Appsec

DryRun Security is an AI-native SAST platform built specifically for teams shipping code with AI agents. Unlike traditional scanners that match patterns, it understands behavior — detecting logic-level flaws that Snyk, Semgrep, and CodeQL routinely miss. What Is DryRun Security? (AI-Native SAST for the Agentic Era) DryRun Security is an AI-powered Static Application Security Testing (SAST) platform designed from the ground up for agentic and AI-assisted coding workflows. Founded to address a specific failure mode — that traditional pattern-matching scanners cannot reason about code behavior, only code structure — DryRun built its Contextual Security Analysis (CSA) engine around large language models that understand intent, data flow, and business logic. In March 2026, DryRun published research showing 87% of AI agent pull requests (26 of 30 sampled) introduced at least one security vulnerability, and their CSA engine detected 88% of all seeded vulnerabilities in head-to-head testing — a figure that dropped below 40% for every competitor tested. DryRun earned a 4.9/5 rating on G2 and was named a High Performer in SAST in Spring 2026 G2 Reports. For teams running Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf, DryRun embeds directly into the IDE via its Code Insights MCP server, surfacing security findings before a PR is even opened. ...

Aikido Security is an all-in-one application security platform that replaces 16 separate security scanners — covering SAST, SCA, secrets detection, CSPM, DAST, container scanning, IaC, and runtime protection — with a single flat-rate tool trusted by 50,000+ organizations. If you’re tired of juggling Snyk for dependencies, SonarQube for code quality, and a separate DAST tool for web scanning, Aikido is specifically designed to solve that coordination overhead. What Is Aikido Security? Aikido Security is a developer-first application security posture management (ASPM) platform founded in 2022 that consolidates code, cloud, and runtime security into one dashboard. Unlike best-of-breed point solutions like Snyk or Checkmarx, Aikido runs 16 integrated scanners across the full software development lifecycle — from the first commit to production runtime — and uses AI-powered triage to surface only the vulnerabilities that actually matter. As of 2026, the platform is trusted by over 50,000 organizations and 100,000 teams worldwide, including Revolut, Deel, The Premier League, Tines, n8n, and SoundCloud. The core value proposition is simple: instead of paying per developer for three or four separate tools and spending hours correlating alerts across dashboards, you pay a flat monthly fee and get complete SDLC coverage in one place. Aikido’s 2026 Latio Tech recognition as Platform Leader, Supply Chain Innovator, and AI Pentesting Innovator confirms that this isn’t just a marketing claim — the platform has earned serious analyst attention as a category-defining tool. ...

The global application security market is worth $14.83 billion in 2026 and growing at an 18.8% CAGR, and two vendors are fighting for opposite ends of it. Aikido Security just closed a $60M Series B at a $1 billion valuation. Veracode has been the enterprise SAST standard for over a decade. If you are evaluating both, this comparison breaks down where each tool wins, where it struggles, and which one belongs on your team’s shortlist. ...

ProjectDiscovery Neo is an autonomous AI security engineer that runs real exploit chains, not just detection passes. In a three-application benchmark spanning banking, healthcare, and insurance targets, Neo confirmed 66 exploitable vulnerabilities — the highest count of any tool tested — including 24 findings that no other scanner or agent caught. What Is ProjectDiscovery Neo? (The Nuclei-Powered AI Security Engineer) ProjectDiscovery Neo is an autonomous penetration testing platform built on the Nuclei toolchain, designed to behave like a senior security engineer: it plans attack chains, executes exploits, validates impact, and returns proof packs that your team can replay. Unlike traditional scanners that flag potential issues, Neo confirms whether a vulnerability is actually exploitable before reporting it. The platform launched commercially at RSAC 2026 in March after ProjectDiscovery won the RSAC 2025 Innovation Sandbox — the highest-profile pre-launch validation any AI security startup has received. Underneath Neo sits Nuclei, the open-source engine that has completed over 10 billion scans and is maintained by a community of 100,000+ security engineers with 9,000+ YAML templates covering CVEs, misconfigurations, and custom attack patterns. Neo takes this attack-pattern library — which no new AI security startup can replicate overnight — and wraps it inside an agentic loop powered by Claude Opus 4.5, running 30+ agent-native security tools inside isolated sandboxes. The result is a tool that combines breadth (every CVE template Nuclei ships) with depth (multi-step reasoning to chain vulnerabilities into working exploits). ...