The race to secure AI coding: 4 steps to rein agents in

This article warns that AI coding agents present significant security risks—acting as highly privileged insiders capable of exposing source code, credentials, and CI/CD pipelines—and recommends treating them with zero-trust controls: enforce least-privilege, sandbox and limit agent capabilities, augment traditional AppSec with AI-specific observability and policy enforcement, and treat all agent-generated code as untrusted until validated.