Harness, the AI Software Delivery Platform™ company, unveiled the Harness AppSec Alliance. The new strategic partner ecosystem combines application security, API protection, and autonomous agent protection into a single platform allowing global channel partners to deliver continuous, end-to-end security across today’s modern software pipelines.
This release tackles a trend in how all software is written; albeit AI has Quite a bit shortened time-to-write and find issues, remediation cycles have not kept pace. Outdated security tools overwhelm engineering teams with business-irrelevant, false-positive results, creating risk for the organization due to existing un-patched exploits. 75% of security practitioners said shadow AI will eclipse shadow IT as a business risk, but few companies have processes in place to inventory or control AI agents.
“While the attack surface has expanded, the real crisis is no longer just discovering vulnerabilities. It is the speed at which organizations can respond to them. Modern AI systems can surface vulnerabilities far faster than security teams can triage, validate, and patch. This creates an operational bottleneck where organizations are flooded with findings but lack the capacity to remediate them, leaving them exposed despite having ‘visibility.'”
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Unifying Application, API, and Agent Security on One Platform
Built on top of the Harness AI Software Delivery Platform, the AppSec Alliance provides system integrators, VARs, and MSPs with a complete security stack. With the help of this offering, partners can integrate, deliver, and manage the following functionalities, thus improving risk management across four key technical areas:
Shift-Left SAST & SCA: Provides AI-enabled SAST and SCA capabilities straight in CI/CD pipelines. Using reachability analysis and deduplication, this solution helps users to eliminate false positives and to prioritize high-risk and reachable risks.
Supply Chain Protection for Software & AI: Automatically creates Software Bills of Material (SBOMs) and AI Bills of Materials (AIBOMs). At the same time, it performs artifact provenance and attestation, which is needed to detect zero-day vulnerabilities fast.
Web Application & API Protection (WAAP): Integrates WAF, API discovery, bot protection, and runtime attack prevention capabilities in the native API control plane, which is tailored for the needs of microservices architecture.
AI & Autonomous Agent Security: Offers visibility into all active AI endpoints and agents, performs adversarial model testing, implements runtime firewall policies and collects session telemetry using Harness AgentTrace.
“The Harness AppSec Alliance closes that gap. We’re bringing partners application security technology, built into one platform, so they can walk into an existing account and pick up spend they were never able to compete for before.”
Solving Core Channel and Customer Bottlenecks
By integrating runtime protection, vulnerability prioritization, and automated patching into a single architecture, the AppSec Alliance resolves common operational gaps that legacy security stacks miss:
Closing Runtime Gaps: Traditional web application firewalls often miss multi-step, API-targeted agentic attack chains that unfold over time.
Eliminating Signal Overload: AI-driven triage filters out noise, replacing unmanageable alert volumes with actionable remediation paths.
Accelerating Zero-Day Audits: Replaces manual, multi-month open-source exposure audits with instantaneous cross-estate dependency mapping.
Compressing Patch Windows: Connects vulnerability identification directly to automated developer workflows, ensuring fixes are deployed before exploit windows open.
The Harness AppSec Alliance program is available immediately to qualified enterprise partners worldwide. Managed service providers, technology resellers, and security integrators can evaluate platform documentation, join the ecosystem, or request an operational demonstration by visiting the official Harness partner portal.