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Legit Security Named as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Secure Software Engineering 2026

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Legit Security, the leader in agentic application security, today announced the company was named a Sample Vendor in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Secure Software Engineering 2026. Legit was cited in both the Agentic Coding Security and Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) markets.

The shift to AI-led development has exposed a fundamental flaw in traditional application security: a find-it, fix-it model built for human-paced development that can’t scale to AI-generated code volume. Vulnerabilities accumulate faster than teams can triage them, while adversaries use AI to find and exploit those gaps at speed. Security leaders need a new approach — one that matches the pace of AI, prioritizes what actually matters, and stops issues before they ever reach a commit.

“Legit was built for this moment. AI-generated code was always going to outpace traditional AppSec approaches; the only question was how fast,” said Roni Fuchs, co-founder and CEO at Legit. “In our opinion, being cited in both Agentic Coding Security and ASPM reflects something we’ve believed from the start: that context, remediation, and prevention can’t be solved in isolation. They must work as one system and that’s the agentic AppSec platform we’ve built.”

Agentic Coding Security

According to Gartner, “Agentic coding security is focused on securing software development and deployment utilizing automated AI agents for generating code. To meet established cybersecurity standards, agentic coding requires rigorous security verification and visibility. This comprehensive verification process includes application security testing, software supply chain security, agent activity monitoring, prompt sanitization and the security of the underlying technology supporting the AI coding agents.”

Application Security Posture Management

According to Gartner, “ASPM platforms centralize the visibility and governance of application security-related risk. They ingest, deduplicate and normalize signals from security tools across DevSecOps pipelines and runtime environments, enriching them with the business and operational context for accurate risk measurement and remediation priorities. ASPM serves as an application security program control plane, providing policy enforcement automation and workflow orchestration.”

Legit’s Agentic AppSec Platform

Legit’s platform was designed specifically for the challenges associated with AI-first development. As an integrated platform supporting both human- and AI-led coding, Legit delivers:

  • Agentic Context & Prioritization: Legit enriches every finding with context, such as reachability and business criticality, so teams can action what matters. Results are prioritized via AI with only exploitable issues bumped to the top of the priority list.

  • Agentic Remediation: Legit’s autonomous agents take over, applying fixes that match your business policies. Agents operate in the context of these requirements, guiding pull requests and fixes. Agents then rescan the code to ensure remediation was effective and complete.

  • Agentic Prevention at Code Generation: Insights from Legit’s remediation agents are integrated into your AI coding agent – Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot. This, along with Legit’s integrated SAST and SCA, allows Legit to provide in-IDE feedback to developers. Each fix becomes an additional skill for your agent, so fewer issues are introduced over time.

More information is available at www.legitsecurity.com.

 

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Source: Gartner, Hype Cycle for Secure Software Engineering 2026, Aaron Harrison, 2  June 2026.
     
   

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About Legit Security

Legit Security is the Agentic Application Security company, purpose-built for a world where AI writes code. Legit’s platform autonomously prioritizes and remediates the vulnerabilities that matter most and prevents new ones from being introduced at the moment AI code is generated. Legit continuously learns from your codebase to deliver secure AI-generated code at a speed and scale no traditional AppSec approach can match. Legit is trusted by security teams worldwide, including the FORTUNE 500.

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