Corgea: Revolutionizing Source Code Security with AI

As an AI developer committed to advancing cybersecurity, I’m thrilled to share Corgea, a platform that proactively secures vulnerable source code. Corgea leverages AI to reduce development effort by 80%, enabling security teams to issue pull requests for source code fixes for engineering approval.

This proactive approach is an exciting leap forward in automated code hardening for security and engineering teams, providing a sense of security and confidence in the face of potential vulnerabilities.

Currently, security teams struggle to fix code vulnerabilities. They often have to negotiate with engineers to prioritize security work, which can take years to drive down vulnerability counts, leaving companies exposed for too long.

On average, it takes companies three months to fix a vulnerability, and 60% of breach victims knew about the unpatched vulnerability that was exploited (reported by Corgea). Engineers prioritize revenue-generating work, leaving security fixes lower in priority.

This can cost companies between $400 and $4,000 per fix, but with Corgea, this financial strain is significantly reduced, providing companies with a greater sense of security.

1. The Problem with Current Vulnerability Management

The current software security landscape is fraught with challenges. Security teams are often at odds with engineers, struggling to prioritize and fix code vulnerabilities. It’s a slow and costly process, with companies taking an average of three months to address each vulnerability.

During this time, systems remain exposed to potential breaches, which can have devastating consequences.

Existing security tools are largely reactive, flooding teams with alerts but offering no concrete solutions. This inefficiency is frustrating and dangerous in today’s environment, where cyberattacks are frequent and sophisticated.

The cost of fixing vulnerabilities, as we mentioned earlier, ranges from $400 to $4,000 per issue, which quickly adds up and becomes a significant financial burden. Corgea significantly reduces this burden, giving security teams relief and providing them with a powerful tool to proactively secure their source code.

2. How Corgea Works

Corgea approaches this problem with an entirely new methodology. Unlike other tools that focus solely on reporting vulnerabilities, Corgea fixes them. It connects to your existing SAST (Static Application Security Testing) and SCA (Software Composition Analysis) tools and automatically writes code fixes for reported vulnerabilities.

Security teams can issue a pull request for the fix with a single click, integrating seamlessly into existing workflows. Engineers receive the code fix for review, complete with well-written issue descriptions and AI-generated explanations to help them understand the changes.

For example, Corgea can rewrite code and issue pull requests to fix SQL injection, path traversal, SSRF, and dozens of other vulnerabilities across various languages.

3. Corgea vs. Existing Solutions

The market is flooded with tools that overwhelm security teams with alerts and are ineffective at fixing reported issues. General coding agents do not specialize in security solutions and have low success rates in prompt acceptance.

They also fail to integrate into existing scanning tools that companies use to manage their security backlogs.

Most SAST & SCA vulnerability scanners offer primitive remediation capabilities, often limited to upgrading packages to reduce a CVSS score. They lack comprehensive CWE remediation capabilities and fail to integrate into a broader ecosystem of tools.

Enterprises frequently use multiple scanners like Snyk, Semgrep, and Checkmarx and repository tools like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. Corgea consolidates across these tools, leveraging the latest in LLM technology and deep security expertise to deliver unparalleled value.

4. Case Study: Django Application Vulnerability

A practical example of Corgea’s capability is its handling of a specific vulnerability in a Django application.

The issue, CWE400 (uncontrolled resource consumption), was detected in the Django settings file due to the lack of rate limiting on the Django REST Framework. This allowed an attacker to attack Denial of Service by bombarding the application with excessive API requests.

Corgea’s AI accurately understood the context and generated a fix that limited resources for anonymous and logged-in users, throttled incoming requests, and provided an AI-generated explanation tailored to this specific fix.

5. Integrations and Usability

In my experience with the Corgea platform, I found that it seamlessly integrates with various tools commonly used in development environments. Corgea can be connected with GitHub, Azure DevOps, Snyk, Semgrep, Checkmarx, CodeQL, and Synopsys by simply adding the necessary API keys or uploading scan reports.

Here’s an example of how the integration looks like when you log i

You can add your project and your SAST report using free, open-source SAST tools, such as:

• OWASP Source Code Analysis Tools: Includes open-source or free tools list.
• GitHub Code Scanning: A free static analysis service that uses GitHub Actions and CodeQL to scan public repositories on GitHub, supporting multiple languages.
• Contrast CodeSec: Offers scanning for web apps and APIs via command line or GitHub actions, free for all projects.
• Coverity Scan Static Analysis: Integrates with Travis-CI for automated scanning, supporting over a dozen programming languages.
• HCL AppScan CodeSweep: A SAST tool that supports multiple languages and offers a free community edition.

For those looking to integrate Corgea into their CI/CD pipeline, these tools offer robust options for generating SAST reports that can be uploaded to Corgea for automated fixing of vulnerabilities.

Corgea is also working on integrating IDE extensions to support various development environments, making them even more accessible and user-friendly.

Stay tuned for more updates and insights on how Corgea can enhance your projects. As always, feel free to ask any questions or thoughts on how this technology might impact your work.