‘Vibe Coding’ Needs Guardrails, Says NCSC Amid Rising AI Security Concerns

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned at RSA Conference that the rise of AI-assisted "vibe coding" could scale existing software vulnerabilities unless safeguards are embedded from the start. NCSC leadership described AI-generated code as offering efficiency gains but posing "intolerable risks" for many organisations, urged early adoption of core security principles (improving legacy systems, reducing technical debt, allow-lists, and using memory-safe languages), and highlighted broader market disruption concerns exemplified by the so-called "SaaSpocalypse."