Two Cycles, One Codebase (Paperback)
Language: English
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Paperback. The vulnerability count on every CISO's dashboard keeps climbing. AI-assisted development shipped more code last quarter than the quarter before, and much of it needs fixing faster than any human team can manage. The math stopped working, and the industry's usual response, more dashboards, more scanners, more gates, only added weight to a system already buckling. TWO CYCLES, ONE CODEBASE makes the case that application security is undergoing its most significant operating-model shift since the introduction of source control. The authors call it the dual cycle: two continuous processes running in parallel against the same codebase, one building features, one reducing risk, both increasingly powered by AI on the generation side and human judgment on the validation side. The two cycles meet at a single, bounded transaction the authors call the validation handshake, where every AI-generated fix earns its way into the codebase through human approval. This book traces that model from first principles through its first public proof: OASIS, now an official OWASP project, where a global community of validators reviews AI-generated security fixes for open source software at a scale no single vendor or maintainer could reach alone. It closes with the enterprise playbook: how a CISO introduces the model, what changes operationally, which metrics survive the transition, and what AppSec looks like once remediation becomes continuous rather than episodic. Written by three practitioners who arrived at the same conclusion from different directions, an enterprise security executive, a fix-automation founder, and a bug-bounty and open-source community leader, this is not a vendor pitch or a product comparison. It is an operating model, built to outlast whichever tools implement it, for CISOs, AppSec leaders, engineering executives, and every practitioner who has quietly recognized that the old model no longer scales. Each chapter closes with an Operating Question to apply to your own environment and a This Week's Move to turn the idea into action before the next chapter starts. This book is meant to be operational, not theoretical, short enough to read on a flight, and useful enough to keep on the shelf as reference material long after. The fight application security has been losing for years is winnable now. This book shows you how. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Two Cycles, One Codebase (Paperback)
- Author
- Michael Cartsonis
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 9798190467666
TWO CYCLES, ONE CODEBASE makes the case that application security is undergoing its most significant operating-model shift since the introduction of source control. The authors call it the dual cycle: two continuous processes running in parallel against the same codebase, one building features, one reducing risk, both increasingly powered by AI on the generation side and human judgment on the validation side. The two cycles meet at a single, bounded transaction the authors call the validation handshake, where every AI-generated fix earns its way into the codebase through human approval.
This book traces that model from first principles through its first public proof: OASIS, now an official OWASP project, where a global community of validators reviews AI-generated security fixes for open source software at a scale no single vendor or maintainer could reach alone. It closes with the enterprise playbook: how a CISO introduces the model, what changes operationally, which metrics survive the transition, and what AppSec looks like once remediation becomes continuous rather than episodic.
Written by three practitioners who arrived at the same conclusion from different directions, an enterprise security executive, a fix-automation founder, and a bug-bounty and open-source community leader, this is not a vendor pitch or a product comparison. It is an operating model, built to outlast whichever tools implement it, for CISOs, AppSec leaders, engineering executives, and every practitioner who has quietly recognized that the old model no longer scales.
Each chapter closes with an Operating Question to apply to your own environment and a This Week's Move to turn the idea into action before the next chapter starts. This book is meant to be operational, not theoretical, short enough to read on a flight, and useful enough to keep on the shelf as reference material long after.
The fight application security has been losing for years is winnable now. This book shows you how.
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