Your vulnerability backlog.
Burned down.
Burndown Security installs the Burndown System — an AI remediation pipeline that triages every finding, separates the handful that matter from the hundreds that don't, ships the fixes as tested pull requests, and keeps running after we leave.
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// the reality
The scanner isn't the problem.
The backlog is.
Forty pages of findings. Nobody has time to read it, let alone fix it.
900 open findings, 40 marked critical. Maybe 5 are real. Nobody knows which 5.
SOC 2 asks how findings get fixed. The honest answer: sporadically, by whoever has time.
Every sprint bleeds days into patch work. Work a system should be doing.
# Before: your scanner dashboard right now
open_findings: 932
critical: 41
oldest: 14 months
remediation_owner: "whoever has time" # nobody has time
last_full_triage: never
# After: the Burndown System's first pass
triaged: 932 of 932 # every finding gets a verdict, with reasoning
real_threats: 17 # reachable, exploitable, worth an engineer's time
documented_noise: 915 # suppressed with evidence, not ignored
fix_prs: 17 opened, 17 merged # tested, scoped, through your review process
open_findings: 0 # and the system keeps it there
// the flagship
The Burndown System.
One pipeline, four stages. It reads every finding your scanners produce, decides what's real, fixes it, and proves it — installed in your infrastructure, running on every new scan.
Ingest
Every feed you have — dependency scanners, SAST, container and cloud findings, even the pentest PDF. One queue, no finding left uncounted.
Triage
AI-driven analysis of reachability, exploitability, and your actual architecture. Every finding gets a verdict — real or noise — with the reasoning written down.
Fix
Tested pull requests into your repos, through your review gates. Upgrades, patches, config hardening — scoped small enough to actually merge.
Prove
A continuous evidence trail — verdicts, diffs, test runs — exported for your auditor, your enterprise customers, and your board. The backlog metric goes down and stays down.
Beyond the backlog
The backlog is where every engagement starts — it's urgent, measurable, and nobody else wants to touch it. But the Full Security Stack draws on the whole toolbox:
- Kubernetes & EKS hardening
- AWS security baselines
- CI/CD pipeline lockdown
- OIDC & credential elimination
- GitHub org security
- Container & runtime security
- Compliance-as-code (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
- Security questionnaire automation
// the process
Point it. Burn it. Keep it.
Point it at your stack
Read-only access to your repos, scanner feeds, and cloud accounts. The system ingests everything and produces the first full triage report within days — every finding, a verdict, the reasoning.
Burn the backlog
Fix PRs flow through your normal review process — tested, scoped, one concern each. You watch the open-findings count fall on your own dashboard, not in a slide deck.
Keep the system
The pipeline lives in your infrastructure and runs on every new scan. Your engineers own it — code, prompts, and playbooks. I stay on retainer only if you want the tuning.
// proof of work
Watch the system work.
On camera. No staged demos.
I film the Burndown System running against real, vulnerable infrastructure — scanner output, triage reasoning, fix PRs, failures included. This episode: 150 findings in, one real threat out.
# Every fix the system ships carries its own evidence.
# Not a spreadsheet — a versioned record your auditor can read.
finding "critical deserialization CVE — legacy Java service" {
verdict = "real — reachable from public upload route"
fix = pr#412 # dependency bump + regression test
status = merged # through your review gates, not around them
evidence {
triage_reasoning = attached
diff = attached
test_run = passing
exported_for = ["SOC 2 audit", "customer security review"]
}
}
Everything the system does is inspectable — the verdicts, the diffs, the test runs. Reviewed, tested, merged into your repo. You keep all of it.
// engagements
Fixed scope. Running systems. Code you keep.
No hourly billing. No scope creep. Every engagement installs automated security infrastructure you own.
Burndown Sprint
- Full triage of your open backlog — every finding gets a verdict
- Tested fix PRs for the criticals that are actually real
- Scanner noise documented and suppressed with evidence
- Remediation report for auditors & enterprise customers
- Roadmap for installing the system permanently
Burndown System Install
- Everything in the Burndown Sprint
- The pipeline installed in your CI — every new scan auto-triaged
- Fix PRs generated and routed through your review process
- Continuous evidence trail for compliance & customer reviews
- You own all of it — code, prompts, and infrastructure
Full Security Stack
- Everything in the Burndown System Install
- Kubernetes/EKS security (RBAC, network policies, pod security)
- AWS security baseline (IAM, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SCPs)
- CI/CD lockdown, OIDC credential elimination & questionnaire automation
- Monitoring, alerting & team enablement
// questions
Frequently asked. Straight answers.
What is the Burndown System, concretely?
Is it safe to let AI open fix PRs?
What scanners and inputs does it work with?
Do I need to be on AWS?
How long does a typical engagement take?
What if we already have some security in place?
What if we're early-stage or a small team?
How does AI fit into the engagement?
// latest from the blog
Security engineering insights. No fluff.
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// get started
Tell me about your backlog.
I'll tell you what's actually in it.
Let's talk
Tell me what you're running, which scanners are yelling at you, and how many findings are sitting open. I'll respond within 24 hours with an honest read on how much of it is real and what a burndown would look like.
No sales calls. No pressure. Just a straight answer from someone who does this every day.
// track record
Built by someone who's done this at scale.
Not a big consultancy. Not AI-generated output with a logo on it. One senior engineer who's secured production at Nike, ZeroFox, and IDX — who runs vulnerability burndowns at enterprise scale for a living and films the system working in public.
Most security firms hand you a report of what's wrong. I install the system that fixes it — and I film it working, on real infrastructure, so you don't have to take my word for it.
— Evan Ippolito, Founder