Releasing Products With No Known Vulnerabilities How One Software Company Reduced Total Vulnerabilities by 97.5%
Annual penetration testing provided valuable insight, but it could not keep pace with a constantly changing development environment. By embedding continuous security testing, validation, remediation support, and retesting into its release process, the company eliminated critical vulnerabilities and built a repeatable model for releasing more secure products.
Measured across annual full-scope assessments throughout the engagement.
Building secure software at the speed of development.
Instead of treating security as a periodic assessment, this software company set out to make it part of how its products were built.
Over four years, TrollEye worked alongside its security and development teams to embed continuous testing, validate findings, and strengthen remediation practices across the software development lifecycle.
The result was not simply fewer findings. It was a measurable and sustained reduction in organizational risk.
Every release introduced new risk.
With multiple fintech applications in production and new releases throughout the year, the organization’s software changed far faster than its annual security assessments could keep pace.
Traditional penetration testing remained valuable, but it represented only a snapshot in time. New vulnerabilities could be introduced months after testing was complete, leaving security teams with limited visibility and developers without timely feedback.
The company was not looking for more reports. It needed security to become part of the development lifecycle.
Annual Penetration Testing
One assessment provided visibility into a constantly changing development environment.
Continuous DevSecOps
Security validation operates alongside development instead of waiting for the next annual testing window.
Security moved inside the development lifecycle.
Rather than evaluating applications once each year, the organization adopted a continuous DevSecOps approach that identified vulnerabilities earlier, supported developers during remediation, and reduced the likelihood that known issues would reach production.
TrollEye turned security findings into developer action.
TrollEye built a continuous application security program around four connected activities: recurring testing, human validation, developer-ready remediation guidance, and retesting.
Rather than delivering another report, TrollEye worked directly with the company’s security and development teams to move each validated finding through remediation and verified resolution.
Every finding moved through a defined remediation process.
The program connected testing, validation, developer support, and verification instead of treating them as separate activities.
Test Continuously
Applications and product changes were assessed throughout the year, keeping security aligned with active development.
- Recurring application testing
- Coverage between releases
- Earlier issue detection
Validate the Risk
Findings were reviewed before reaching developers, removing noise and providing clear technical evidence.
- Human validation
- False-positive reduction
- Actionable evidence
Support Remediation
Developers received guidance to address both the immediate vulnerability and the coding pattern behind it.
- Developer-ready guidance
- Root-cause remediation
- Secure coding support
Verify the Fix
Completed remediation was retested and measured to confirm that exposure continued to decline.
- Resolution verification
- Trend measurement
- Ongoing accountability
Direct collaboration moved remediation forward.
TrollEye’s security experts worked alongside developers to explain findings, answer technical questions, guide remediation, and improve the practices that caused vulnerabilities to recur. The engagement was designed to help the team fix problems, not simply document them.
The company did not just reduce its backlog. It changed how security operated.
Continuous testing identified vulnerabilities earlier. Human validation reduced noise. Direct collaboration gave developers the context and support needed to address both individual findings and the underlying causes behind recurring issues.
Retesting then confirmed that those improvements held as new products, features, and releases continued. The organization built a repeatable security model designed to support the release of products with no known vulnerabilities.
Reduction in total vulnerabilities
The organization reduced its overall vulnerability backlog by more than 97.5%, with approximately 90% of that reduction achieved during the first 12 months.
Critical vulnerabilities
Critical vulnerabilities were reduced to zero as the organization identified issues earlier, corrected root causes, and verified that fixes remained effective.
Vulnerabilities at release
Continuous testing and remediation became part of the development lifecycle, supporting the company’s objective of releasing products with no known vulnerabilities.
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