DefectDojo has introduced next-generation Security Operations Center (SOC) functionality within its Pro platform, giving SOC and AppSec teams unified workspace for triaging alerts, managing vulnerabilities, and acting on high-risk findings. The expanded platform enables organizations to streamline their security workflows, reduce duplicated effort, and prioritize actions based on business risk—all from a single interface.
Shared Alert Fatigue Drives the Need for a Unified Platform
Security teams today are overwhelmed by alert volume.
Greg Anderson, Founder and CEO of DefectDojo, explains: “When I started my career in security, the average company used 6 security tools. Now the average is 22. Whether you’re a member of the SOC or AppSec team, their greatest challenge is dealing with the sea of alerts that comes from their respective tools. How do you deal with duplicates? How do you deal with false positives? How do you accurately track changes? How do you prioritize?”
Anderson says that these challenges, once viewed as separate, have become a shared burden. Initially focused on AppSec and security testing, DefectDojo found that many customers were already adapting the platform for SOC use cases. That organic shift inspired the company to formally support both teams under one system.
“We solved this in AppSec and security testing, but customers started finding ways to make our platform work with SOC tools organically. With this realization, inspired by our customers, we leaned into this problem to make it a primary use case rather than a workaround.”
Scaling Analysis: From Millions of Findings to Dozens of Actionable Alerts
Real-world usage data highlights the platform’s impact. Some customers process up to five million findings per month through DefectDojo. Before prioritization, that volume is reduced to 1.3 million findings, saving an estimated 1.85 million hours of manual review per month.
On average, a company starting with 30,000 findings might see that list narrowed down to just 80 that require urgent action. “DefectDojo unlocks the impossible for both teams – the ability to review, prioritize, and act at scale,” says Anderson.
Contextual Risk Scoring and Rules Engine Help Teams Focus Faster
The platform’s risk-based prioritization engine evaluates findings based on factors like exploitability, reachability, revenue impact, compliance risk, and sensitive data exposure. This helps security teams address what matters most without drowning in low-priority alerts.
“We spotlight a customer’s greatest risks so they can act, rather than searching for the needle in the haystack,” Anderson explains.
The newly added Rules Engine complements this by enabling security teams to build workflows without writing code. Teams can automatically escalate, de-escalate, enhance, or annotate findings based on custom conditions—freeing up time and increasing consistency across large teams and environments.
“Customers write rules to automatically manipulate, edit, enhance, add custom remediation advice, escalate, or de-escalate specific findings—all without significant human effort,” Anderson adds.
Designed for Security Professionals at Any Scale
DefectDojo also supports a broad partner ecosystem, including managed security service providers (MSSPs) that need to manage high alert volumes across diverse client environments. By offering flexible deployment and scalable integration strategies, DefectDojo helps MSSPs reduce alert fatigue while maintaining consistent response speed and quality.
“Unlike other security platforms that exclusively cater to large enterprises, DefectDojo is a tool made for all security professionals, from solo practitioners to large enterprises,” says Anderson.
“With each tool we integrate with, we develop a unique strategy for consolidation, which is what makes the platform so accurate and able to address such a large user base and problem set.”
Designed by security professionals for security professionals, the platform functions as a “security co-pilot,” automating much of the manual triage work that often slows down service delivery. The company’s open-source edition has seen over 43 million downloads and is used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide.
