In a significant move for the application security industry, Apiiro has announced that Thomas Dohmke, the former CEO of GitHub and a key figure behind the creation of GitHub Copilot, has joined the company as a Strategic Advisor. This appointment underscores Apiiro's focus on addressing the unique security challenges posed by the rapid, widespread adoption of AI in software development, aiming to prevent risks before code is even generated.
Thomas Dohmke, former GitHub CEO, joins Apiiro as a Strategic Advisor.
The move aims to secure AI-generated code at an enterprise scale.
AI is accelerating code delivery but introducing 10x more risk.
Apiiro uses a patented Software Graph to provide context to AI models.
The goal is to enable secure-by-design code generation without slowing developers.
This addresses a critical gap as developers review less of the AI-written code.
The fundamental shift to AI-driven development has created a new security paradigm. While enterprises are shipping code four times faster, AI is simultaneously introducing ten times more risk. This is because AI models generate code without understanding an enterprise's specific software architecture, security policies, or runtime environment, and developers are reviewing a smaller fraction of the total output.
Apiiro closes this critical security gap with its patented Deep Code Analysis (DCA) technology. This technology builds a real-time, comprehensive Software Graph that maps an enterprise's entire application landscape from code to runtime. By providing AI models with this unique, contextual understanding, Apiiro's platform can guide and safeguard the code generation process to prevent business risks proactively.
The involvement of a leader like Thomas Dohmke validates the urgency of Apiiro's mission. Having been instrumental in popularizing AI-generated code with over 26 million developers, Dohmke now aims to ensure that this acceleration does not come at the cost of security and compliance for large enterprises, including the Fortune 500.
"Thomas Dohmke was instrumental in driving the most transformative shift in software development in modern history – using AI to write code at enterprise scale," said Idan Plotnik, CEO and co-founder of Apiiro. "Apiiro is now defining how the world safeguards AI to generate secure-by-design code for large enterprises."
"AI has revolutionized software development, but application security and risk management have not kept pace," said Dohmke. "When AI models meet Apiiro’s Software Graph – from code to runtime – they finally gain the missing context needed to generate secure and compliant code. For the first time, enterprises can prevent business risk without slowing developers down."
With this strategic guidance, Apiiro is positioned to lead the application security market into a new era of risk prevention. By integrating security directly into the AI code generation process, the company enables a future where enterprises can harness the speed of AI while ensuring their software remains secure-by-design from the very first line of code.
About Apiiro
Apiiro is the Agentic Application Security Platform, powered by the AutoFix AI Agent – force-multiplying application security and development teams to design, develop, and deliver secure software faster in the AI era. Fortune 500 companies including USAA, BlackRock, CVS, Cigna, Prudential, Bloomberg, 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, governance, detection, prioritization, remediation, and prevention of application risks at scale.
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