Why Security Tools Fail to Reduce Risk: The Cybersecurity Shelfware Problem
Chris Wysopal warns that buying security tools without fixing vulnerabilities creates activity, not risk reduction.
Chris Wysopal warns that buying security tools without fixing vulnerabilities creates activity, not risk reduction.
John Dickson, CEO of ByteWhisper Security, says today’s AI boom is both inevitable and dangerously familiar. Drawing on decades in application security, he argues that enterprises are repeating early AppSec mistakes, and offers a better path forward.
Traditional security tools were designed when code changes were measured in hundreds of lines per sprint and development cycles lasted weeks. Today, AI accelerates code production to thousands of lines daily with fundamentally different patterns than human-written code.