The State of Secure Building 2026 | NINJIO Secure Code

You Can’t Scan Your Way Out

Scanners catch what you missed. This is not about missing it.  

AI assistants write fast — and increasingly, they write most of the codebase: 61% of it on average, and climbing.  

Here’s the catch: When they have a secure way and an insecure way to build something, AI picks the insecure option roughly 45% of the time. Your SAST and DAST tools will still catch what they can, but only after the code ships.  

This report covers the gap before that: The moment the vulnerability gets written (not the moment it gets found).  

This NINJIO report looks at what’s actually changing in how code gets built, what the data says about AI-generated code and AI-enabled attacks, what will happen over the next 12-18 months, and what it takes to make the secure path the fast path.