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Apiiro, the leader in agentic application security, has introduced Guardian Agent, a specialized AI AppSec agent designed to protect enterprises from the risks introduced by AI coding agents. By preventing vulnerable or non-compliant code from being generated in real time, Guardian Agent shifts application security from reactive detection to proactive prevention, enabling organizations to scale AI-driven development while maintaining strong security posture and compliance.
AI coding agents accelerate software delivery but introduce unprecedented security challenges. Enterprises generate far more code than humans can review, often without full awareness or validation against organizational standards. Traditional AppSec tools—focused on post-generation detection and remediation—cannot keep pace with this velocity. Guardian Agent addresses this gap by intervening at the prompt level, ensuring secure, compliant code emerges from the start.
“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. “To stay in control, organizations must have real-time software inventory and move from detecting and prioritizing risk to preventing it – without adding more work for developers. With Guardian Agent, we’re defining the next era of application security, where prevention replaces alert fatigue, and security finally operates at the speed of AI.”
Guardian Agent seamlessly integrates into AI coding workflows by automatically rewriting developer prompts into secure, context-aware prompts. It draws continuous intelligence from Apiiro’s Software Graph (mapping architecture from code to runtime) and Risk Graph (assessing exposure and compliance). This enables real-time prevention of vulnerabilities, policy violations, and compliance gaps before code is ever generated.
Key benefits include:
“Guardrails built into pipelines are still reactive in the developer's context,” said Trevi Perry, VP Attack Surface Management, and Pete Del Rosso, Global Head of DevOps at Prudential. “The Guardian Agent will be transformational in shifting the operating model for application security. Combined with AI code generation, it seamlessly integrates the development process to rewrite prompts so they are developed into secure/compliant code. This reduces cost and improves the value of security in a real business context.”
Guardian Agent builds on Apiiro’s AutoFix Agent and introduces patented Secure Prompt technology. Future expansions will further prevent risk across the SDLC. It is currently available in private preview to select customers.
About Apiiro
Apiiro is the Agentic Application Security company that empowers application security and development teams to design, develop, and deliver secure software faster in the AI era. Fortune 500 companies including BlackRock, TIAA, USAA, Bloomberg, SoFi, and Shell rely on Apiiro’s patented Deep Code Analysis (DCA) technology to continuously discover, inventory, and visualize their software architecture graph from code to runtime. This enables automated assessment, detection, prioritization, remediation, and prevention of application risks at scale.
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