Keep finding and fixing vulnerabilities

A working prototype can become an unsupported service

Vibe coding can produce a useful prototype quickly. The production risk grows when people keep using it without ongoing security maintenance. This is a serious gap: the software remains exposed while the person who created it considers the work finished.

The gap is organizational as well as technical. A scanner can exist without an owner. A finding can have an owner without a release route. A merged correction can leave the old production artifact running.

Evaluate the actual development platform and its configuration. Some tools provide security features. A product label does not establish whether your deployed application receives continuous scanning and verified fixes.

Scan when the evidence can change

Run relevant checks on proposed changes and built artifacts. Reassess supported versions on a schedule because advisory information changes without a commit. Trigger additional review when a relevant advisory, exposure change, or incident appears.

Keep the scope explicit. Identify repositories, branches, lockfiles, images, deployed digests, runtimes, and environments. Include applications that no longer receive feature work but still serve users.

A failed scan is missing evidence. Monitor scan freshness, feed failures, authentication failures, unsupported components, and coverage gaps. An empty findings list after a failed job is not a clean result.

Use different checks for different questions

Combine these checks with review and relevant security tests. Do not claim that any scan proves the absence of vulnerabilities.

Follow a fictional finding into production

Prioritize with severity, exploitation evidence, exposure, affected data, and available mitigations. CISA’s catalog helps identify known exploitation. It is one input, not a complete risk assessment. CISA catalog.

A temporary exception needs evidence, an owner, compensating controls, and an expiry or review trigger. If no patch exists, consider an authorized workaround, feature restriction, or removal of the affected component.

Close the maintenance gap

Measure time to triage and verified remediation by priority. Track overdue exceptions, stale scans, affected production versions, and recurring findings. A falling finding count can also reflect reduced coverage; inspect the denominator.

Taiga Maintaining scans linked repositories after changes and periodically. It records findings and connects remediation to initiatives and reviewed changes. Check sweep status and the current documented behavior. Maintaining.

Your pipeline still needs appropriate release gates. The service owner still needs to confirm deployment and operational correctness. This continuous chain is part of operating an AI software factory, including products whose first version started as a prototype.