Industry Leader to Share Insights on Securing AI-Generated Code and Building AppSec for the Era Where Developers Write Prompts, Not Code

Semgrep, a leading code security company, today announced Semgrep Secure 2026, a one-day, inaugural keynote featuring insights on AI-powered detection on a foundation of deterministic, static analysis to surface vulnerabilities from traditional OWASP Top 10 and complex business logic flaws like IDORs and broken authentication that traditional SAST tools often miss. Attendees will also learn how to secure software in an environment where AI writes the majority of code and minimal human review occurs before deployment. The free event is on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 9am PT/12pm ET.

“The gap between how fast software is built and how fast it can be secured has never been wider,” said Isaac Evans, CEO and co-founder of Semgrep. “AI coding tools are dramatically increasing development velocity while also expanding attack surfaces and introducing new classes of risk. Semgrep is rethinking application security so teams can identify and fix real vulnerabilities early—with tools that adapt as code and workflows evolve.”

As AI coding assistants like Cursor and Claude Code become the default development environment, legacy AppSec tools designed for line-by-line human-written code are breaking down. When code ships from natural language prompts with little or no human review, traditional security approaches create false positive noise that drowns real issues, or blind spots that miss context-dependent vulnerabilities. During the event, Semgrep will outline three fundamental requirements for AI-era application security:

1. Zero false positives: When false positives overwhelm teams, real vulnerabilities get ignored. The session will explore how to build detection systems that eliminate noise without missing critical issues.
2. Deep contextual understanding: The same code can be a standard feature at one company and a critical vulnerability at another. Attendees will learn how to build security systems that automatically understand organizational context through threat models and design diagrams.
3. Self-improving detection: Security systems must evolve faster than the foundation models writing the code. The keynote will demonstrate how to build detection engines that learn from organizational context and security decisions to continuously improve accuracy and relevance.

Semgrep Secure 2026 will feature live product demonstrations, customer success stories from organizations including Homebase, and insights from Semgrep leadership including CEO Isaac Evans, Staff Product Managers Jack Moxon and Katie Kent, and Senior Product Manager Milan Williams. The event will also include partnership perspectives from Palo Alto Networks, Vice President of Product Management Sarit Tagerok.

Semgrep's insights are informed by exceptional scale. In 2025, the company secured more than 18,000 organizations globally, grew its developer base by nearly 1 million users, and processed 75 million scans across hundreds of thousands of repositories. The company's AI-powered triage system made 5.3 million decisions with a 95% agreement rate among security reviewers, while successfully autofixing 740,000 vulnerabilities- providing real-world validation of the approaches that will be shared during the keynote.

The virtual event is free to attend with registration available here.

Semgrep will also be showcasing its approach to AI-era application security at RSA Conference 2026 in March, where the team will be available for technical discussions and live demonstrations.

About Semgrep

Semgrep is an application security platform for scanning code for security, reliability, & other issues. Semgrep’s mission is to make it expensive to exploit software by bringing world-class security tools to engineers—software and security alike. Semgrep’s conviction is that the security process must enable rapid software development, instead of hindering it. Leading companies like Snowflake, Figma, Lyft, and Dropbox rely on Semgrep to safeguard their code. Semgrep is funded by Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.

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