You've been lied to about security
You have been lied to about security. Not by the attackers. By the people selling you the fix.
Let me be direct. The security industry has a business model, and that model is not your safety. It is your renewal. Vendors charge you to find your vulnerabilities. They charge you again to see them. Then they charge you a third time to prove you fixed them. Per-seat taxes. Per-scanner tolls. Paywalls in front of your own data.
That is not a partner. That is a landlord.
Meanwhile, the work keeps piling up
That business model wouldn’t be as big of a problem if the job underneath it were easy. It is not.
Walk through any security team's week. Five scanners (sometimes even more) covering: SAST, DAST, SCA, cloud, container, secrets. Each one with its own format, own dashboard, and own version of the same vulnerability three different ways. Someone on your team is exporting all of it into a spreadsheet and deduplicating it by hand because the dashboard you were sold turned out to be one more place to check.
Then comes prioritization. A CVSS 9.8 lands at the top of the queue, regardless of whether anyone is actually exploiting it or whether your code even calls the affected function. So teams burn weeks patching vulnerabilities that pose no real risk while the genuinely dangerous ones remain untouched. The backlog grows. The developers you keep nagging stop reading your tickets.
And all of it lands on teams that are outnumbered. Most security organizations are a handful of people supporting hundreds of developers and thousands of services. Every tool that promised to close that gap added a login, a license negotiation, and one more export to reconcile. When the board asks whether you are fixing the right things first, the honest answer at most companies is that nobody can prove it.
More findings than ever. Less signal than ever. And a vendor ecosystem with a financial stake in keeping it that way. That is the state of play, and fixing it is the whole reason DefectDojo exists.
DefectDojo: By and for the practitioner
Matt Tesauro and I built DefectDojo for the practitioners because we were done asking permission to defend our own systems. That was over a decade ago. The Community Edition has been free and has had an OSI approved license since we first started.
And yes, I hear it already. "Greg, you sell security software too."
We do. But every day we fight to earn your trust instead of billing for it. No hostage data. No paywall in front of your findings. No black boxes in how the product works. The day DefectDojo Pro stops earning your business, the Community Edition is right there. Ask your other vendors to put that in writing.
A new flag, the same mission
Today we are flying a new flag. You will see it on defectdojo.com, in the product, and everywhere we show up. It is the same mission we’ve been in for the last ten years, just with a sharper edge.
Here is what changed underneath it. When we started, the goal was to unify the noise from every SAST, DAST, SCA, cloud, and other scanner that security teams were aggregating and triaging by hand. That is still a pillar. But we kept asking customers and the community what would actually move the needle, and the answer was consistent: finding risk is not the hard part anymore. Fixing it is.
So DefectDojo is no longer just the platform that aggregates your findings. It is the platform that identifies and fixes risk.
Already released, not on the roadmap
Talk is cheap in this industry, so here is what has already shipped.
- Threat Intelligence is now generally available. Signed intel bundles, with EPSS and CISA KEV built into prioritization, so real exploitability sets your risk floor instead of a raw severity score.
- Reachability, so you stop burning weeks on vulnerabilities your code never even calls.
- AI Threat Modeling, because your threat model should not die on a whiteboard.
- CSPM, because aggregating, prioritizing, and fixing cloud security issues should be no harder than the rest of your security program.
- Vulnerability Explorer, which takes your team from "what should we fix first" to "where does this vulnerability live."
- Triage Engine, which turns your security automation into visual node graphs you can customize, track, and replay.
- 500+ integrations, so every security tool you run can feed into DefectDojo.
- Custom roles, SCIM provisioning, and full SBOM and VEX round trips. And for federal teams: FIPS 140-3 image variants, FedRAMP deliverables, and CMMC Level 2 assessments.
And then there is DefectDojo Sensei, an AI agent built into DefectDojo that can triage, prioritize, and fix your vulnerabilities in minutes. Not summarize them. Fix them.
That’s what the last few months of releases look like at Defectdojo. And we’re only just getting started.
The practitioner sets the terms now
DefectDojo was never just another tool to sell you. It is the end of an arrangement where your security depends on somebody else's sales quarter. Your findings are yours. Your data is yours. Your exit is always open.
We fight the pricing games. We fight the lock-in. We fight every roadblock between you and real security. When you win, we win.
The new DefectDojo is live today, and all of the features I’ve mentioned are also available to use as well. Join me in the community Slack if you have any questions or are excited about joining our fight for better security everywhere.
You have paid rent on your own security long enough. Evict the landlord. Keep your findings. Keep your data. Stop accepting the lie.
Join the underground.
Greg Anderson CEO & Co-Founder, DefectDojo