Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In this video, I explore OpenAI’s Codex CLI tool to see how powerful it really is for coding with AI. But things quickly go off the rails… what started as a simple test ended with a surprise identity verification request. Apparently, to continue using the tool, I need to submit a government-issued ID and a photo of myself—something I didn’t expect at all. I talk through the process, show the error I ran into, and share my honest thoughts on this level of access and how invasive it feels for a developer tool.

Mend.io, formerly known as Whitesource, has over a decade of experience helping global organizations build world-class AppSec programs that reduce risk and accelerate development -– using tools built into the technologies that software and security teams already love. Our automated technology protects organizations from supply chain and malicious package attacks, vulnerabilities in open source and custom code, and open-source license risks.

Cisco Network Visibility Module Analytics (NVM): A new analytic story leveraging Cisco NVM telemetry to detect suspicious endpoint network behavior. This release includes 14 new analytics and mapped existing detections covering threats such as insecure curl usage, typosquatted Python packages, abuse of native Windows tools like rundll32 and mshta, and anomalous network connections from uncommon or argument-less processes.