Beyond the Hype: 5 Major Reasons to Attend DevSecCon 2025

AI is revolutionizing software development, but it's also introducing new security complexities. As development leaders, you're no longer just managing teams writing code; you're navigating a new ecosystem where AI-generated vulnerabilities are a reality and the need for comprehensive visibility into your development lifecycle is more critical than ever. And as security leaders, you’re responsible for enabling this AI-driven reality without sacrificing security.

This is why you can't miss DevSecCon next Wednesday, October 22, 2025.

This isn't just another security conference. DevSecCon is where both development and security leaders gather to discuss the strategic challenges of today and build the secure development practices of tomorrow. We’re moving beyond the hype to provide you with a blueprint for scaling your business securely in the age of AI.

Here are the core themes we’ll be tackling.

1. Elevating AppSec teams from task management to strategic governance 

Is your application security team consumed by chasing down developers to fix tickets? This reactive approach doesn't scale and reduces AppSec's role to task management instead of strategic risk reduction. At DevSecCon, we will explore how to elevate your security function. We’ll dive into strategies that deliver comprehensive asset visibility and risk-based prioritization, transforming your AppSec team from a bottleneck into a strategic partner that empowers the business to move securely and fast.

Relevant session: "AppSec Evolution: from Task Management to Strategic Governance & Prevention" (12:35 pm - 1:00 pm). This session directly addresses the theme by name. Its description outlines the core pillars of strategic governance: Discovery coverage, risk-based prioritization, analysis, and enforcement.

2. Empower developers with guardrails, not gates

Developers need to move fast, and a security ticket that blocks their workflow is a major disruption. True DevSecOps maturity isn't about blocking developers; it's about enabling them. Join us to learn how to build a secure development practice by removing friction from the SDLC. See how the Snyk platform integrates seamlessly into the developer workflow and provides more effective prioritization, empowering your teams to innovate and ship secure code faster without friction.

Relevant sessions:

• "Beyond Shift Left: Adopting a Frictionless DevSec Experience in the Age of AI" (12:10 pm - 12:35 pm). This session will focus on developer workflows and Snyk integrations that help developers stay productive, directly supporting the goal of empowering devs instead of blocking them.

• "Solving Prioritization Whack-a-Mole: Automated Remediation Built on Trust" (1:00 pm - 1:25 pm). Join to see why traditional prioritization methods are failing at today's massive scale. It is a new lens, where Snyk is introducing a data-driven score that identifies safe and easy fixes by predicting the likelihood of an upgrade causing breaking changes. By adopting this approach, teams can shift to a more efficient automated remediation workflow, allowing them to confidently remediate low-risk issues, clear out the noise, and focus their efforts on the vulnerabilities that matter most, ultimately reducing more risk faster.

3. Measure what matters: Prove the success of your program

As a security leader, you are responsible for the organization's overall risk posture and reporting on the success of your security programs. Yet, meaningful reporting that truly captures risk reduction, coverage, and the adoption of secure practices remains a significant challenge. DevSecCon will feature sessions dedicated to helping you effectively measure the health of your AppSec program across the entire organization. Learn how to leverage advanced analytics to report on what’s being found, what’s being fixed, and the overall impact on your security posture.

Relevant session: "AppSec Evolution: from Task Management to Strategic Governance & Prevention" (12:35 pm - 1:00 pm). To evolve from task management to strategic governance, a leader must be able to report on the overall impact on security posture. This session directly points to the activities that generate the data needed for measurement. Discussing strategic governance is incomplete without addressing how to measure its success, which is a key part of Snyk's value proposition through features like advanced analytics and risk exposure reporting.

4. Taming the AI code revolution

This theme tackles the new complexities introduced by AI, where AI-generated code itself is often highly vulnerable, and security teams lack visibility into where AI is being used. The solution is to embed security directly into AI workflows to proactively generate secure code from the start.

Relevant session: "Secure at Inception: Taming the AI Code Revolution" (1:25 pm - 1:50 pm). In this session, you’ll learn how Snyk addresses the "massive security risks" from AI code assistants by embedding security into AI workflows, embodying the principle of "Secure at Inception".

5. Extending security to the new age of AI-powered apps

In addition to AI-generated coding, LLMs, agents, and other components are becoming foundational parts of modern application architecture. This new era of applications is opening up a whole new world of potential risks and attacks. Securing them requires a new approach. 

Relevant session: “Agentic Applications Require Agentic Security Solutions” (1:50 pm - 2:15 pm). To enable secure AI application innovation, we need a new breed of security teams, AI Security Engineers who leverage their own agentic security orchestration systems. This session will explore the core tasks these systems need to cover, and the opportunity presented by orchestration to see, understand, and address complex threats against AI-native apps.

Secure your spot at DevSecCon 2025

DevSecCon is your opportunity to gain the insights and strategies needed to lead with confidence in the age of AI. Join us on October 22 to learn how to build a security program that is not only effective but also a strategic enabler for your business.