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Harness Named a Leader in SecureIQLab's Cloud WAAP v5.0 CyberRisk Validation Report

In the August 2026 SecureIQLab Cloud WAAP v5.0 CyberRisk Validation Comparative Report, Harness Web Application & API Protection (WAAP) was named a Leader. The analysis involves actual lab testing across 12 leading Cloud WAAP vendors and shows scores for each criterion evaluated — and we're thrilled to be one of just six vendors to earn Leader status, and one of only five to meet both of SecureIQLab's "Secure by Design" and "Secure by Default" criteria.

Why engineers ignore cloud costs, and how AI Cost Management Agents fix it

Engineers ignore cloud costs because of broken feedback loops, not apathy. Learn what AI cost management is, why AEO matters more than ever, and how a cost management agent embeds accountability directly into engineering workflows. Engineers ignore cloud costs because cost data arrives too late and too disconnected from their workflow to act on.

Organizations Are Confident Their Agents Are Behaving. But They Can't Check.

The State of Agent DLC 2026 asked 700 organizations already running AI agents how confident they were across five domains: testing, security, inventory, cost, and rollback. Confidence came back between 74% and 77% in every domain we tested. In most of them, the controls that would justify it are not there. “No, I don't have a nanny cam, but I'm sure my kids are OK.

AI Code Review Loop in the Terminal: Introducing Harness CLI for Harness Code

Every developer knows the fatigue of the "12-tab code review dance": Agents have become first class citizens in SDLC and AI coding agents author code alongside human engineers, thus the above context switching destroys flow state. GitHub's gh CLI proved developers love the terminal, but modern delivery is tied to AI reviews, pipeline executions, risk scoring, and autonomous agents, not just git hosting.

Monitor Query Costs & Verify Database Changes Automatically

See how Harness Database DevOps and DBmarlin work together to give you full visibility into query performance, automated deployment verification, and AI-assisted database change authoring - all inside your CI/CD pipeline. Most teams deploy database changes blind - they push a schema migration and hope nothing breaks. This demo shows a better way: DBmarlin surfaces the cost and performance of every query before and after a change, while Harness CV uses AI/ML to automatically detect regressions and block bad deployments from reaching production.

Continous ORT Testing with Harness

Most Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) programs follow the same ritual. A checklist gets filled out. Someone runs a load test in a war room the week before launch. A failover drill gets scheduled, and everyone hopes it goes cleanly. Then the release is shipped, and testing is done. But with Harness, you can make this process continuous, and your service resilience is protected by the same ORT checklist for every small change in your SDLC.

Improvise your Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) with Harness

Most Operational Readiness Testing (ORT) programs follow the same ritual. A checklist gets filled out. Someone runs a load test in a war room the week before launch. A failover drill gets scheduled, and everyone hopes it goes cleanly. Then the release is shipped and testing is done. But with Harness you can make this process continuous and your services resilience is protected with the same ORT check list with every small change that is happening in your SDLC.

Microsoft Took 8 Months to Fix This Copilot Vulnerability

Microsoft finally patched a critical Copilot vulnerability nearly eight months after researchers first disclosed it — and the way the attack worked raises some unsettling questions about AI memory. The vulnerability chained together multiple flaws that could allow a malicious prompt hidden inside a webpage to be pulled into Copilot simply by asking it to summarize the page. From there, the attack could potentially access connected data from services like Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar and exfiltrate that information using Copilot’s own capabilities. But the most concerning part may have been persistence.