Secure Agentic Software Development: Beyond Vibe Coding

Posted on: 6th September 2026

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Build secure control systems for agentic software development, including specs, permissions, CI gates, and compliance mapping.

Description

Vibe coding is great for getting code written, but at production scale, it breaks because nobody is managing the engineering control system around agent-authored code. This course stood out because it teaches you exactly that: how to build the controls that prevent incidents and ensure auditability.

This Course Offers

  • A complete framework for secure agentic development: You will learn to write agent-executable specs with machine-checkable acceptance criteria and build a seven-check CI gate.
  • Practical skills in permission design and review: You will learn to design least-agency permission tiers, sandboxes, and default-deny network egress, and use a checklist tuned to real agent failure classes.
  • The ability to detect and prevent reward hacking: You will learn to detect special-casing, fixture reads, weakened assertions, and mocked-away logic.
  • Knowledge to meet compliance standards: You will map your controls to NIST SSDF, ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2 CC8.1, and PCI DSS Requirement 6.

Why We Love This Course

  1. It addresses a critical gap in AI-driven development. The course focuses on the control systems that make agentic development safe and audit-ready. You can tell it is designed for engineers who are accountable for both velocity and incidents.
  2. It is grounded in real evidence and a real incident. The course is built around a real fintech incident, making the lessons concrete and practical. This case-study approach ensures you learn from actual failures.
  3. It provides hands-on labs and practical exercises. The course includes eight labs and six assignments using open-source tooling, so you can build and test the controls yourself.
  4. It is taught by an experienced professional. The instructor has deep expertise in security and compliance, bringing practical, real-world knowledge to the course.

Secure agentic development is the next frontier in software engineering. This course provides a comprehensive, practical path to mastering it, and it is backed by a money-back guarantee if it does not meet your expectations.

Course Eligibility

  • This course is perfect for senior and staff engineers whose review load has become the bottleneck.
  • It is ideal for application-security, DevSecOps, and platform engineers owning the agent rollout.
  • The course is also great for engineering managers and CTOs accountable for velocity and incidents, as well as IT auditors and GRC leads.

Course Requirements

  • Comfort with Git, including branches, diffs, reverts, and reading a pull request.
  • Some prior use of a coding agent like Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, or Codex CLI.
  • Ability to run a CLI and a container, and read code in at least one language.

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Price: Free