Rafter: The Application Security Solution Built for Dev Teams
Written by the Rafter Team
An application security solution needs to do three things well: find vulnerabilities in your code, flag dangerous dependencies, and catch secrets before they ship. Most tools handle one of those. Rafter handles all three in a single pipeline integration that returns results before your pull request is ready to merge.
Applications with no security scanning in CI/CD are 3x more likely to ship critical vulnerabilities to production, according to 2025 DevSecOps benchmarks.
Try Rafter free — your first scan runs in under two minutes.
What an Application Security Solution Covers
A complete application security solution spans four layers of your codebase:
- Static analysis (SAST) — scans source code for injection flaws, broken authentication, insecure cryptography, and other structural vulnerabilities without executing the application.
- Secrets detection — identifies API keys, database credentials, tokens, and private keys committed to your repository, including those buried in configuration files and environment templates.
- Dependency scanning (SCA) — maps your dependency tree against known vulnerability databases and flags packages with active CVEs.
- AI-code review — evaluates patterns specific to AI-generated code, which tends to produce more insecure defaults, weaker input validation, and outdated library usage than human-written code.
Missing any one of these layers leaves a gap that attackers routinely exploit.
How Rafter Works as Your Application Security Solution
Rafter connects to your repository and runs automated security scans on every pull request. There are no YAML configurations to write, no scan profiles to tune, and no separate dashboards to check. Results appear directly in your pull request as inline comments with contextual fix suggestions.
The scanning pipeline executes in parallel — SAST, secrets, and dependency checks run simultaneously so they finish in the time it takes to run the slowest individual scan, not the sum of all three. Most repositories see results in 30 to 90 seconds.
Rafter integrates into your existing CI/CD pipeline alongside your test suite. You set severity thresholds — block merges on critical and high findings, surface medium findings as warnings, suppress informational noise. Teams keep shipping while enforcing a security baseline that tightens over time.
Why Dev Teams Choose Rafter
Legacy application security solutions were built for security teams who audit code quarterly. Rafter is built for developers who push code daily.
- Zero configuration — connect your repo and scanning starts. No rulesets to maintain, no agents to install.
- Developer-native UX — findings appear where developers already work: in pull requests, not a separate portal.
- AI-aware scanning — purpose-built checks for AI-generated code patterns that general-purpose scanners miss.
- Fix suggestions — every finding includes a concrete remediation path, not just a CVE number and a severity label.
Security that developers actually use is more valuable than comprehensive tooling that gets ignored. Rafter's median time from finding to fix is under four hours — compared to the industry average of 68 days.
Start scanning with Rafter — one integration covers SAST, secrets, and dependency checks.