The cohort of people building software has roughly doubled since the AI coding tools went mainstream, and the new entrants are not engineers. A marketing lead spins up an internal CRM in an afternoon. A finance team builds a procurement portal over a weekend. A non-technical founder ships the first version of a SaaS app between meetings. The applications work, ship, and run in production. They also bypass every security review that a normal software organisation would have applied.
What follows is the working stack of tools the actual security teams are deploying around AI-generated and so-called vibe-coded apps in 2026. The order roughly tracks how the problem decomposes: scan the code the AI produced, then the cloud account it deployed into, then the identity layer that gates access, then the threat-detection plane that catches the breach when one of the previous layers misses. Every name pulls from the live StartupHub.ai directory with funding, hiring, and customer signals behind it. The list is not a ranking. It is the order in which a competent CISO would deploy them at a company that did not previously have a CISO.


















