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Application Security Posture Management — the category, the buyers, and why every CISO has it on their 2026 roadmap. Read this if you've heard the acronym and want a one-page primer that doesn't require a vendor demo.
Ten essential articles on AI-native ASPM — fundamentals, compliance, deep dives, and threat research. New articles published every two weeks throughout 2026.
Application Security Posture Management — the category, the buyers, and why every CISO has it on their 2026 roadmap. Read this if you've heard the acronym and want a one-page primer that doesn't require a vendor demo.
Aikido caps its free tier at 2 developers and charges $35–$105 per extra developer above 10. We charge €0 per developer at every tier. Walking through the math at 50 devs makes the pricing model visible.
NIS2 Directive Article 21 imposes specific software-supply-chain security requirements on essential and important entities across the EU. What it actually says, who it applies to, and what evidence you need to produce.
Why pattern-matching SAST tools surface noise and miss exploits, and what deep semantic code analysis does differently — unifying syntax, control flow, and data dependence into a queryable understanding of the codebase. The difference between "this looks suspicious" and "this is exploitable".
Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, Devin, Replit — the AI assistants your team uses ship vulnerable code by default. A practical guide to keeping productivity high while the security posture holds.
Digital Operational Resilience Act in financial services. The Article 28 third-party register deadline is June 2026. What goes in the register, how Plexicus produces the evidence, and what an audit actually looks at.
The difference between a SAST finding (theoretical) and an AI Pentest finding (a working PoC running against your sandbox). Why your board will only fund the fixes for the second kind.
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act mandates secure-by-design and vulnerability handling for nearly all software sold in the EU after 2027. What "secure by design" means in audit terms, and what changes about your SBOM workflow.
LLMs hallucinate package names. Attackers publish real packages with those names. The result is a supply-chain attack vector unique to the AI-coding era. How to detect, how to block, and what we found scanning 10,000 Lovable apps.
Why every other AppSec product stops at "Filter". The five stages of the Plexicus autonomous loop, what each one actually does, and why closing the loop without a human in the middle is the 2026 product bar.
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Plexicus is the AI-native ASPM that scans, filters, fixes, pentests, and explains — autonomously. Unlimited developers, unlimited repos, fair-use AI actions. Real free tier, €269/mo annual when you're ready.