Ever feel like AppSec is just spinning the wheel and hoping developers hit ‘secure’? In this talk, we break down why traditional approaches like alerts and triage fail, and how smart, opinionated guardrails actually work. Using real-world examples (including a live injection vuln in a popular Python connector), we’ll walk through a repeatable framework to move from bugs → patterns → prevention. You’ll leave with a step-by-step playbook to build guardrails that scale across orgs—and eliminate entire classes of risk before the commit. No YAML shaming. No guilt trips. Just productized security that doesn’t feel like a gamble