Your AI Security Engineer: Inside AWS Security Agent

Your AI Security Engineer: Inside AWS Security Agent

Here’s what should make every security leader uncomfortable: organizations routinely deploy vulnerable code to production to meet delivery deadlines. Not because they don’t care about security. Because security can’t keep up. Over 60% of organizations update their web applications weekly or more frequently. Nearly 75% test those applications for security monthly or less. The math doesn’t work. The gap between development velocity and security validation grows wider every sprint. At re:Invent 2024, AWS CEO Matt Garman announced AWS Security Agent—not as another security scanning tool to add to the pile, but as a fundamentally different approach to the problem. ...

January 23, 2026 · 8 min · Luke Little