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AI Adoption in Application Security

Application Security leaders’ strategic guide on AI adoption for AppSec teams

By Kaushik Majumder, Director, Sony India Software Centre

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest disruptor in technology space which is making huge impact in all
industry sectors & business functions. Cybersecurity leaders have also been working on adopting AI in
day-to-day operations, most popular being cyber defense, but there is potential to adopt cyber security
in various other domains like Third party risk management, application security, security audits etc.

This article focusses on how to leverage AI in application security lifecycle. Broadly, below are the phases
of application security

• Secure code development
• Static & dynamic security testing
• Application penetration testing
• Vulnerability remediation & reporting

Most organizations will require large teams with critical skills to ensure that security is maintained at
various stages of the application security lifecycle.

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