The Rise of the AI Security Engineer: A New Discipline for an AI-Native World
2026-03-04T23:30:02Z•f4f3508d682dffa3cc9ca5fac13821a09a71781eb5991b98bb2650f54da14029
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What happened
Snyk published a set of posts focused on securing AI-native development and the software supply chain. Topics include the emergence of the AI Security Engineer role, a Snyk partnership with the uv package ecosystem for Python AI development, Fetch the Flag CTF write-ups, integration between Snyk and Anthropic’s Claude to close the remediation loop, and a detailed account of the “Clinejection” supply-chain attack. The Clinejection chain combined indirect prompt injection with GitHub Actions cache poisoning to push unauthorized code to thousands of developers, underscoring the need to harden CI/
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- 2026-03-04T23:30:02Z
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