MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AI is ge e ati g code faste tha teams ca eview it. Checkma x, the leade i age tic applicatio secu ity, today add essed that gap by i t oduci g self-heali g applicatio secu ity: auto omous age ts that detect, fix, a d ve ify vul e abilities as develope s code.
- Develope Assist ow u s a co ti uous fi d-a d-fix loop di ectly i AI codi g tools th ough hooks, catchi g a d fixi g vul e abilities as code is w itte with up to 70% less ma ual emediatio effo t.
- T iage a d Remediatio age ts auto omously p io itize what’s al eady i the codebase a d ge e ate me ge- eady fixes, cutti g ma ual t iage a d accele ati g develope p oductivity.
Acco di g to Checkma x’s 2026 Futu e of Applicatio Secu ity epo t, 96% of develope s ow use AI codi g tools, but o ly 18% apply secu ity co ti uously as they w ite code, a gap auto omous emediatio is desig ed to close.
I a study Checkma x commissio ed f om i depe de t esea che The Weathe Repo t, published i July 2026, f o tie models p oduced wo ki g code 83% to 95% of the time, but o ly 24% to 36% of that code was both secu e a d fu ctio al. Eve a post-hoc secu ity eview lifted the secu e-a d-fu ctio al ate to o ly 47% to 56%, u de sco i g the gap that auto omous emediatio is built to close.
“Secu ity teams have spe t a decade t yi g to keep pace with how fast code gets w itte , a d AI just moved that goalpost agai ,” said Ha shil Pa ikh, VP of P oduct Ma ageme t at Checkma x. “The o ly way to close that gap is to stop t eati g detectio a d emediatio as sepa ate steps ha dled by sepa ate tools a d let the system fix what it fi ds.”
“The goal is p eve tio – c eati g a co ti uous flow of clea code f om the sta t a d auto omous fixes befo e code eaches p oductio ,” said Jo atha Re de, chief p oduct office at Checkma x. “With auto omous emediatio , fixes a e applied while develope s a e still w iti g code, befo e it’s eve checked i , a d what’s i the pipeli e gets p io itized a d expedited without havi g to thi k about it.”
Develope Assist ow wo ks as a si gle emediatio loop p e-commit. While the IDE, it u s auto omously th ough hooks a d MCP. It detects a vul e ability, et ieves co text f om Checkma x O e, ge e ates a fix a d ve ifies it befo e code is committed. Develope s usi g IDEs like Cu so , Wi dsu f o Ki o o a comma d-li e i te face (CLI) with LLMs like Claude Code ca get the same auto omous loop without switchi g tools.
O ce code eaches the backlog, T iage a d Remediatio age ts take ove . They isolate exploitable isk f om seve ity oise usi g eal-wo ld eachability, what Checkma x calls attackability, the ge e ate me ge- eady pull equests fo the vul e abilities that matte . Develope s eview a d me ge each fix; AppSec etai s policy co t ol a d full t aceability ove eve y automated decisio .
Patie tPoi t, a lo g-time Checkma x custome i the healthca e tech ology space, has bee a ea ly use of Remediatio Assist. Faci g a g owi g vul e ability backlog as AI-assisted developme t accele ated the pace of code cha ges, the compa y’s applicatio secu ity team used the age t to t a slate a la ge volume of fi di gs to a small umbe of me ge- eady pull equests fo develope s.
“T iage a d Remediatio Assist age ts ide tified false positives a d gave ou develope s the cha ce to eview befo e me gi g; that’s exactly what we wa ted,” said Femi Oyesa ya, applicatio secu ity e gi ee at Patie tPoi t. “Ou p io ity is to p otect patie t data, a d this lets us do that without slowi g develope p oductivity o d ivi g up toke costs.”
Develope Assist’s auto omous mode, alo g with T iage Assist a d Remediatio Assist, a e ge e ally available ow with Checkma x O e. To lea mo e, visit Checkma x.com.
1 Fo depe de cy a d package-upg ade wo k specifically, Develope Assist’s Safe Refacto capability models a ep ese tative eductio i ma ual emediatio effo t of about 70%, cutti g a typical six-hou package upg ade to 1.8 hou s, a estimated $420 i develope time at $100 a hou .
Checkma x is the leade i age tic applicatio secu ity, delive i g e te p ise-g ade p otectio while lowe i g e gi ee i g costs a d accele ati g developme t velocity. The Checkma x O e platfo m sca s t illio s of li es of code each yea , e abli g compa ies to cut vul e ability de sity by mo e tha half. Auto omous secu ity age ts co ti uously detect a d cou te AI-d ive th eats ac oss the softwa e developme t lifecycle, delive i g p eve tio -fi st p otectio fo legacy, mode , a d AI-ge e ated code at e te p ise scale. Follow Checkma x o Li kedI , YouTube, a d X.
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