Why We Started RSOLV: The Security Debt Crisis

Every development team has a different relationship with security debt.

Some teams dutifully run security scans, file issues in Jira, and then… nothing. Those tickets drift to the bottom of the backlog, buried under feature requests and “urgent” bugs.

Others check their security dashboards religiously, watching the vulnerability count climb week after week, paralyzed by the sheer volume and unsure where to start.

And many teams? They’re flying blind – no scans, no dashboards, just hoping their dependencies aren’t harboring the next Log4Shell.

But here’s what they all have in common: security work doesn’t ship features, doesn’t wow customers, and doesn’t make the quarterly roadmap. Until something breaks.

The Problem with Traditional Security Tools

Traditional security scanners are great at finding problems but terrible at solving them. They generate reports with hundreds of vulnerabilities, then leave teams to figure out what to do next.

The result? Security work competes with feature development for developer time. And features always win because they’re visible to customers and leadership.

Meanwhile, security vulnerabilities accumulate in backlogs, creating technical debt that grows until something breaks.

The Insight

While consulting with development teams, I kept seeing the same pattern: comprehensive security tooling, regular scans, detailed reports - but vulnerabilities still sitting unfixed for months.

The Equifax breach drove this home. They knew about CVE-2017-5638 for months but never patched it. The vulnerability wasn’t unknown; it was just sitting in their backlog.

This isn’t a technology problem - it’s a process problem. Security tools excel at detection but fail at the critical step: making fixes happen.

Automation Changes Everything

Modern language models show promise at understanding code patterns and generating contextually appropriate fixes when given sufficient context. They can help trace data flows, recognize framework conventions, and suggest remediation approaches.

But the real value isn’t replacing human judgment - it’s accelerating the research and implementation phases that make security fixes so time-consuming.

What if instead of generating reports, security tools generated pull requests? What if vulnerability remediation looked like code review instead of context switching? What if security debt decreased automatically instead of accumulating indefinitely?

That’s the vision behind RSOLV: turning security findings into ready-to-review fixes, so your team can focus on validation rather than implementation.

Building for Developers, Not Security Teams

Most security tools are built for security professionals. They assume deep security knowledge, dedicated security staff, and processes that most development teams simply don’t have.

We’re building for the 90% of teams that just want their applications to be secure without becoming security experts. Teams that want to ship features without accumulating technical debt. Teams that need security fixes to be as automatic as dependency updates.

Security fixes shouldn’t require heroics. Make them automatic.

Ready to eliminate security debt from your development workflow? Start your free trial and see how automated remediation changes everything.