Your developers are shipping code. Security should be finding vulnerabilities, not creating friction.

Aikido Security is a code-to-cloud application security platform that finds and fixes vulnerabilities automatically across code, cloud and runtime in one system. It consolidates scanning work that development teams typically buy as several separate products.

Code-to-cloud means securing an application across its full lifecycle rather than at one checkpoint: the source code, the dependencies it pulls in, the infrastructure it is deployed onto, and the runtime it executes in. Vulnerabilities introduced at any stage surface in a single view.

Aikido is designed to consolidate application and cloud security scanning into one platform, which removes the overhead of correlating findings across several tools with different consoles and severity scales. For smaller security teams, tool consolidation is often the practical benefit rather than raw detection depth.

Aikido prioritises findings by whether a vulnerability is actually reachable and exploitable in the deployed application, rather than reporting every theoretical match. This matters because alert fatigue, not detection capability, is what causes scanning programmes to be abandoned.

Aikido suits engineering and DevOps teams shipping cloud applications who need security scanning that fits into existing workflows rather than blocking them. It is most relevant where there is no dedicated application security team to triage findings manually.

The Kernel distributes Aikido Security across the UAE, Middle East, Africa and CIS through its channel partner network, with regional technical support for evaluation, deployment and integration into existing development pipelines.

SAST (Static Application Security Testing) scans an application's source code for vulnerabilities before it ever runs, catching issues like SQL injection, hard-coded credentials, and insecure patterns during development. DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) tests the application while it's running, simulating real attacks against a live interface to catch issues — like authentication flaws or server misconfigurations — that only surface at runtime. Most mature AppSec programs use both, since they catch different classes of vulnerability at different stages of the software lifecycle.

Application security and identity/access management address different layers of the same problem: AppSec (SAST, DAST, SCA, and related scanning) finds and fixes vulnerabilities inside an application's code and dependencies, while identity and access controls govern who can reach that application and its data once it's running. The two are complementary — strong access controls limit exposure if a vulnerability is exploited, but they don't find or fix the vulnerability itself. Organisations building a layered security posture typically need both application-layer scanning and identity-layer controls.

Aikido's AutoFix uses AI to generate a proposed code fix once a vulnerability is found in a SAST, IaC, or SCA scan, and can open a pull request with that fix directly in the developer's source control system for review and merge. It turns remediation from a manual coding task into a review-and-approve step, which is particularly useful for smaller teams without dedicated AppSec resources.