In today’s rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, the sheer number of security tools available to scan your pipeline is constantly increasing. With new tools entering the market at an unprecedented pace, it can be challenging to manage overlapping findings and determine which tools excel in specific areas. The overwhelming amount of data generated can make it difficult to focus remediation efforts and build a comprehensive security posture.

Vulnerability management tools like DefectDojo address this challenge by correlating findings from various security tools, including SAST, DAST, SCA scanners, and image/container/posture scanners, presenting them on a single pane of glass. By creating a data model of your product stack and security engagements, and enriching it with metadata such as internet exposure and criticality, security management can make informed decisions on prioritizing vulnerability mitigation and remediation across your product range.

DefectDojo enables the triage of findings—filtering out non-applicable findings, false positives, and deduplication—prior to assigning them as work items, regardless of the source. While traditional process-based approaches can still be utilized, DefectDojo offers users the capability to automate much of the process. Allowing teams to run multiple security tools in parallel, comparing their outputs to determine the most effective solutions for your security needs.

Why is this important? According to the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report (verizon.com/dbir), accelerating the patching of critical vulnerabilities is crucial. By filtering out irrelevant data and enabling developers to focus on quickly remediating critical vulnerabilities through risk-based SLAs, you can significantly reduce the time from vulnerability disclosure to remediation. Additionally, integrating tools through APIs and automating the processing, prioritization, deduplication, and assignment of findings to the appropriate developers further increases remediation velocity.