Drowning in Alerts, Starving for Context
Vulnerability scans are inevitable - and always slower than you hoped. When they finally finish, the chaos start - dashboards are flooded with critical findings, tickets start piling up, and Slack channels explode. After many hours of chasing down answers, investigating code paths, and wrangling dev teams - it turns out, the “critical” vulnerability was never critical in the first place. Maybe this sounds familiar?
For most DevSecOps teams, false positives aren’t just frustrating - they’re paralyzing. In a world where application environments are growing more dynamic by the day, the traditional “scan and patch everything” approach just doesn’t scale. Let’s talk about why vulnerability overload is crushing teams and how validated, risk-based prioritization is the only way out.
The Reality: More Alerts, Less Context
Legacy scanners and static analysis tools are notorious for one thing: volume. Thousands of “vulnerabilities” pour in weekly. Each marked high or critical. Each demanding urgent attention. The reality?
- Many are duplicates or irrelevant
- Some are from unused code paths or inactive endpoints
- And a huge chunk are false positives
The result? Alert fatigue. Security analysts waste cycles chasing phantom issues. Developers lose trust in security. SOC teams get overloaded with noise. And the vulnerabilities that do matter? They get buried.
False Positives Come at a Real Cost
Every minute your team spends investigating a non-issue is time they’re not fixing a real, exploitable vulnerability.
False positives lead to:
- Wasted time and resources
- Delayed patching of true risks
- Strained security-developer relationships
- Increased burnout and decreased productivity
You end up building a reactive culture - one that’s chasing tools instead of securing applications.
A Better Way: Prioritize Based on Reality, Not Assumptions
At Run Security, we understand that not every vulnerability poses the same level of risk. The ones worth focusing on are those that are actively exploitable and have been validated. We help DevSecOps teams cut through the noise with prioritization that’s:
- Validation-Driven, we prioritize accurately by only surfacing vulnerabilities that are validated. Our approach begins with passive runtime analysis, confirming legitimacy through observed behavior in real-world traffic. If passive signals are insufficient, we escalate to active or syscall-level event validation to ensure the vulnerability is legitimate before it ever reaches the user.
- Context-Aware, is the vulnerable endpoint even active? Is it internal facing? Is it behind authentication? All of these are contextual clues that we surface to prioritize vulnerabilities effectively.
- Developer-Friendly, when you send a ticket, it comes with evidence. Exploit paths. Runtime behavior. No more vague, “fix it because a scanner said so.”
The Fix: Focus Your Attention Where It Counts
You don’t need more alerts. You need smarter prioritization.
By filtering out the noise and validating vulnerabilities in the context of your live environment, RunSecurity helps you:
- Stop wasting time on false positives
- Focus on high-impact, real-world risk
- Move faster with your development team - not against them
Time to Rethink What Matters
Vulnerability management shouldn’t feel like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. It’s time to cut through the noise and focus on what actually matters: real risks, backed by real context. Run Security helps you ditch the false positives, validate what’s exploitable, and move faster with your dev team—not against them.
Let your runtime be the source of truth and finally run with confidence. Run smarter, run secure, with Run Security.
