OpenAI is introducing an AI agent that’s meant to help security teams find and patch vulnerabilities in large databases, potentially cutting into demand for legacy cyber firms.
The agent, called Codex Security, works by identifying cybersecurity flaws and proposing solutions before fixing the bugs, OpenAI said in a statement Friday. The tool is designed to “operate at scale” and provide “easy-to-accept patches,” and thus enable developers to focus on higher-level tasks, the company said. The San Francisco-based firm also shared that the agentic tool has been used to scan and identify security vulnerabilities within open-source repositories.
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