Security News > 2022 > February > IBM and Snyk: Developers must lead the charge on cybersecurity

The interesting part about where IBM is actually headed is, security and what we actually do in security is about protecting the surface area.

When you look at Snyk and Snyk's kind of whole ethos is to say, "Well, that's the core. That's the heart. You have to be developer-first." And the meaning of that, one of my favorite things to do is to talk to a chief security officer and say, "Yes, you're kind of here to sort of help secure the organization and you are the one likely to sign the check, but you're not the most important user of the product." Because the most important user of the product, the biggest risk we both face is the developers don't actually pick it up.

Their biggest challenge is to get developers to actually embrace it, to actually build that in.

One of the things, roughly, that I think Snyk did a really fantastic job of was taking a look at how most of the developers actually do their development work right now? What are the tools they use? What are the tool trainings that they're familiar with? And then as you mentioned, the open-source community actually is a community that replicates the individuals who have eminence, just as Guy actually mentioned.

Applying AI all along that surface and landscape is all about kind of what Snyk and IBM is actually trying to do to operationalize that stuff, specifically kind of in both AI ops and in the other areas in that particular area.

That's where companies like Snyk and others actually are putting together a lot of resources for the developers that they go into this next generation.

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