In Q3 2024, our 12-person platform engineering team reduced confirmed security incidents by 41.7% (from 72 to 42 per quarter) after rolling out Trivy 0.50 for pre-deployment scanning and Falco 0.40 for runtime detection across 142 production microservices. We didn’t rewrite our CI/CD pipeline, we didn’t hire a dedicated security team, and we didn’t spend a dime on enterprise security tools. Here’s
Every AI app I've shipped recently rewrote the same plumbing. The OAuth dance for Slack. Encrypted storage for an API key. Refresh-token logic that finally fails on the 3rd call after an hour. Wiring up an MCP client to a server behind a bearer token someone pasted into a Notion page.