2026 Dzone Security Trend Report
2026 Dzone Security Trend Report
81% of large enterprises already run AI agents in production — yet secrets exposure and unvalidated dependencies remain their biggest security gap. This report explores why independent verification has become the prerequisite for safe AI adoption.
What's inside
- Why traditional code review no longer scales at agent speed
- Sonar's AC/DC framework: Guide, Generate, Verify, Solve
- How to close the verification gap before CI ever fires
- Research from global developers on data-centric security strategies
"Velocity has outpaced the system designed to control it. CI/CD pipelines were built for incremental human changes — not large bursts of machine-generated code."
Sonar · From Velocity to Value, DZone 2026