The Cyber Team as Code Producer
Techstrong TV Interviews
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For 20 years, security lived one step behind engineering — chasing vulnerabilities, running assessments, and pushing developers to build things more securely. Tom Tovar, Co-Founder and CEO of Appdome, joins Alan Shimel on TechStrong TV to make the case that AI is finally flipping that script. In a wide-ranging conversation covering 11 years of building Appdome with CTO Avi Yehuda, the wild-west state of mobile security in 2015, and where the cyber function is heading next, Tom argues that AI is transforming cyber from an evaluator into a producer — arming security leaders with their own agentic pipelines to code protections, anti-fraud, bot defense and ATO controls directly into the application. He unpacks why segregation of duties still matters in an agentic world, why cyber needs its own sovereignty and its own models, and how a unified threat-data schema lets security teams build the kind of proprietary IP that used to belong only to engineering.
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