Scaling security updates across massive codebases is traditionally slow and error-prone. By combining secure-by-default frameworks with AI-powered codemods, Meta demonstrates how to automate large-scale security migrations, reducing developer friction and improving app safety at scale.
Even seemingly simple engineering tasks — like updating an API — can become monumental undertakings when you’re dealing with millions of lines of code and thousands of engineers, especially if the changes are security-related. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mobile security, where a single class of vulnerability can be replicated across hundreds of call sites scattered throughout a sprawling, multi-app codebase serving billions of users.
Meta’s Product Security team has developed a two-pronged strategy to address this:
The result is a system that can propose, validate, and submit security patches across millions of lines of code with minimal friction for the engineers who own them.
On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig talks to Alex and Tanu, from Meta’s Product Security team about the challenges and learnings from the journey of making Meta’s mobile frameworks more secure at a scale few companies ever experience. Tune in to this episode and join us as we explore the compelling crossroads of security, automation, and AI within mobile development.
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