# AKA Security > AKA embeds forward deployed security engineers with AI-first teams to build the security controls their environment needs. The Security Factory builds them to production grade and keeps them current. Every link below is a Markdown copy of the page. Drop `index.md` from the URL for the HTML. [llms-full.txt](https://akasecurity.io/llms-full.txt) holds the company facts and the core pages in one file. ## Company - [Home](https://akasecurity.io/index.md): AKA embeds forward deployed security engineers with AI-first teams. The Security Factory builds the controls your environment needs and keeps them current. - [How we build](https://akasecurity.io/forward-deployed/index.md): Forward deployed security engineers who embed with your team and build the controls your environment needs. - [About](https://akasecurity.io/about/index.md): Security engineers for teams building with AI. - [FAQ](https://akasecurity.io/faq/index.md): Common questions about AKA Security, the Security Factory and AI Traffic Control. - [Contact](https://akasecurity.io/contact/index.md): Talk to an engineer at AKA Security. ## Security Factory - [Security Factory](https://akasecurity.io/technology/index.md): How the Security Factory builds, tests and runs each control. - [Flightcrew](https://akasecurity.io/technology/flightcrew/index.md): Six agents that write, test and review each control the Security Factory builds. - [AI Traffic Control](https://akasecurity.io/technology/ai-tc/index.md): AI Traffic Control keeps regulated data on your machine and checks every prompt and tool call before it runs. - [AI-TC Enterprise](https://akasecurity.io/technology/ai-tc-enterprise/index.md): One signed AI Traffic Control policy across every endpoint. ## Open source - [Open source](https://akasecurity.io/open-source/index.md): The open-source tooling AKA brings to every engagement. - [ai-tc](https://github.com/akasecurity/ai-tc): Guardrails for the agent harness. Every prompt and tool call checked before it runs. - [claude-tools](https://github.com/akasecurity/claude-tools): A hardened baseline for Claude Code: clean context, locked credentials, guarded egress. - [preflight-skills](https://github.com/akasecurity/preflight-skills): Multi-harness development skills. - [flightcrew-skills](https://github.com/akasecurity/flightcrew-skills): An independent multi-model review crew for coding agents. Report-only. - [marketplace](https://github.com/akasecurity/marketplace): One place to install every AKA tool, across Claude Code, Codex and more. ## Research - [Research](https://akasecurity.io/research/index.md): Security hiring research written by agents in the Research Factory from about 200,000 job postings a day. Each answer shows its ratings and the tests behind it. - [How the research is made](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-hiring-research/index.md): How the Research Factory collects job postings, rates every answer and stress-tests it before it publishes. - [Research changelog](https://akasecurity.io/research/changelog/index.md): Every release of the security hiring research, tagged, with each change to a figure, rating or finding. - [Ask the research](https://akasecurity.io/research/ask/index.md): Ask the Research Factory a question about security hiring. Our team reads every question. - [Are Security Specialties Turning Into Engineering Jobs? Detection, Identity and General Security Roles Are](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-specialties-engineering-jobs/index.md): US security job postings, spring 2024 against 2026: detection and response, identity and general security roles moved toward engineering. GRC picked up automation without becoming a coding job. Privacy shows no measurable move toward engineering. - [Is Security Leadership Contracting? Not Measurably: The Manager Share of Postings Held](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-leadership-contraction/index.md): US security postings, spring 2024 against 2026, under the same rules in both years: the manager share of postings held, 7.7% and 6.8%. People management read from the posting text shows no measurable change, and senior individual contributor titles rose. - [What Do Companies Expect of Entry-Level Security Hires? A Smaller Share Accepts Zero to Two Years](https://akasecurity.io/research/entry-level-security-hiring/index.md): US security job postings, 2024 against 2026: a smaller share accepts two years or less. Entry postings mention Python about twice as often as in 2024, and firmly require degrees more often than postings asking three years or more. - [What AI Skills Do Security Job Postings Ask For? AI Expectations Went From Almost None to More Than a Third of Postings](https://akasecurity.io/research/ai-skills-in-security-postings/index.md): AI asks in security postings went from almost none in 2024 to more than a third in 2026. Senior individual contributors are asked to secure AI more often than peers and managers, executives to govern it. - [How Does Security Hiring Differ by Company Size and Industry? Startups Firmly Require Degrees About 60% as Often](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-hiring-by-company-size-and-industry/index.md): Startup postings firmly require degrees about 60% as often as enterprise postings, a likely but borderline gap, and ask more often for securing AI. Defense postings lead on clearances. - [When a Security Posting Expects AI, Are Managers Asked to Stay Hands-On? More Often: 78% Against 43%](https://akasecurity.io/research/ai-and-hands-on-security-managers/index.md): 149 security people-manager postings read by three AI models: manager postings that expect AI ask for hands-on work in 78% of 32 cases, against 43% of 47 without. - [How Does Security Hiring Differ at AI-First Companies? More Engineering Openings per Security Engineering Opening](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-hiring-at-ai-first-companies/index.md): Postings at AI-first companies against everyone else: more engineering openings per security engineering opening, more AI work, SOC 2 named twice as often. - [Which Security Roles' Posted Pay Ranges Rose Most Since 2024? Posted Pay Rose Across Security Postings, After Inflation Too](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-pay-ranges/index.md): Posted security pay midpoints are 27.4% above spring 2024, 19.3% after inflation. GRC, engineering and detection roles all rose, and none measurably led. - [How Do Engineering and Non-Engineering Titles Split Across Security Job Openings? Engineer Titles Went From 34% to 58%](https://akasecurity.io/research/security-engineering-titles/index.md): US security job postings in spring 2024 against postings at US-headquartered companies in 2026, under the same rules in both years: engineer titles went from 34% to 58%. Individual contributor postings moved, and so did manager and executive postings. - [How Are Security Job Postings Screening and Authenticating Candidates? Scam Warnings Rose, and a Few Employers Now Name Identity Checks](https://akasecurity.io/research/candidate-screening-and-authentication/index.md): US security job postings, 2024 against 2026: recruiting-scam and impersonation warnings went from 0.7% to 11.3%. A few employers now name identity checks. ## Optional - [Press kit](https://akasecurity.io/press/index.md): Logos, color and the company description. - [Privacy](https://akasecurity.io/privacy/index.md): How AKA Security handles data. AI-TC runs locally and never sends your tool calls to us. - [Terms](https://akasecurity.io/terms/index.md): Terms governing your use of akasecurity.io and your product and SaaS use of AKA Security's Services. - [MSA](https://akasecurity.io/msa/index.md): The Master Services Agreement governing professional security services AKA Security performs under a Statement of Work.