The Security Paradox: From Finding Fast to Fixing Faster
In the past few years, enterprises have significantly leveled up their security tooling. From static and dynamic scanners to API posture tools, secrets detectors, and SBOM generators, organizations have never been better equipped to identify risks across their code, infrastructure, and supply chains.
But this progress has come with an unintended consequence: The more vulnerabilities we discover, the harder it’s becoming to fix them.
This is the security paradox facing today’s CISOs, CTOs, and engineering leaders.
Security Maturity ≠ Security Closure
According to industry reports, the average time to fix a vulnerability in 2024 reached 204 days—nearly seven months.
What’s changed? Organizations aren’t struggling with visibility anymore. They’re struggling with velocity, the ability to remediate vulnerabilities at the pace they’re being uncovered.
This has created a visible disconnect:
Security teams know where the risks are.
Engineering and DevOps teams are already stretched thin.
Vulnerability queues keep growing.
Product delivery slows down.
And boardroom concerns escalate.
It’s no longer enough to detect vulnerabilities. The real challenge, and opportunity, lies in fixing them at scale, fixing them autonomously.
What’s Fueling the Remediation Bottleneck?
A few compounding realities are driving this problem:
Volume: Multiple tools across the stack flag thousands of findings—many of them duplicative.
Fragmentation: Code, infrastructure, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines all live in different domains with different owners.
Manual Workflows: Fixes require human triage, patching, testing, and PR creation—often across silos.
Limited Engineering Bandwidth: Developers are focused on features and delivery; security work is often viewed as a tax.
Traditional approaches have hit the ceiling. All the leading security platforms are excellent at flagging issues, often leave the burden of fixing on human teams.
The Rise of Autonomous Security Engineers
To address this remediation gap, a new class of solutions is emerging—autonomous security engineers designed not just to find vulnerabilities, but to fix them at scale.
One of the key challenges faced by enterprises is determining who is responsible. We all know the theoretical and utopian answer, it's everyone, still the industry average to fix a vulnerability is 204 days.
One such system is Ana, a platform of autonomous engineers. Ana is built to solve exactly this paradox. Ana doesn’t just function as a standalone. What makes it truly transformational is its trio of Autonomous Engineers, the three amigos working together autonomously.
Autonomous Software Engineer – Understands and fixes application code, dependencies, and logic vulnerabilities.
Autonomous Security Engineer – Identifies, prioritizes, and remediates vulnerabilities across the stack.
Autonomous SRE/DevOps Engineer – Handles infrastructure issues, configuration drift, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud posture.
These three AI agents work in unison—because in the real world, security issues live across code and infrastructure.
For example:
A misconfigured API gateway? That’s DevOps + Security.
A vulnerable dependency in a backend service? That’s Software + Security.
A hardcoded secret in CI/CD pipelines? All three must act together.
Ana is the only platform where these roles are tightly integrated and fully autonomous, turning triage into action at enterprise scale.
What the Future of Remediation Looks Like
Here’s how autonomous systems are redefining what’s possible:
This shift isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about restoring focus. When remediation becomes autonomous, developers reclaim time to build, and security teams regain strategic oversight instead of chasing backlogs.
Closing Thoughts: From Awareness to Action
Security maturity isn’t about how many tools you have—it’s about how fast you can respond.
In a world where every vulnerability alert adds pressure, detection is no longer the endgame. Resolution is. And the only way to achieve resolution at enterprise scale is through automation that spans software, security, and infrastructure in a unified, intelligent way.
Autonomous security engineering isn’t science fiction. It’s becoming essential infrastructure.
Want to Learn More?
Explore how autonomous engineering systems like Ana are helping enterprises shift from visibility to velocity:
Download the Insightful eBook Fixing at Scale – The Future of Security Remediation
Suggested Blog: Meet your Autonomous Security Engineer
What's Next?
In the coming days, I will be publishing another blog that will share additional insights and case studies. Stay Tuned. Share your comments, thoughts and feedback.
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