AI Coding Security For Dummies - Free Wiley Book

AI Coding Security - for Dummies Book

AI coding has gone from novelty to default. Developers and citizen developers alike now describe what they want in plain English and let an agent write, run, and modify the code - much of it on a laptop, much of it never read by a human. But the code is only the tip of the iceberg. Around it sits an entire agentic AI fabric: coding agents, Cowork agents, Skills, MCP servers, hooks, and the endpoints all of it runs on. Most of that ecosystem operates with little or no governance, and it lives on the one layer EDR and AI gateways were never built to see.

Published by Wiley and written by Chris Minnick, this special edition maps that ecosystem and shows you how to secure it. You don't need to be a developer, and you don't need to be a security specialist. Whether your teams are running Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, or Gemini CLI, download the book to learn:

  • What the agentic AI fabric on your endpoints is actually made of - agents, Skills, MCP servers, context windows, and the four components that can execute code on your behalf
  • A four-part threat model covering supply chain risk in Skills and MCP servers, excessive agent permissions, prompt injection, and AI-generated vulnerabilities at machine speed
  • The five-step framework from visibility to posture, governance, tracing, and real-time protection - plus a buyer's checklist of five questions to ask any vendor
  • Ten moves to make before you scale, and the real incidents that prove none of this is hypothetical, including the agent that deleted a production database during a code freeze and the 157 malicious Skills found in a study of 98,000
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AI Coding Security For Dummies - Free Wiley Book

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February 23, 2026

Published by Wiley and written by Chris Minnick, this special edition maps that ecosystem and shows you how to secure it. You don't need to be a developer, and you don't need to be a security specialist. Whether your teams are running Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, or Gemini CLI, download the book to learn:

  • What the agentic AI fabric on your endpoints is actually made of - agents, Skills, MCP servers, context windows, and the four components that can execute code on your behalf
  • A four-part threat model covering supply chain risk in Skills and MCP servers, excessive agent permissions, prompt injection, and AI-generated vulnerabilities at machine speed
  • The five-step framework from visibility to posture, governance, tracing, and real-time protection - plus a buyer's checklist of five questions to ask any vendor
  • Ten moves to make before you scale, and the real incidents that prove none of this is hypothetical, including the agent that deleted a production database during a code freeze and the 157 malicious Skills found in a study of 98,000