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Prime introduces a new operating model for Product Security
Prime Security today introduced a new operating model for Product Security, expanding its platform to help security teams participate in every product decision - from architecture and design through implementation and continuous validation.
The announcement comes as the company returns to Black Hat USA, one year after winning the conference's prestigious Startup Spotlight competition, where it will showcase the expanded platform this week in Las Vegas.
Prime's expanded platform addresses a fundamental change in how software is built. As AI accelerates engineering and compresses the distance between architecture, implementation, and deployment, security can no longer rely on reviewing finished code alone. It must participate continuously as products are designed, built, and shipped.
From day one, Prime has taken a different approach to Product Security. Rather than analyzing isolated pieces of software, the platform was built to understand products as complete systems - starting with architecture and design decisions, where critical security context is created long before code is written.
That architectural foundation now extends across the entire product lifecycle, enabling security teams to participate before the code, in the code, and after the code through a shared understanding of the product.
The expanded platform includes autonomous design reviews, AI security code reviews, AI coding guardrails, risk-focused software supply chain security, and continuous white-box pentesting - all powered by the same understanding of the product and its architecture.
Prime CEO Michael Nov said:
"Software development has fundamentally changed. Architecture, implementation, and deployment no longer happen as separate phases - they increasingly happen together, often inside the same AI-assisted workflow. Security can't keep up by reviewing software after it's built because the important decisions have already been made. Product Security has to participate as those decisions are being made. That's what Prime was built for."
Backed by Foundation Capital, Flybridge and Scale Venture Partners, Prime is trusted by organizations including PayPal, Bumble, Qualtrics, MX, and ThoughtSpot among its customers.
Customers report completing security design reviews in as little as 15 minutes, increasing security team capacity by 4-5x, and reducing false positives by up to 90% compared to traditional application security approaches.
Learn more at https://www.primesec.ai or visit https://www.primesec.ai/blackhat-2026 for Black Hat activities and event information.
Before the Code. In the Code. After the Code. Security in the age of AI Factories
Software development didn't just get faster. It broke shape. The old shape of plan, design, build, test, deploy is not how software gets built anymore. Now it is specs in one place, prompts in another, code written by humans and agents, architecture decisions made in a chat window, and tests generated after the fact.
The boundary around who builds is dissolving too. Engineers orchestrate agents. Product managers turn ideas into real products with the help of vibe coding. Business Analysts build workflows that touch real data and real systems. Some of it enters the formal SDLC. Some never do. All of it changes the attack surface.
The end state is becoming obvious: software factories run mostly by agents, the way lights-out factories run manufacturing lines with no humans on the floor. Some companies are already there. Most are in the awkward middle - partial adoption, uneven quality, and pressure to move faster anyway.
Strip away the noise and the goal is simple: whatever reaches production has to be secure and follow the rules you set for it. That job did not change. Everything around it did.
Shift left and DevSecOps were the right answers for their moment - but both were designed around developers making decisions. Now agents make architectural choices, wire data flows, and push work forward faster than any human checkpoint can follow. Every prompt, every PR, every agent-generated feature is an architectural decision your security team never reviewed.
The next model is not a faster human. It is an autonomous security agent operating in the same environment as the development agents - and it cannot work component by component. Attackers already don't: AI-powered attack tooling chains the design flaws, code vulnerabilities, and cloud misconfigs your agents just introduced into single exploitable paths. Scanners see files. Pipelines see changes. Attackers see weaknesses - and need only one that connects. Security has to see the product - that is where weaknesses connect: what is being planned, what is in work, and what has shipped.
That is what Product Security means now. Not security embedded in a pipeline - security as an autonomous participant in it, holding the product view through every stage: before the code, in it, and after it.
Before the code - where intent gets set and attack vectors get introduced
For business critical features and complex systems, design still deserves real scrutiny before a single line gets written. An agent factory executing a flawed design quickly is worse than a slow team building the wrong thing manually. The blast radius is bigger. A missing auth requirement, a broken tenant isolation model, an exposed data flow - these are not code problems. They are design decisions, and agents execute them at speed.
As spec-driven development matures, getting the spec right becomes the highest-leverage security investment you can make. The old way of getting it right was threat modeling - a workshop, a whiteboard, an architect asking the right questions. It worked, for the handful of features that got one. That trade dies when a product manager's spec becomes running code in a day. Autonomous review changes the economics: it reads every spec, ticket, and PRD as it is written - wherever intent lives - and asks what the architect would have asked.
What the design stage gives you is the missing context: what the feature is meant to do, who should reach it, what data it touches, and what it must never allow. Without that, the check after the code can only answer one question: is this vulnerable? With it, it can answer the ones that actually drive a decision: does this vulnerability matter, what does it cost the business, and is this what was supposed to get built?
Design is still where security starts. It is no longer where it stops. The review does not produce just a report. It produces the context the next stage runs on.
In the code - security cannot just guide agents. It has to act.
Prompts change. Models change. Agents change. The system is what accumulates - every architecture decision, every trust boundary, every data flow, every intent, layered over years. Without that context, a security agent can reason about code. With it, it can reason about the system.
Security has two jobs here: steer the work while it is written, and gate it before it merges.
Steering happens in the moment. A development agent starts wiring a new data flow - the security agent loads the live architecture, reads the trust boundaries, and if something is wrong, intervenes. Not a flag. Not a ticket. An agent with the authority to block a bad decision before it is ever committed.
