Broadcom beefs up Spring security to protect against AI-enabled attacks

“Spring is one of the most widely adopted application development frameworks in the world, and as its steward, we have a deep responsibility for its security,” said Purnima Padmanabhan, vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s Tanzu Division. “Because we maintain Spring and are the sole committers, we can better secure it at the source for everyone who depends on it. This investment is about two things we will never separate: the health of the Spring community and the security of our customers who trust Spring to run their business.”

The company also announced that, as the number of security advisories reported by the community has exploded, its engineering team has “significantly scaled” its use of AI tools to help it identify vulnerabilities, assess remediation paths, and validate fixes across the dependency ecosystem. Although Broadcom declined to specify the AI models it’s using in its bug hunting, it is a member of Anthropic’s Project Glasswing,…