AI Agents Podcast AI Agents Transforming Cybersecurity with Ian Amit (Gomboc.ai) | EP118
Jan 19, 2026
Ian Amit, co-founder and CEO of Gomboc.ai, has decades of cybersecurity experience as both an attacker and defender. In this engaging discussion, he reveals how deterministic AI is reshaping cybersecurity by not just identifying vulnerabilities but actively fixing them in real-time. Amit explains the importance of integrating AI into the development process and highlights the pitfalls of generative AI in securing code. He emphasizes Gomboc's mission to reduce engineering toil while ensuring accuracy and trust in software development.
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Shift Fixes Left Into The IDE
- Shifting fixes left embeds security into the development flow at the IDE level in real time.
- This prevents rework by catching and correcting issues before code is saved or deployed.
Founding Story From A CSO Frustration
- Ian Amit started Gomboc after seeing detection tools identify problems but not deliver fixes in his CSO role.
- He built an agent to move from alerts to actionable, contextual work products for DevOps engineers.
Security Is An Engineering Problem
- Security issues are often engineering problems that intersect SRE, cost, and performance concerns.
- Expanding fixes beyond security lets agents optimize reliability and cost while enforcing policies.