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Today, DevSecOps platform GitLab and Google Cloud announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to deliver new privacy-first AI offerings to enterprise customers.
Under the partnership, GitLab plans to use Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to deliver new generative AI-assisted features directly to developers as part of its DevSecOps solution to accelerate the development lifecycle.
One of these features, called “Explain This Vulnerability”, uses generative AI to create a natural language description of vulnerabilities found in developer code and provide the user with recommendations on how to fix them. This means developers can write code at a fast pace while reducing the risk of vulnerabilities being overlooked.
Generative AI — an assistant that never burns out
The announcement comes as more developers sign up burnout pressured to continuously submit code, and because security vulnerabilities often go unchecked, by 79% of development professionals to give in their average application in development has 20 or more vulnerabilities.
“Organizations today need to deliver software faster than ever to stay competitive, while requiring a stronger security posture to maintain the trust of customers, investors and stakeholders,” said June Yang, VP of cloud AI and industry solutions at Google Cloud. official press release. “Together with GitLab, we can deliver generative AI functionality that enables our joint customers to increase delivery speed without compromising security.”
At a high level, this collaboration demonstrates the role generative AI can play in helping DevSecOps teams accelerate workflows to quickly identify and mitigate vulnerabilities during the development process, as part of a shift left approach.
For GitLab, this evolving partnership enables the organization to support its customers in implementing AI while protecting customer intellectual property and source code within GitLab’s cloud infrastructure. It’s an AI-enabled approach to workflows that the organization hopes will boost DevSecOps workflow tenfold.