Vulnerability Management Is Broken Without Unification
Unified Vulnerability Management, Built by Practitioners
DefectDojo is the open-source unified vulnerability management platform. Aggregate findings from every scanner in your security stack, deduplicate the noise, and give your AppSec team one system of action for prioritizing and remediating real risk.
The Difference Between Chasing Alerts and Managing Risk
Traditional vulnerability management treats each scanner as its own silo. Unified vulnerability management treats your entire security stack as a single source of truth.
The average security team runs a dozen or more scanners: SAST, DAST, SCA, container security, cloud security, pen test reports, and more. Each tool speaks its own format, scores risk its own way, and produces its own stream of findings. The result is tool sprawl, duplicate alerts, and vulnerability data scattered across a dozen dashboards.
DefectDojo was built by AppSec practitioners inside the OWASP community to solve exactly this problem. It ends security tool sprawl by pulling every finding into one platform, normalizing it, deduplicating it, and routing it to the people who can fix it.
One Platform for Your Entire Security Stack
Aggregate Findings From 500+ Security Tools
DefectDojo parses output from more than 500 security tools, covering SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, cloud security, infrastructure scanning, and manual pen test results. If a tool produces a report, DefectDojo can ingest it. DefectDojo Pro users can also map any JSON, CSV, or XML report with the Universal Parser, so internal tools and unsupported formats have a path into the platform too.
- Import findings via UI, REST API, or CI/CD pipeline integrations
- Normalize severity, status, and metadata across every scanner
- Keep a complete, auditable history of every finding over time
Deduplicate and Prioritize Automatically
Multiple scanners finding the same vulnerability should produce one finding, not five. DefectDojo deduplicates findings from consecutive scans of the same tool by default, and supports cross-tool deduplication to collapse overlapping results from different scanners into a single record.
- Automated deduplication with configurable hash-based and unique-ID algorithms
- Enrichment and prioritization so teams work on the most critical vulnerabilities first
- Triage automation that cuts manual review time and keeps queues focused on actionable risk
Automate Your AppSec Program
Security automation is only as good as the data underneath it. With every finding in one place, DefectDojo becomes the engine for your vulnerability management workflows.
- Enforce remediation SLAs by severity, with breach tracking and alerting
- Push findings to Jira and notify teams through the tools they already use
- Run imports on a schedule from your CI/CD pipelines so vulnerability data is always current
Report on Security Posture and Compliance
Executives want risk trends. Auditors want evidence. Engineers want their queue. DefectDojo serves all three from the same data.
- Report on security posture across teams, assets, and business units
- Support compliance and audit readiness across frameworks including SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act
- Track remediation performance and SLA adherence over time
Why DefectDojo for Unified Vulnerability Management
Born from OWASP
DefectDojo was born from the OWASP community. There is no black box and no vendor lock-in. Start with the free Community Edition and scale to DefectDojo Pro when you need advanced automation and support.
Built for Scale
DefectDojo is trusted by organizations of every size, from individual practitioners to enterprises managing millions of findings. Deploy DefectDojo Pro in the cloud, on-premises, or in air-gapped environments.
A Single Pane of Glass for AppSec
Instead of swiveling between scanner dashboards, your security team works from one prioritized queue with full context: what was found, where it lives, who owns it, and when it must be fixed.
Scanner Independence
Your vulnerability management program should not be held hostage by any single scanner vendor. DefectDojo sits above your tools, so you can add, swap, or retire scanners without losing your findings history or rebuilding your workflows.
How Unified Vulnerability Management Works in DefectDojo
Ingest
Connect your scanners and import findings automatically through the API, CI/CD integrations, or scheduled imports.
Normalize
DefectDojo parses every report into a consistent finding format with unified severity and status.
Deduplicate
Duplicate findings across scans and tools collapse into single records, cutting noise before it reaches your team.
Prioritize
Findings are enriched and ranked so the most critical vulnerabilities rise to the top.
Remediate
Route findings to owners, enforce SLAs, and track every fix to closure.
Report
Demonstrate security posture and compliance with reporting built on a complete system of action.
Frequently asked questions
What is unified vulnerability management?
Unified vulnerability management is the practice of consolidating findings from all of your security tools into a single platform where they are normalized, deduplicated, prioritized, and tracked to remediation. Instead of managing vulnerabilities scanner by scanner, security teams manage risk across the entire environment from one system of action.
How is DefectDojo different from a vulnerability scanner?
DefectDojo is not a scanner. It is the layer above your scanners. Your SAST, DAST, SCA, container, and cloud security tools find vulnerabilities; DefectDojo aggregates, deduplicates, prioritizes, and tracks them so your AppSec program runs from one place.
Is DefectDojo really open source?
Yes. DefectDojo is available under an OSI license and was born from the OWASP community. The free Community Edition is fully functional and self-hosted. DefectDojo Pro adds advanced automation, reporting, and support, and can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises, or air-gapped.
How many security tools does DefectDojo support?
DefectDojo supports more than 500 security tools out of the box. DefectDojo Pro users can also ingest any JSON, CSV, or XML report using the Universal Parser.