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Asaf Saar EVP Product

Asaf Saar is EVP and Chief Product Officer at Mend.io, where he leads product strategy for the company's application security and software composition analysis platform, including its work securing AI-generated code and AI components. He joined Mend.io after more than five years as VP of Product Management at Tricentis. Asaf has spent his career building and leading product organizations at scale, with a focus on developer tooling, quality, and turning technical depth into commercial momentum.

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When the guardrails held and the attack still worked

Asaf Saar Jun 30, 2026

AI Models Risk

The guardrails held. The AI-assisted attack still worked. Here is why.

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AI changed what you ship. It also changed what you have to secure.

Asaf Saar Jun 22, 2026

AI Models Risk

AI changed what you ship and what you have to secure.

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Frontier Model Is the Wrong Meter for Continuous Security

Asaf Saar Jun 18, 2026

AI Models Risk

Why frontier model security is too costly to run as an always-on scanner.

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Why AI Can’t Verify Its Own Code and What That Means for Enterprise AppSec

Asaf Saar Jun 16, 2026

AI Models Risk

AI-generated code security needs an independent verification layer.