deep Code Analysis and a living Software and Risk Graph to maintain continuous, context-aware protection across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), adapting as software architecture, policies, and runtime environments evolve. “Enterprises are flying blind as code velocity, attack surface expansion, and risk introduced by AI coding agents are growing far faster than humans and siloed scanners can handle,” said Idan Plotnik, CEO of Apiiro. With Guardian Agent, organizations can reduce security backlog, increase developer productivity, and achieve compliant code with zero vulnerabilities, establishing a new era in application security where prevention replaces alert fatigue and reactive workflows.