Harness Acquires Qwiet AI for AI DevSecOps Security

Harness, the AI DevOps Platform™ company, has acquired Qwiet AI, formerly ShiftLeft, Inc., a leader in agentic AI-powered vulnerability detection and reachability analysis, effective September 26, 2025. This strategic move follows the March 2025 merger with Traceable and supports Harness's application security business, projected to hit $50M in ARR this year, enhancing secure software delivery amid rising AI code generation.

Quick Intel

• Harness acquires Qwiet AI to integrate agentic AI for vulnerability detection.
• Builds on March 2025 Traceable merger, targeting $50M ARR in app security.
• Addresses AI-generated code risks like insecure patterns and false dependencies.
• Qwiet AI's CPG tech achieves 97% true positive rate, 90% false positive cut.
• Enables 95% faster remediation and 92% reduction in irrelevant OSS alerts.
• Rahul Sood joins as GM to lead expanded AI DevSecOps strategy.

Bridging the Security Gap in AI Code Generation

The surge in AI coding tools, including "vibe coding" practices, accelerates development but introduces vulnerabilities through insecure patterns, missing safeguards, and fabricated dependencies. Security teams grapple with alert overload—mostly low-value or false positives—diverting focus from critical risks and widening the innovation-security divide. Enterprises must scale AI confidently, ensuring compliance matches speed in DevOps pipelines.

Harness and Qwiet AI: Unified Security for the AI Era

Integrating Qwiet AI's Code Property Graph (CPG) technology with Harness's Software Delivery Knowledge Graph and Traceable's runtime data delivers precise, application-aware vulnerability detection. This unification quiets noise, prioritizes exploitable risks, and embeds security from code inception through deployment. "AI-generated code is transforming how software gets built, but it's also introducing a new wave of hidden vulnerabilities," said Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Harness. "With Qwiet AI, we're extending our robust application security portfolio to secure code from the very first step. By unifying security and DevOps, every build, test, and deployment can be secure by default – reducing risk while accelerating innovation. It's a game-changer for enterprises that want to move fast and stay secure."

Key benefits include:

• Quiet Alert Noise: 97% true positive rate and 90% false positive reduction focus developers on genuine threats.
• Reduce Developer Toil: Deep application awareness via CPG enables 95% faster remediation.
• Focus Where It Matters: Reachability analysis eliminates 92% of non-exploitable open source vulnerabilities.
• Understand Real Application Risk: Code and production insights highlight truly exploitable issues.

"At Qwiet AI, we've always believed that developers deserve security that matches their speed," said Stuart McClure, CEO of Qwiet AI. "Our technology was built for the future of AI-driven development, and Harness provides the platform and scale to bring that vision to life. Together, we can help enterprises turn security into a true driver of innovation."

"With AI producing code at unprecedented speed, enterprises need security practices that can match the new pace of development," added Katie Norton, Research Manager for DevSecOps at IDC. "This is accelerating demand for security testing built directly into DevOps platforms, where it can be adopted quickly, scaled easily, and managed without added integration burden. Harness's acquisition of Qwiet AI reflects this shift and can help enterprises adopt AI-driven coding while ensuring innovation and security advance together."

Leadership Expansion to Drive Growth

Rahul Sood, a veteran from Palo Alto Networks, Google Cloud, Pindrop, and SAP, joins Harness as General Manager to steer the application security business. "I'm excited to join Harness at such a pivotal time in the company's growth," said Rahul Sood, General Manager at Harness. "Application security is one of the most urgent challenges enterprises face in the AI era. Harness is uniquely positioned to meet developers where they are, baking security into the software delivery process so customers can innovate without compromise."

This acquisition fortifies Harness's portfolio, securing the full SDLC and establishing benchmarks for resilient, confident software delivery in AI-accelerated environments.

Harness's acquisition of Qwiet AI positions the company as a frontrunner in AI DevSecOps, empowering enterprises to harness innovation without security trade-offs and fostering a future where development speed and safety converge seamlessly.

About Harness

Harness is the AI DevOps platform for modern software delivery. It provides a simple, safe, and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses AI and machine learning to monitor the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight, giving engineers their nights and weekends back. Harness customers like United Airlines, Citibank, and Choice Hotels accelerate deployments by up to 75%, reduce infrastructure costs by up to 60%, and decrease lead time for changes by up to 90%. Harness is based in San Francisco and is backed by industry-leading investors like Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, and Citi Ventures.

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