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DefectDojo collects your findings.
Conviso runs your AppSec program.
DefectDojo with Semgrep, Trivy and ZAP is a solid start. The tools are the easy part: the cost is in maintaining, integrating, tuning and prioritizing, and in having people who can run pentests and threat modeling. Conviso Platform delivers that part without you running the infrastructure.
The 30-second version
Each tool does the job it was built for
DefectDojo does well
Aggregating results
- Importing findings from dozens of scanners
- Deduplicating with configurable rules
- Full control of a self-hosted instance
Conviso Platform does
The program, without the operating cost
- Its own SAST and DAST, plus findings from other tools in one queue
- Priority by asset criticality, exploitable path and context
- Pentests by an OffSec team, threat modeling and your PCI program in one place
Open source is still a good place to start.Conviso Platform is for when your program needs to scale without consuming your team.
Side by side
Capability by capability
We compare against open source, self-hosted DefectDojo with open source scanners. The rows where it is the better choice stay in the table.
Capability
Open source DefectDojo
Conviso Platform
License cost
Open source DefectDojo
Covered:Zero
Conviso Platform
Covered:Subscription
Findings sources
Open source DefectDojo
Covered:Imports results from dozens of tools
Conviso Platform
Covered:Its own SAST and DAST, plus findings from other tools via integration or CLIAI Secure CodeWeb & API Scan
Deduplication
Open source DefectDojo
Covered:Configurable algorithm
Conviso Platform
Covered:Automatic, before a ticket is createdVuln Intelligence
Operations, maintenance and tuning
Open source DefectDojo
Not covered:Instance, upgrades, parsers and tuning are on your team
Conviso Platform
Covered:Platform operated by Conviso, with tuning on us
Risk-based prioritization
Open source DefectDojo
Partly covered:Severity and manually filled fields
Conviso Platform
Covered:Asset criticality, exploitable path, exposure and application contextVuln Intelligence
Task tracker integration
Open source DefectDojo
Partly covered:Native Jira
Conviso Platform
Covered:Two-way sync with Jira, Azure Boards, Linear, ServiceNow and ZendeskVuln Intelligence
SBOM and threat modeling
Open source DefectDojo
Not covered:Imports results, doesn't generate them
Conviso Platform
Covered:SBOM from your repositories and manual or AI threat modelingThreat & Program Management
Pentest and OffSec
Open source DefectDojo
Partly covered:Logs engagements and manual findings, with no OffSec team
Conviso Platform
Covered:An OffSec team, from scope to fix, with evidence per assetOffensive & Audit Manager
Maturity and PCI DSS program
Open source DefectDojo
Not covered:Findings metrics
Conviso Platform
Covered:OWASP SAMM, MTTR on the dashboard and your PCI DSS programThreat & Program Management
Source: public open source DefectDojo documentation, reviewed October 2026. DefectDojo is an OWASP project.
Where it breaks down
“Free” gets paid in your team's hours
The license costs nothing. The bill arrives as operations, integration work and the risk that slips by while the team handles infrastructure instead of vulnerabilities.
Your team becomes the maintainer
Deploys, upgrades, backups and uptime are on you. In an open source project a fix can take weeks, and the SLA is yours.
Conviso runs the operations
Conviso operates the Platform. Your team spends its time reducing risk.
Integration and tuning never end
Every scanner has its own format and its own noise. Keeping parsers, rules and pipelines in shape takes recurring engineering.
Built-in scanners, maintained integrations
The Platform's own SAST and DAST, plus other tools via integration or CLI. Findings arrive normalized and deduplicated, with tuning on Conviso.
Priority stuck on a score
Static severity doesn't tell you which flaw exposes the business.
Priority with context
Risk accounts for asset criticality, the exploitable path into your code and application context, and the SLA follows your program rules.
The program depends on one person
How everything fits together lives in a few heads. When they leave, the program leaves too.
A program that doesn't rely on memory
Rules, history, MTTR and evidence stay in the Platform, ready for the next cycle and the next audit.
How they work together
Your scanners keep running.
Operations stop being your team's problem.
Conviso Platform adds its own scanners to the ones you already use, decides what becomes a ticket, with which priority and SLA, and tracks it to the fix.
Tickets land in Jira, Azure Boards, Linear, ServiceNow or Zendesk.
Scanners and pentests
Conviso scanners, Semgrep, Trivy, ZAP and pentests find issues
Conviso Platform
Deduplicates, prioritizes by risk and sets the SLA
Task tracker
The ticket reaches developers with fix context
Development team
Fixes it in their usual flow
Conviso Platform
Records the history and updates posture
The cost that never shows up on an invoice
It looks free.
Someone is footing the bill.
Nobody adds up the cost until they count how many senior engineering hours go into maintaining the stack.
Developers and tech leads
Turned into security sysadmins
Instead of fixing vulnerabilities, the team maintains instances, parsers and pipelines. Security competes with delivery and loses.
AppSec team
Running tools, not the program
The day goes to gluing integrations and tuning noise. Little is left for prioritizing risk and supporting developers.
CISOs and security leaders
Fragile continuity
A program that depends on a few people is fragile, and proving PCI DSS compliance becomes manual work every cycle.
Frequently asked questions
What every team asks before switching
Is DefectDojo bad?
No. It's a mature, widely used OWASP project. The issue is the cost of running a program on top of it: maintenance, integration, tuning and the pentest and threat modeling expertise.
We save money with open source. Why change?
Measure how many engineering hours the stack consumes each month. That time rarely turns into lower risk. Conviso Platform gives it back to your team and adds an OffSec team.
Can we migrate gradually?
Yes. The scanners you already use keep running and start feeding Conviso Platform via integration or CLI. You switch at your own pace.
How does this help with audits?
Every finding is recorded from discovery to fix, and your PCI program runs on the same trail, with gap assessment and evidence. Maturity is measured with OWASP SAMM.
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