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Cognition acquires Corridor: First hires its security chief, then buys his former company

Beating AI breaking news,AI programming company Cognition announced its acquisition of security startup Corridor; the transaction amount was not disclosed. Earlier this year, Corridor March just raised funding at a 200000000 USD valuation 25000000 USD, specializing in security issues arising from AI code writing.

Unlike traditional post-hoc vulnerability scanning, Corridor can integrate directly with programming tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex to check for security risks while AI generates code, and can also prevent code with critical vulnerabilities from being merged. Its customers include LangChain, Lovable, and ElevenLabs.

This acquisition had been foreshadowed.September 29, Cognition had just hired Corridor's former security chief and former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos to lead its security business.October 26, it further upgraded Devin Security, integrating frontier security models such as Claude Mythos. These can not only scan for complex vulnerabilities but also assess real-world impact, allowing Devin to automatically reproduce, remediate, and test them.

Corridor excels at intercepting risks as code is written, while Devin Security already has deep-scanning and bulk-remediation capabilities. Following the acquisition, Cognition plans to combine the two capabilities so that AI will not only write code, but also participate in security assurance from development through release.

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