OpenAI Launches Codex Security — AI Agent That Detects, Validates, and Patches Vulnerabilities Across Codebases
OpenAI is entering the enterprise security market in a serious way. On March 6, 2026, the company launched Codex Security — an AI security agent in research preview that doesn’t just find vulnerabilities, but confirms them with proof-of-concept exploits and proposes developer-ready patches. The agent was previously codenamed “Aardvark.” The new name signals intent: this is Codex — OpenAI’s flagship agentic coding system — applied specifically to the application security workflow. ...