Evaluating and Preventing Security Smells in AI-Generated Ansible Code

AI coding assistants generate Infrastructure as Code, yet no work has examined whether this code meets security requirements. This matters because security smells in infrastructure code propagate to deployed systems, producing infrastructure that is insecure and untrustworthy. We evaluate 16 AI...

Trust but Verify? Uncovering the Security Debt of Autonomous Coding Agents

The increasing adoption of autonomous coding agents accelerates software development but also introduces scoped security risks within high-impact file paths that can outpace traditional human review capacity. While prior research has primarily evaluated these systems in terms of functional...

Can Developers Rely on LLMs for Secure IaC Development?

We investigated the capabilities of GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash for secure Infrastructure as Code IaC development. For security smell detection, on the Stack Overflow dataset, which primarily contains small, simplified code snippets, the models detected at least 71% of security smells when prompt...