Ken Ammon
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 2, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for forbes.com
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Why Implicit Trust Is Breaking Software Security (opens the original)
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Ken Ammon is CEO of CodeHunter, a serial entrepreneur who exited OPĀQ and NetSec, and former U.S. Air Force captain at the NSA. For decades, enterprises have trusted software once it cleared a familiar set of checks. A commercial application came from an approved vendor, so it was installed. An open-source package came from a known repository, so it was pulled into a build. An internal script came from a developer or automation job, so it ran. That model made sense when software moved more slow
Supply Chain Attacks Are Forcing Threat Detection To Focus On Code (opens the original)
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Ken Ammon is CEO of CodeHunter, a serial entrepreneur who exited OPĀQ and NetSec, and former U.S. Air Force captain at the NSA. The Shai-Hulud 2.0 supply chain attacks exposed a structural weakness in enterprise security: how organizations determine whether software should run in the first place. Enterprise security has historically invested more heavily in detecting suspicious behavior after execution than in preventing untrusted code from executing in the first place. By the time alerts rea
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