Overview
Arnica was built by engineers who had lived the pain of security findings that nobody could act on — incomplete context, wrong priorities, no clear ownership. Their platform rewires the finding-to-fix loop so developers resolve vulnerabilities without leaving their existing workflow.
What They’re Building
The platform covers four scanning domains in a single product:
- SAST — static analysis across first-party code
- SCA — open-source dependency vulnerabilities and license risk
- Secrets scanning — hardcoded credentials and tokens in code and history
- IaC scanning — misconfigurations in Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes manifests
Findings are routed directly to the developer who introduced the issue, with prioritization based on exploitability and exposure — not just severity score.
Why It Matters
AppSec tooling has historically created more noise than signal. Arnica’s bet is that security scales when developers can fix vulnerabilities without a security team acting as intermediary on every finding.