Apiiro joins Chainguard’s Athena coalition and integrates with Chainguard

Apiiro said it joined Chainguard’s Athena coalition for coordinated defense of open source software and entered an integration with Chainguard. The move places Apiiro’s control-plane capabilities in a broader effort that coordinating parties say has processed tens of thousands of AI-discovered vulnerabilities.

Apiiro stated that Athena is led by Chainguard and includes JPMorganChase, Morgan Stanley, Cisco, Cloudflare, Akamai, Qualys, and other industry leaders. Apiiro said Athena has processed more than 40,000 AI-discovered vulnerabilities and coordinated ecosystem-wide responses.

Apiiro described its Guardian Agent as a control plane for Agentic Development Security. It said the Guardian Agent evaluates findings using software architecture, runtime exposure, and business context, prioritizes based on reachability across a customer’s software architecture, then uses AutoFix to generate contextual code fixes and validate them through automated testing before creating review-ready pull requests.

Apiiro said its integration with Chainguard is live. It said the integration removes CVEs that Chainguard artifacts have remediated from Apiiro scans to reduce false positives, and open source maintainers can request free access to AutoFix. Idan Plotnik, Co-Founder and CEO of Apiiro, said, “Frontier AI models are uncovering novel, chained vulnerabilities in both open source and proprietary first-party software at a pace we’ve never seen before. Discovery is no longer the biggest challenge for CISOs,” and “The challenge is fixing vulnerabilities quickly without disrupting business-critical applications. By joining Athena, we are bringing organizations the context they need to understand which vulnerabilities actually affect their software architecture, which pose a real risk to the business, and how to fix them automatically without breaking their software. AI alone does not secure software. Context does.”

Provided by Globe Newswire on behalf of Apiiro. Click to read original content. The original article was written by Decision Insights Editorial.