How to handle increasing vulnerabilities with AI-assistants? With Shane Warden from ActiveState / Defender Fridays [#323]]

About this episode

Shane Warden discusses the challenges of AI-assisted vulnerability reporting and the experiences of open source maintainers.

Shane Warden, Principal Architect at ActiveState, shares what it's actually like to be on the receiving end of AI-assisted vulnerability reporting and what open source maintainers are already dealing with that the rest of the industry will face soon.

People in this episode

Guest: Shane Warden

Topics covered

• AI-assisted vulnerability reporting
• open source
• cybersecurity
• vulnerabilities
• technology

Keywords

• AI
• vulnerabilities
• cybersecurity
• open source
• ActiveState

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ActiveState

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