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Get details on Legit's new capabilities that allow teams to quickly fix what matters most.
Finding issues isn’t the problem. Enterprise security teams face a daily flood of application security findings. Often, many of these vulnerabilities stem from a singular weakness or misconfiguration point, yet they’re still typically triaged and remediated individually.
This makes remediating vulnerabilities at scale hard, even with all the necessary context to prioritize vulnerabilities. To effectively reduce the most risk possible, security professionals have to not only understand where an issue originates, but also what issues have the same origination and remediation point, and how to apply a targeted fix at scale.
With these challenges in mind, we’re thrilled to introduce Legit Root Cause Remediation, an expansion of our ASPM platform that helps large organizations fix what matters most by driving fast, contextual, prioritized, and policy-driven vulnerability remediation.
Legit Root Cause Remediation in Action
The Legit ASPM platform is now the only solution on the market that supports Root Cause Remediation – allowing companies to address multiple issues simultaneously by getting to the true source of the problem.
Focusing on remediation at the root cause of an issue, rather than tackling every vulnerability in isolation, helps AppSec and development speed and scale remediation by getting a one-to-many advantage from fixes applied. Instead of being overwhelmed by endless vulnerabilities, practitioners can prioritize fixes based on overall impact, reducing risk across the entire organization far more efficiently.
Drawing on deep code and pipeline contextual analysis, Legit pinpoints high-impact fixes that deliver a “one-to-many” remediation. This allows Legit to automatically and easily identify the most bang-for-the-buck fixes, and reduce the time and effort associated with vulnerability remediation, while strengthening customers’ application security postures at scale.
Solve More with Less, Prioritize for Impact, and Streamline Workflows
Legit Root Cause Remediation helps teams:
Solve more with less: By addressing root causes, one fix can remediate dozens – or even hundreds – of vulnerabilities across repositories, containers, and runtime environments (e.g., updating one package to remedy 60 critical issues across code, containers, and runtime).
Prioritize for impact: Our advanced contextual analysis highlights the most critical remediation tasks first, ensuring your teams focus on what matters most for risk reduction.
Streamline developer workflows: Developers no longer need to apply redundant fixes or hunt down scattered vulnerabilities. Root Cause Remediation ensures fixes are effective, targeted, and permanent.
Cut friction between security and development: When one ticket solves all findings related to a fix, ticket sprawl dwindles and communication issues subside.
Use Case 1: Fixing Vulnerabilities Across Code, Containers, and Runtime with One Action
Imagine discovering a vulnerable library in a crucial business service – one that’s embedded not just in the codebase but also in multiple container images and even running in production. Even worse, that library brings in a number of transitive dependencies also containing vulnerabilities. Traditionally, each instance and transitive dependency vulnerability is triaged and remediated as a separate finding, wasting time and resources.
With Legit Root Cause Remediation, practitioners can clearly see the relation between all issues, along with the best singular upgrade path in the parent library within the repository. That one update cascades across all the child dependencies, fixing dozens (or even hundreds) of related vulnerabilities in the containers and runtime environment. In short, one action eliminates risk everywhere the library was used – saving your team hours of effort and reducing the chance of oversight.
Use Case 2: Protecting Business-Critical Apps From Reused Hardcoded Secrets
Let’s say your AppSec team uncovers a hardcoded secret being reused across multiple repositories that power business-critical applications and core services. Without the right tools, developers could spend days hunting down every instance, rotating the secret, and updating dependencies. Even worse, they might miss some occurrences of the secret, rotate its value prematurely, and trigger a cascade of failures – breaking essential services and causing costly downtime.
Root Cause Remediation solves this challenge by automatically identifying and grouping every location where that exact secret is used, whether it’s in source code, container configurations, or elsewhere. Once grouped, it then guides your team step-by-step to revoke and rotate the secret properly, ensuring updates are seamless and the affected systems remain operational. By addressing this problem efficiently, you’re not just remediating a risk – you’re protecting your business from disruption.
What This Means for AppSec and Developers
For AppSec practitioners, Legit Root Cause Remediation simplifies workflows by identifying high-impact fixes that improve security posture at scale. No more endless vulnerability lists – just actionable insights that drive real results.
For developers, it’s a game-changer. Instead of applying repetitive fixes or chasing down issues, they can focus on a single impactful remediation task that resolves multiple vulnerabilities. This reduces frustration, saves time, and ensures development work aligns with security priorities.
Scaling AppSec While Reducing Risk
Legit Root Cause Remediation is more than just a feature – it’s a shift in how we approach vulnerability management. By addressing the true source of security issues, teams can scale their AppSec programs, reduce complexity, and improve efficiency without compromising on risk reduction.
Ready to experience the future of application security? With Root Cause Remediation, it’s not just about fixing faster – it’s about fixing smarter.