ArmorCode

Profile

ArmorCode is a proprietary Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform delivered as a Software-as-a-Service solution that unifies vulnerability management across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, and software supply chains. Founded in July 2020 by Nikhil Gupta, the platform has achieved recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for ASPM, processing over 40 billion security findings through 320+ ecosystem integrations. ArmorCode provides an independent governance layer that consolidates disparate security scanning tools without requiring organizations to replace existing investments, enabling security teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities through AI-powered correlation and risk-based scoring rather than managing fragmented tooling ecosystems.

Focus

ArmorCode addresses the fundamental challenge of managing overwhelming vulnerability volumes from dozens of disparate security scanning tools while maintaining rapid development cycles. Organizations typically generate hundreds of thousands or millions of security findings annually across SAST, DAST, CSPM, container security, and software composition analysis tools, creating massive alert fatigue and obscuring true risk. The platform solves this through its "Unify. Prioritize. Remediate" framework, consolidating findings into normalized data stores, deduplicating across tools, and calculating risk-based scores that combine technical severity with business context. Target users include application security teams, product security leaders, infrastructure and cloud security teams, DevSecOps engineers, and security executives requiring unified visibility and orchestrated remediation workflows across enterprise-scale technology stacks.

Background

ArmorCode was founded in July 2020 by Nikhil Gupta, who previously founded and led Avid Secure (acquired by Sophos in 2019) and brings over 25 years of software engineering experience including work at Bell Labs. The company emerged from research with over 200 security leaders who identified the need for unified vulnerability management rather than additional point security tools. ArmorCode has raised $65 million in venture funding, including a $40 million Series B round led by HighlandX with participation from Nokia General Partners, Ballistic Ventures, Cervin Ventures, and Sierra Ventures. The platform serves Fortune 1000 companies across financial services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy sectors, supporting over 215,000 developers and security practitioners with active development demonstrated through continuous feature releases and platform enhancements.

Main features

Unified vulnerability management with adaptive risk scoring

ArmorCode consolidates security findings from across the full software development lifecycle, ingesting data from SAST, DAST, IAST, CSPM, container security, and software composition analysis tools into a single normalized data store. The platform applies AI-powered correlation algorithms to identify duplicate findings across tools and recognize the same underlying vulnerability manifesting through different detection mechanisms. Adaptive Risk Scoring calculates risk-adjusted scores by normalizing technical severity across scanning tools and applying business context through user-managed asset tags indicating criticality, public exposure, and sensitive data connections. This approach reduces security team effort by up to 90 percent by surfacing only vulnerabilities that pose significant business risk rather than requiring manual triage of thousands of generic severity-scored findings.

AI-powered capabilities with agentic virtual security champion

The platform integrates Anya, an agentic AI assistant purpose-built for application security, which functions as a virtual security champion grounded in organization-specific security data rather than providing generic guidance. Anya leverages retrieval-augmented generation techniques with access to over 40 billion processed findings across 320+ integrations, enabling natural language conversations about security posture with contextual, organization-specific answers. AI Code Insights analyzes code repositories to understand development patterns, frameworks, and architectural choices, generating remediation guidance immediately applicable to specific codebases. The platform combines AI-powered correlation for root cause identification with automated remediation guidance, delivering an 80 percent reduction in Mean Time to Remediation by providing targeted, code-specific instructions rather than theoretically correct but practically unusable suggestions.

DevSecOps collaboration and workflow automation

ArmorCode automates security workflows across the entire development lifecycle through comprehensive integration with development and operations systems including Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and CI/CD platforms. The dedicated ArmorCode Jira Application maintains real-time, dynamic connectivity between findings and tickets, ensuring developers see current information without switching platforms, with changes in ArmorCode automatically propagating to active Jira tickets. The platform enables CI/CD pipeline integration for pass/fail build criteria based on security risk thresholds, automatically creates remediation tickets when critical vulnerabilities are discovered, and provides Slack and Microsoft Teams notifications for critical issues. Structured request, proposal, and approval workflows allow developers to propose false positives directly within Jira, with proposals dynamically appearing in ArmorCode for security review, eliminating information lag typical of static ticket systems.