AI and the Future of Secure Coding

What happens to application security when AI agents start writing most of the code?

Jack Cable knows both sides of this problem better than almost anyone. As a Senior Technical Advisor at CISA, he helped architect the Secure by Design initiative that challenged the entire software industry to stop shipping insecure products and expecting customers to clean up the mess. Now, as the founder of Corridor, he's building at the center of a question that didn't exist two years ago: how do you govern, secure, and trust code that no human wrote?

In this episode, Jack walks us through the journey from federal cybersecurity policy to startup founder, and why he believes we're at an inflection point that makes everything before it look manageable. We talk about why a decade of shift-left never actually fixed the vulnerability backlog, and why the rise of coding agents, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and the internal tools enterprises are quietly building, is about to make that backlog look quaint.

Jack makes the case for a new category he's helping define called Agentic Security Coding Management, and explains what separates it from the SAST tools and ASPM platforms security teams already have. We get into the uncomfortable duality of AI as both the source of the problem and the proposed solution, the frontier labs showing up in AppSec with unclear intentions, and the market confusion that's leaving CISOs struggling to tell real governance from repackaged scanning.

We spend the back half of the conversation on the hard questions. What does real governance of AI-generated code actually look like when thousands of developers are running agents in parallel? Is it policy enforcement at the agent level, provenance tracking, runtime attestation, or something nobody has built yet? And drawing on his time at CISA, Jack shares where he sees regulation heading: liability frameworks, mandatory disclosure, and what happens if we get the policy either too heavy or too absent at the exact wrong moment.

Whether you're a CISO trying to get ahead of this, a founder building in the space, or a developer watching your workflow transform in real time, this is the conversation that frames where AppSec goes from here.