Why We Started RSOLV: The Security Debt Crisis
Every development team knows the feeling. Monday morning, you open your security dashboard, and there they are: dozens, sometimes hundreds of security vulnerabilities staring back at you. Critical. High. Medium. The list seems endless.
You know you should fix them. Your team knows it too. But when do you find the time?
The Security Debt Avalanche
According to Veracode’s State of Software Security 2024, 71% of organizations are struggling with security debt - vulnerabilities that persist for over a year. The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 puts the average breach cost at $4.45 million, yet teams continue pushing security fixes to “next sprint.”
Why? Because the current approach is fundamentally broken.
The Problem with Traditional Security Tools
Traditional security scanners are great at one thing: finding problems. They’ll happily generate reports with hundreds of vulnerabilities, complete with CVSS scores and remediation “guidance.” But then what?
Your developers need to:
- Understand the vulnerability
- Research the fix
- Implement the solution
- Test it doesn’t break anything
- Get it through code review
- Deploy it to production
For each vulnerability. Multiply that by hundreds, and you see why security debt keeps growing.
The Personal Breaking Point
I experienced this firsthand while leading development at a fast-growing startup. We had all the tools - static analysis, dependency scanning, penetration testing. Our security posture looked great on paper.
Then we got breached.
Not because we didn’t know about the vulnerability. It had been in our backlog for six months. We just never found time to fix it between feature development and customer emergencies.
That breach cost us a major enterprise customer and months of engineering time. But it taught me something crucial: knowing about vulnerabilities isn’t enough. We need to make fixing them as easy as finding them.
The Vision for Automated Resolution
What if security tools didn’t just find problems but fixed them too? What if instead of a report saying “SQL injection vulnerability in user.js line 42,” you got a pull request that actually fixed it?
That’s the vision behind RSOLV. We’re building the first security platform that generates actual code fixes, not just vulnerability reports.
Why Now?
Three trends make this the perfect time for automated security resolution:
1. AI Can Understand Code Context
Modern language models can understand not just syntax but the semantic meaning of code. They can trace data flows, understand framework conventions, and generate contextually appropriate fixes.
2. Security Patterns Are Learnable
Through analyzing thousands of vulnerabilities, we’ve found that most follow predictable patterns. A SQL injection in Node.js looks similar whether it’s in an e-commerce app or a SaaS platform. These patterns can be codified and automated.
3. The Skills Gap Is Widening
The cybersecurity industry faces a 3.5 million person talent shortage according to (ISC)² research. We can’t hire our way out of this problem. We need automation.
Building Something Different
RSOLV isn’t just another security scanner with better detection. We’re reimagining the entire workflow:
Traditional approach: Scan → Report → Backlog → (Maybe) Fix
Our approach: Scan → Fix → Pull Request → Merge
The difference? With RSOLV, security fixes happen automatically. No more security debt accumulation. No more choosing between features and fixes.
The Road Ahead
We’re starting with the most common vulnerability patterns across popular languages and frameworks. Our goal isn’t to find every possible security issue - it’s to automatically fix the ones that actually matter.
This is just the beginning. As we learn from each fix, our system gets smarter. As we support more frameworks, our coverage expands. As more teams use RSOLV, security debt becomes a thing of the past.
Join Us
If you’re tired of security reports that go nowhere, if you believe fixing should be as easy as finding, if you want to be part of solving the security debt crisis - we want to hear from you.
Security doesn’t have to be a burden. It can be automatic.
RSOLV is currently in development. Sign up for early access to be among the first to eliminate your security debt automatically.