Shift Left is Dead and Companies Need to Move On
Shift Left is Dead and Companies Need to Move On
https://www.cybersecurity-insiders.com/shift-left-is-dead-and-companies-need-to-move-on/
Publish Date: 2026-05-14 02:46:00
Source Domain: www.cybersecurity-insiders.com
AI agents now write code, invoke tools, and deploy at machine speed, while attackers wield the same technology. Legacy human-centric security tools were not built to secure AI development. The result is an impending influx of risk: more code, a wider attack surface, and faster moving threats.
To combat this, Cycode has released its Agentic Development Lifecycle (ADLC) Security product offering to secure AI-driven software development from prompt to runtime. Addressing the new class of risk introduced by coding assistants, autonomous agents, and AI-generated code, ADLC Security extends Cycode’s Complete platform with controls across the AI layer of the software factory, supporting Cycode’s vision of a single platform that unifies control, context, and autonomy for AI-driven development, enabling a self-protecting ADLC.
With the addition of ADLC Security, Cycode is now the only vendor to address both sides of the AI security equation: securing the AI layer of development (Security for AI) and deploying AI agents to automate security work (AI for Security). Cycode establishes control by governing which AI tools and models developers can use, blocking prompts that expose sensitive data and secrets, enriching agents with code-to-runtime context, and securing AI-generated code before it is committed. ADLC Security brings together four core capabilities under a single policy fabric:
- AI Visibility auto-discovers shadow AI, coding assistants, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers across the development environment, eliminating blind spots from unapproved AI use.
- AI Governance enforces policy-driven control over AI tools, models, and AI-generated code, with full AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM) coverage for SSDF, NIST, SOC2, and ISO 27001 compliance.
- AI Guardrails block risky patterns and prompt-leaking secrets in real time at the IDE, command line interface (CLI), and within AI coding tools, stopping unsafe outputs before they enter the…
