Bridging The Dev-Security Gap With Smarter Authorization
devops.com, Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Software teams have always lived with a built-in tension - developers push to ship fast, while security teams pump the brakes to assess risk. Now, with AI flooding the enterprise, that friction is spiking. One recent survey found a staggering 322% jump in privilege-escalation risks tied to AI-generated code.
The root problem isn't new - people and machines are routinely overpermissioned, and fixing it is notoriously hard. But the rush to adopt LLMs and autonomous agents is exposing just how dangerous overpermissioning has become. Real progress will require engineering and security to move in lockstep, starting with a smarter, shared approach to agent and LLM authorization.