An Enterprise Security Strategy That Turns SecOps Into Heroes

The tension between security teams and developers is palpable. Developers are considered impatient risk-takers, while SecOps folks are barely tolerated as a hindrance to adopting new tools and workflows. Weekly sprints, tight deadlines, and looming security threats (especially in the GenAI and vibe coding era) exacerbate this tension. 

SecOps teams using an application risk management platform with responsible-by-design AI and application security posture management (ASPM) capabilities as the cornerstone of their strategy can change this conflict-ridden narrative. Let’s discuss how the right platform can help SecOps streamline and scale while helping developers write secure code while freeing them from time-consuming security testing practices. 

The Evolving Role Of SecOps in Modern Enterprises 

Instead of acting as gatekeepers who slow development throughput, SecOps teams can leverage ASPM and automation to prioritize the right tasks, create workflows, and enable developers to fix security flaws faster than ever.  

The right platform will: 

• Reduce friction between the development and security teams 
• Automatically prioritize security vulnerabilities with actionable insights 
• Evolve security capabilities beyond compliance to counter evolving threat complexity 

Leverage AI and Automation to Reduce Security Debt and Effort 

Organizations accumulate critical security debt when their backlog of flaws remains unremediated for over a year. Our 2025 State of Software Security (SOSS) report shows that half the organizations surveyed suffer from critical security debt.  

An AI-powered tool like Veracode Fix reduces security debt by suggesting AI-generated patches for the flaws revealed by scanning via Static Analysis (SAST) or Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Ideally, this scanning is automated within the software development lifecycle (SDLC). We’ll discuss this more in the next section. 

A modern ASPM platform further reduces manual security efforts by offering REST and XML APIs that automate security workflows programmatically. For instance, teams integrate these API calls directly into their build system. This automates the entire security testing workflow, from scanning and retrieving results to managing the security review process. 

Integrate Security Early into Your SDLC 

A modern application risk management platform helps your team integrate SAST and SCA security testing into your SDLC and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) workflows. 

For instance, the right platform for an enterprise security strategy can help developers find flaws in their code right from the IDE and CI/ CD workflows they use. They spend less time preparing manual security tests and switching between tools. 

The platform will also scan all third-party software components, such as APIs, frameworks, modules, SDKs, and plugins for flaws, irrespective of source-code access. This makes it possible to find and fix flaws before committing them to the codebase. 

Furthermore, the tool automatically categorizes flaws based on severity, category, and security quality score. This means your team will spend less time analyzing reports and prioritizing fixes. 

By lowering manual effort requirements, you enable developers to co-own AppSec outcomes. 

Make Risk Management Actionable 

An ASPM solution simplifies risk management by synthesizing all security findings from across your entire ecosystem. 

Veracode Risk Manager, for example, automatically synthesizes security findings from multiple sources such as application security tools, AWS, on-premise databases, and container images. It then normalizes, deduplicates, categorizes, and presents them in a single contextualized dashboard. As a result, SecOps teams have a clear picture of what’s on the critical remediation path and can hand pre-investigated issue work off to developers, ticket-ready directly from the platform. 

Veracode Helps Security Leaders Reduce Drudgery in Their Enterprise Security Strategy 

A solid application security strategy that has automated scanning, responsible-by-design AI, and a consolidated view of risk as the cornerstone unites development and security teams behind an authoritative risk profile and allows them to collaborate on fixing the critical path issues that matter most. 

Book a personalized demo today to understand how to unite your teams behind a common view of risk and create SecOps heroes.