Another year, another DBIR! Verizon's latest data breach investigations report is here, and like a security onion, it's got layers. But peel it back and one thing becomes painfully clear: most teams still can’t see what’s actually happening when it counts—in runtime.

Credential abuse. Vulnerability exploitation. Third-party access gone rogue. These aren’t problems you catch with pre-deployment tools alone. And yet, most AppSec programs are still optimized for the build phase—not what happens after go-live. Attackers aren’t waiting for your next scan cycle. They're slipping in through stolen credentials, abusing trusted connections, and exploiting known vulns before your patch even makes it out of QA.

The message? AppSec needs to evolve—from “find and fix” to “see and stop.”

Key Insights from the 2025 DBIR:

• 22% of breaches involved credential abuse

• 20% stemmed from vulnerability exploitation—a 34% increase over last year

• 30% involved third-party access (vendors, partners, or external systems)

These aren’t edge cases—they’re the norm in today’s threat landscape.

The Problem: Scanners Can’t See Runtime Threats

Most organizations still rely heavily on static tools like SAST, DAST, and traditional scanners. These are essential for identifying issues before deployment—but they stop being effective once the code is live.

They don’t monitor behavior in production. They can’t detect active exploitation or credential misuse. And they offer zero visibility into how third-party components behave in real time.

This leaves security teams blind to:

• Known vulnerabilities being exploited before patches land

• Legitimate credentials being abused for unauthorized access

• Lateral movement through trusted integrations

Let’s paint the picture. You’ve locked down your cloud configs, you’ve got a ticket in the queue to patch that CVE, and your scanners are scheduled to run overnight. Meanwhile…

• On average, it takes 32 days to patch a known vulnerability.

• Credential leaks linger for nearly three months before they’re discovered.

• And most breaches? They come from attackers using valid credentials, not zero-days.

So, while your static tools are filing vulnerability reports and your dashboards glow green, someone with a stolen token is already poking around production—quietly escalating privileges, accessing services, and blending in with the noise.

This is a real scenario and it's exactly why runtime traceability matters.

What Happens After Deployment Is Still a Blind Spot

The reality is that most security tooling is designed for the pre-production phase—point-in-time scans, infrastructure checks, and code reviews. These are valuable, but they offer limited insight into what’s actually happening once the application is live.

In modern, cloud-native environments, where applications are constantly changing and communicating across services, static analysis alone isn’t enough. What’s missing is continuous, contextual understanding of application behavior in runtime.

To truly assess and respond to risk, you need real-time answers to questions like:

• Is this vulnerability actually being executed in production?

• Is this credential use legitimate, or is it lateral movement in disguise?

• Why is this container initiating new outbound traffic?

• Has this API’s behavior changed unexpectedly?

• What is this service doing—and is that normal?

Without runtime visibility, false positives blend with real threats and incidents often start with the same phrase: “we didn’t see it coming.”

How Run Security Goes the Distance

Most AppSec tools stop after deployment. They scan code, surface risk, and move on—just as attackers are gearing up in production.

Run Security doesn’t stop at the starting line. We do the distance of securing your applications at runtime. Powered by eBPF, we deliver always-active observability into how your applications, APIs, and services behave in production—without agents, performance hits, or guesswork. That means you’re covered across all the moments that matter most.

With Run Security, you get:

• Runtime Observability & Service Inventory- Understand exactly what’s running, how it behaves, and what it’s talking to—across every environment.

• Runtime API Security- See every exposed API in production—plus how it’s used, who’s calling it, and whether it’s putting data at risk.

• Runtime Vulnerability Management- Prioritize based on actual exploitability, not theoretical risk. Stop chasing false positives.

• Cloud Application Detection and Response- Catch active threats as they unfold—credential abuse, lateral movement, and exploitation attempts, all flagged in real time.

This isn’t just runtime application security. It’s everything legacy AppSec tools miss—covered continuously, contextually, and without slowing you down.

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You Don’t Need Perfect Code — You Need a Complete Picture

Let’s face it: in today’s fast-moving environments, perfect code is a myth. Applications are built quickly, updated constantly, and composed of third-party components that change without notice. You can’t control everything that gets deployed—but you can control what you see once it’s running.

SAST, DAST, and scanners are essential—they help catch issues early in the pipeline. But they only show you what might go wrong. They don’t show you what’s happening right now.

That’s where Run Security comes in.

We deliver continuous, always-active observability and security where traditional tools fall short—uncovering active threats, exploitable vulnerabilities, and showing how your applications and APIs behave in production.

Whether you need:

• Live service and asset inventory

• API discovery and runtime monitoring

• Vulnerability validation based on actual execution

• Real-time detection and response to active threats

—Run Security gives you continuous runtime context to act fast, with confidence.No more static assumptions. Just real answers to questions like:

• Is this vulnerability being exploited right now?

• Is that API call expected—or something suspicious?

• What’s really running in production—and how is it behaving?

This isn’t just enhanced detection. It’s how you move from reactive cleanup to proactive control—and stay out of next year’s DBIR.

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