Brinqa and Cycode Bridge the Gap Between Exposure Management and Application Security Teams

Application security teams and vulnerability management teams often work toward the same goal of reducing risk, but from very different perspectives. Application security platforms focus on securing code as it’s being built, while vulnerability and exposure management teams are responsible for understanding how risk manifests across the broader environment once applications are deployed.

This gap is exactly why Cycode and Brinqa are better together.

Cycode is a leading application security platform deeply integrated into the development and deployment lifecycle. Brinqa is an exposure management platform built to aggregate, correlate, and contextualize risk across infrastructure, cloud, applications, and business services. Together, they connect application security insights with enterprise-wide exposure intelligence, enabling organizations to understand not just what vulnerabilities exist – but why they matter and how they impact the business.

The Challenge: Application Security in Isolation

Application security tools are highly effective at identifying issues in code – secrets embedded in repositories, vulnerable open-source libraries, OWASP Top 10 violations, and other application-level flaws. Cycode, in particular, excels at discovering authentication secrets embedded in code and identifying risks across CI/CD pipelines, repositories, and software supply chains.

But application security data often exists in a silo.

AppSec tools primarily see the application and the code itself. They do not have visibility into how that application interacts with underlying infrastructure, cloud environments, business services, or compliance requirements once deployed. As a result, vulnerabilities are assessed without full awareness of their real-world impact or how they correlate with other exposures across the environment.

At the same time, vulnerability management teams typically lack visibility into application-layer risks. They often assume applications have been tested and approved, without insight into reused libraries, persistent code flaws, or secrets that may expose infrastructure and data downstream.

Bridging Application Security and Exposure Management

The partnership between Cycode and Brinqa is designed to bridge this disconnect.

Cycode provides deep, developer-centric application security data – covering secrets discovery, software composition analysis, CI/CD risks, and application scanning. Brinqa ingests this data through a standard API integration and maps it into its unified data model, where it can be correlated with infrastructure, cloud, identity, and business context.

This allows organizations to bring application security findings into Brinqa’s exposure management platform and analyze them alongside other risk signals already present in the environment.

How the Integration Works

At a technical level, Cycode data is ingested into Brinqa through an API-based connector. Brinqa brings in repositories, packages, findings, violations, and associated metadata from Cycode and stores them as source data records.

These records are then mapped into Brinqa’s unified data model, where they can:

• Trigger risk factors
• Be correlated with other vulnerabilities and exposures
• Be enriched with infrastructure, cloud, and business service context
• Contribute to more accurate risk scoring and prioritization

Cycode’s application-level risk factors – such as OWASP Top 10 issues, public exposure indicators, and software composition risks – can be mapped directly to Brinqa’s risk factors, enabling consistent prioritization across domains.

From Code-Level Findings to Business Impact

One of the key benefits of using Cycode and Brinqa together is the ability to move beyond isolated severity ratings.

Application security tools often categorize business impact as high, medium, or low. Brinqa enhances this by correlating application findings with business service catalogs, ownership data, and environmental context. This makes it possible to understand whether an application vulnerability affects revenue-generating services, regulated data, or critical infrastructure.

For example, an OWASP vulnerability identified during development may appear low risk in isolation. When correlated with cloud misconfigurations, exposed infrastructure, or sensitive data paths already present in the environment, that same issue may represent a significantly higher level of risk.

This correlation helps teams refine prioritization and focus remediation efforts where they matter most.

Better Together: A Unified View of Risk

Cycode and Brinqa serve different, but complementary roles.

Cycode is embedded in the application development lifecycle, integrating with build, deployment, and CI/CD processes to identify risks as code is written and promoted. Brinqa extends that visibility by connecting application security data with the broader enterprise environment, creating a holistic view of exposure that spans applications, infrastructure, cloud, and business context.

Together, they help organizations:

• Connect application security teams with vulnerability and exposure management teams
• Reduce silos between code-level findings and enterprise risk
• Prioritize remediation using correlated, contextualized risk data
• Understand how application flaws contribute to real-world exposure

This partnership is not about replacing application security platforms or redefining vulnerability management. It is about connecting teams that have historically worked in isolation and giving them a shared, contextualized understanding of risk.

The Bottom Line

Application security is a critical part of reducing enterprise risk – but it cannot operate in isolation.

By combining Cycode’s application security expertise with Brinqa’s exposure management platform, organizations gain the ability to see how application risks connect to infrastructure, cloud environments, and business impact. The result is clearer prioritization, better collaboration between teams, and a more complete understanding of exposure across the enterprise.

Want to learn more about how Brinqa connects application security findings to real-world exposure? Connect with a Brinqa expert to see how unified exposure management helps you prioritize risk with context, correlation, and clarity.

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