# The New Security Risks of the Agentic Development Lifecycle

DevFeed: [The New Security Risks of the Agentic Development Lifecycle](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-new-security-risks-of-the-agentic-development-lifecycle-7796.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://snyk.io/blog/agentic-development-lifecycle/>)

Author: Daniel Berman

Published: 2026-06-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog RSS Feed | Snyk](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-rss-feed-snyk.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Application Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-security.md>), [sdlc](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdlc.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

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## AI overview

The article explains the agentic development lifecycle, in which AI agents plan, build, modify, test, and ship software by interacting with tools, codebases, data sources, and development environments. It argues that security must protect the process creating software as well as the resulting code, because agents can introduce risk through what they use, do, and generate.

## Source excerpt

AI agents are changing how software gets built, and with it, where security risk begins. Learn why securing the process matters as much as securing the code.