Shift left worked. The remediation queue still grows.
You got scanners into the pipeline.
Findings are still waiting for sprint allocation.
Detection is solved. The bottleneck is always the same: a finding enters a queue, gets triaged, gets assigned, waits for developer bandwidth. Verizon DBIR 2023 found the median time between vulnerability introduction and discovery is still 197 days.
Join the waitlistSource: Verizon, Data Breach Investigations Report 2023.
Shift left solved detection.
Remediation is still the bottleneck.
Developers dismiss scanner output when fixes aren't included.
The core adoption failure in shift-left security is that scanners create work without closing it. Organizations with automated remediation spend 50% less time on manual scan review - because developers stop ignoring findings when the fix arrives alongside the detection.
Forrester Research, "TEI of Checkmarx," commissioned by Checkmarx, 2024.
74 days MTTR for critical app vulnerabilities.
Edgescan 2025 found the median MTTR for critical application vulnerabilities is 74.3 days, with 45.4% remaining unpatched after 12 months. PR-triggered SAST catches new introductions but doesn't work through the existing backlog.
Edgescan, Vulnerability Stats Report 2025. Verizon DBIR 2023.
Every scanner is another integration to maintain.
A typical DevSecOps stack runs SAST, SCA, container scanning, secret detection, and IaC scanning - each with its own webhook configuration and dashboard. Teams who consolidated AppSec tooling recovered 85% of AppSec team efficiency.
Forrester Research, "TEI of Veracode," commissioned by Veracode, 2024.
Shift left is the detection layer.
Hyrax is the remediation layer.
Findings developers actually close
- Hyrax delivers the fix alongside the detection - the finding arrives as a PR, not a dashboard item
- Developer adoption improves because the action required is a PR review, not a remediation sprint
- 13-step verification runs pre-merge: tests pass before the PR opens
Continuous scanning across the full codebase
- Hyrax scans continuously - not only when a PR opens or a scheduled scan runs
- Discovery and Audit workflows surface findings in code without recent development activity
- Backlog reduction is built in: Improve workflow works through accumulated findings
One integration point for the full loop
- Single GitHub App installation - no per-scanner webhook configuration
- Governance rules self-generate from your codebase - no manual rule authoring
- Linear ticket lifecycle closes automatically: finding surfaces, fix executes, PR merges, ticket closes
How Hyrax fits
your DevSecOps pipeline.
| Pipeline Stage | Typical DevSecOps | Hyrax |
|---|---|---|
| Detection | SAST/SCA scanner runs on PR open or nightly | Continuous scanning - findings surface at introduction |
| Finding routing | AppSec triage > sprint backlog > developer assignment | Hyrax executes directly - no manual routing |
| Fix generation | Developer researches and implements fix manually | Hyrax generates the fix, validates before PR creation |
| CI validation | Developer-authored fix runs through CI after implementation | 13-step verification runs before PR opens |
| Audit trail | Finding in scanner, fix in Git, ticket in Jira - three systems | One PR chain: finding ID, fix diff, test results, approver |
| Backlog | Grows between sprints; requires debt-reduction sprints | Continuous execution - backlog decreases without sprint allocation |