Vibe Coding for CISOs: Managing Risk & Opportunity in AI Development

What happens when your product, sales, and marketing teams can build and deploy their own applications in a matter of hours? This is the new reality of "Vibe Coding," and for CISOs, it represents both a massive opportunity for innovation and a significant governance challenge.

In this episode, join Ashish Rajan and Caleb Sima as they move beyond the hype to provide a strategic playbook for security leaders navigating the world of AI-assisted development. Learn how Vibe Coding empowers non-engineers to solve business problems and how you can leverage it to rapidly prototype security solutions yourself. Get strategies to handle the inevitable influx of AI-generated applications from across the business without overwhelming your engineering and security teams.

• Understanding the Core Opportunity
• Assessing the Real-World Output
• Managing the "Shadow Prototype" Risk
• Building Proactive Guardrails
• Architecting for Safety

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Questions asked:

(00:00) Why Vibe Coding is a C-Suite Issue

(02:34) The Strategic Advantage of Hands-On AI

(04:20) Your AI Development Toolkit: Where to Start

(12:08 Choosing Your First Project: A Framework for Success

(16:46) The CISO as an AI Engineering Manager: A Step-by-Step Workflow

(31:32) A Surprising Security Finding: AI and Least Privilege

(36:47) Augmenting AI with Agents and Live Data

(38:50) Beyond Code: AI Agents for Business Automation (Zapier, etc.)

(43:30) The "Production Ready" Problem: Who Owns the Code?

(53:25) A CISO's Playbook for Governing AI Development

Resources spoken about during the episode:

AI Native Landscape - Tools

Cline

Roo-Code

Visual Studio Code

Windsurf

Bolt.new

Aider

v0 - Vercel

Lovable

Claude Code

ChatGPT