Antares: a Security Analyst That Never Leaves Your Laptop – Security Loop Series, Part 1

Picture that Tuesday morning we’ve all had. A new advisory lands in your inbox: CWE-22, path traversal, and it names a dependency you ship in production. The advisory tells you what class of bug exists. It does not tell you where it lives in the 300-file repo now staring back at you. So begins the triage tax: an engineer, a coffee, and two hours of grep before anyone can even start the conversation about whether you’re exposed. Multiply by every advisory, every repo, every quarter. That’s not a security problem, that’s a payroll problem! Hold on to that Tuesday. This series is about answering it properly, end to end. It takes five posts to get there, each answering one question: Where should I look? That’s this post. Is what I found there actually real? That’s Part 2. How do I make sure nobody, human or AI, ever writes it again? That’s Part 3. Does that prevention actually work? That’s Part 4, a controlled experiment, because a security control you haven’t measured is just a hope. Can all of this run as one loop? That’s Part 5. These questions can be addressed with some very interesting Cisco-originated projects, and I like…