How Organizations Can Secure Their AI Code
CSO Online, Monday, January 20th, 2025
AI-generated code is surfacing everywhere, even in places where its use is officially banned. Here's what cybersecurity leaders can do to ensure it doesn't jeopardize security.
In 2023, the team at data extraction startup Reworkd was under tight deadlines. Investors pressured them to monetize the platform, and they needed to migrate everything from Next.js to Python/FastAPI. To speed things up, the team decided to turn to ChatGPT to do some of the work. The AI-generated code appeared to function, so they implemented it directly into their production environment. And then called it a day.
The next morning, they woke up 'with over 40 Gmail notifications of user complaints,' co-founder Ashim Shrestha wrote in a blog post. 'Everything seemed to have set on fire overnight. None of these users could subscribe.'