Our AI strategy for preemptive security
AI is helping developers ship more code, but this also increases the attack surface, which can be difficult for security teams to keep up with. Tooling can help, but traditional tools such as static application security testing (SAST) were built for a slower pace of development, as they check against a fixed list of known patterns and attacks. They also often generate more noise than actionable findings, creating even more challenges for security teams.
Savant Forge addresses this problem directly. It’s automated offensive testing built by hackers for developers, designed to surface novel vulnerabilities before they ship. However, finding and fixing vulnerabilities in your own code is only part of the compliance picture. Regulators increasingly want proof of what’s actually running in your application, including every third-party component, which is where Savant Runtime comes in.
Security testing tools tend to fall into one of four categories, depending on whether they analyze code text or run code to find vulnerabilities, and whether they look for known or unknown vulnerabilities. Here’s a breakdown:
Savant Forge fits into the latter category. It’s an automated offensive testing solution that fuzzes code to find and validate real, exploitable vulnerabilities, which mitigates the noise created by SAST tools. Every defect that Savant Forge surfaces includes a test case demonstrating exploitability, a prioritization score, and automated regression testing, so teams aren’t left guessing what to fix first.
Savant Forge combines proprietary fuzz testing technology with symbolic execution, which analyzes code mathematically to figure out which inputs would make a specific piece of code run, then uses that to reason through conditional logic. This combined approach detects more than twice as many bugs as fuzzing alone, doesn’t require recompiling to run, and works with dockerized images, Windows binaries, and more.
Savant Forge runs continuously in the background by integrating with your CI/CD pipeline, generating thousands of tests per minute, so fuzzing becomes part of the development lifecycle rather than a separate step. Once a defect is found, Savant Forge makes the remediation process painless. Defects are paired with reproducers, auto-generated tests, and code fix verifiers, not just a flagged line of code. This guarantees that the vulnerability is real and gives developers what they need to reproduce and start fixing it.
Here are some other ways in which Savant Forge improves developer productivity:
As a result, teams that use Savant Forge see reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR).
Savant Forge’s impact varies by industry, but teams reach a point where manual testing can’t scale with their code, and Savant Forge is what lets them keep moving.
An automotive company needed to fuzz code, but its engineers needed to focus on other mission-critical work. The company faced a familiar tradeoff: continuous fuzzing, fewer local resources and manual tests, and no interest in building an in-house tool to get there. The company turned to Savant Forge to manage continuous fuzzing and reduce the need for manual testing and in-house resources. As the senior technical director at the automotive company put it, “Bugcrowd finds things that engineers cannot see and helps us find vulnerabilities before the attackers do.”
A U.S. federal agency responsible for billions of dollars in safety-critical equipment faced a similar problem but with higher stakes. Weapon systems were becoming more dependent on software and networked, so the agency needed to autonomously test critical applications, identify vulnerabilities, and help with fixes in real time across multiple organizations. The agency used Savant Forge for autonomous vulnerability discovery and to support its cybersecurity programs.
A mobile gaming company with millions of players needed to secure its APIs and proprietary code, especially since it allows third parties to build on its platform. The company adopted Savant Forge alongside Savant Probe to cover both fronts from a single, unified approach. The result was fast, efficient testing of APIs and code with close to zero false positives, thereby freeing developers to spend more time building experiences for players and less time running manual tests.
Combining Forge with Savant Runtime can also help teams ensure compliance. Regulatory frameworks increasingly require organizations to maintain a detailed software bill of materials (SBOM) for every application they build or deploy. Passing an audit means being able to show exactly which components are in production.
Runtime closes this gap by ingesting reports from static SBOM and SCA tools and by building a live profile of the third-party components that your application actually uses at runtime. This helps prioritize actual risks and reduce false positives by 80%. While Forge answers if your code is exploitable, Runtime points to which dependencies actually matter in production.
As AI accelerates how much code your team ships, Savant Forge and Savant Runtime give you a way to catch exploitable bugs before release and keep your compliance in top shape. Less time spent chasing false positives means more time building.
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