AI Assisted Coding vs Security: Can Spec Driven Dev Help DevSecOps Win?

Thu Apr 30 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:30 pm UTC+01:00

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT | London

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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AI Assisted Coding vs Security: Can Spec Driven Dev Help DevSecOps Win?
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A look at the challenges of securing applications developed using AI coding tools and how spec driven development methods may help.
About this Event

Speaker

Roy Harrow



Agenda

18:00 - Tea, coffee and networking

18:30 - Main presentation – Roy Harrow

19:30 - Q&A, followed by light refreshments for those attending in person

20:30 - Event close



Synopsis

As AI assisted coding becomes a routine part of modern software delivery, it is transforming not only how developers write code but also how organisations must think about securing it. This talk examines the tension between rapid, AI accelerated development and the growing difficulty of ensuring that security requirements are consistently met when code is generated through “vibe coding” and other emergent AI driven practices.

We will begin by exploring how traditional application security tooling (especially static analysis) can support AI augmented workflows and look at some of the challengers. The talk will the introduce the spec driven development as an evolving approach and explore how this might provide an opportunity to include security non functional into the “specification”. We will look at some of the different approaches to spec driven development and several current tools that help implement these methods.

The session will conclude with a short case study to explore the potential impact of including security NFRs in a specification. The aim is to provide a realistic, tool agnostic model that can be developed and to start an ongoing dialogue on this topic.



About the speaker

Roy Harrow is the Chair of the DevSecOps BCS Group and has worked in a wide range of roles in information technology and information security. His experience includes financial services, public sector, security consulting and security architecture. Roy is currently working for Sainsbury's in a cloud security role as part of their information security team.


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BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 25 Copthall Ave, London, United Kingdom

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