The gate is the pull request - the last moment a change is still just a proposed change. Everything gets checked, every time, no matter who or what wrote the code. The gate answers one question: does this change violate a rule you already set? Hardcoded secrets, broken cryptography, and prohibited patterns do not require system-wide reasoning. They are known violations and should be stopped immediately. That is what makes the gate fast, deterministic, and difficult to argue with. Exploitability is a different question.
The PR merges. The change becomes part of the system. And exploitability lives in the system, not the diff.
After the code - where exploitable paths get validated
The change has landed. It is part of a system now. Whether it is exploitable is no longer a fact about the change - it is a fact about the system around it. The gate answered one question: did you break a rule. This stage answers the other: is there a path to exploit. The analysis starts the moment the change lands, before anything ships, and it never stops after.
First, at the repo level. A flagged line of code matters only if it plays a part in an attack path - as the way in, or as a step along the way - past the controls that exist. A vulnerable dependency only matters if the vulnerable function is reachable and exploitable with input an attacker controls. Part of no path is noise. That is how the 200-issue queue dies - validation eliminates the 195 that never mattered and confirms the five that did.
Then at the system level, continuously. Clean when it landed does not mean clean today: a new CVE drops against a dependency you merged six months ago, a cloud config drifts, another team's change opens a path through your service. The attacker does not care which PR introduced which piece - only whether a path exists through the system as it runs right now.
You hold the source, the architecture, the cloud controls, and the intent behind every feature - everything an attacker wishes they had, and you have it first. Run the real thing from the inside: continuous, white-box attack path analysis across the live system. An internal service skips authentication because nothing external can reach it. An agent builds on its API, a routing change exposes it - zero findings, one path to customer data. Only the intent recorded on day one makes the last change light up.
Not is this vulnerable - a scanner guesses at that. Is there an exploitable path, through this architecture, past these controls, into this data. You do not infer it. You validate it. The output is not a list of findings. It is a path an attacker can take, end to end.
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The challenge has shifted. It is no longer "How do we find bugs earlier?" It is "How do we release secure software when the decisions that matter are made autonomously, continuously, and faster than any human review can follow?" That question does not have a checkpoint answer. Security cannot review decisions after they are made. It has to participate in them as they happen.
And participation is not three products at three checkpoints. It is one view of the product - planned, in work, shipped. The intent understood before the code is what makes steering possible during it, and what makes validation credible after it. Break that chain into point tools and each sees a slice; the exploitable path that matters often spans all three. That is not another scanner or another policy engine. It is a new operating model for Product Security.
We built Prime to run that model.
Before the code, it reviews design intent autonomously and records what every feature is supposed to do. In the code, it steers agents and developers with the live architecture loaded, and gates every PR on the rules you set. After the code, it validates exploitable paths continuously across the live system.
This only works as one platform. Prime can validate an exploitable path because it understood what the feature was supposed to do before the code existed, followed how it was implemented, and sees how the system and its controls connect today. That context cannot be reconstructed reliably after the fact. It has to persist from intent through implementation.
The factory is already running. Security can review its decisions after they happen, or participate in them as they are made. We built Prime for the second answer. Before the code. In the code. After the code.
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The Most Ignored Artifact in Security is Now the Most Important One
Security policies were the documents nobody read. Written, published, forgotten. Developers worked around them. Security teams rewrote them every two years and called it progress. Everyone understood the game and nobody said anything because it was mostly harmless. A bad policy sat in a wiki somewhere and collected dust.
That is no longer the situation.
In an agentic world the agent does not work around the policy. It follows it. Every time. No judgment, no improvisation, no common sense filling the gaps. That changes what a bad policy costs, in a way most security teams have not fully sat with yet.
A bad policy written for humans is a document nobody reads. Mostly harmless because humans ignored it anyway. A bad policy followed by agents is consistent wrong behavior, at scale, across everything your agents touch. It does not sit in a document anymore. It ships.
Here is what that looks like in practice. A policy that says "use appropriate encryption" is standard language in half the security documents written in the last decade. It tells a human to think and make a reasonable call. It tells an agent to decide. It will decide. It might pick MD5. It will be consistent about it.
The language that felt precise enough for a human audience, "appropriate," "reasonable," "where possible," is not precise at all. It is an instruction to exercise judgment. Rewriting policies for agents forces decisions that security teams have been deferring for years. What does appropriate encryption actually mean in this system? What counts as sensitive data in this context? What should the agent never do, regardless of what it is asked? These questions used to live in someone's head. Now they have to be written down in a form a machine can execute without a human in the loop to catch the edge cases.
The difference in practice looks something like this. The old version says "use appropriate encryption for sensitive data." The new version says "all data classified as sensitive must be encrypted using AES-256-GCM at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit. The agent must not proceed if either condition cannot be verified." One requires a judgment call. The other does not. If you cannot write a test that verifies the agent followed the policy, the policy is not done.
There is one more thing the static policy model never had to confront. The threat landscape does not wait. When a new attack technique gets published, the window between disclosure and active exploitation is sometimes days. A policy that was correct last month can be the thing that gets you next month. Human security teams absorbed that kind of change through awareness, the engineer who read the advisory and updated the standard before it mattered. Agents do not read advisories. They follow what they were given. A policy that cannot be updated dynamically and propagated to every agent consuming it in real time is already becoming a liability the moment it is written. Specificity and machine readability make agent-ready policy powerful. They also make it brittle if the update mechanism is not part of the design from the start.
That is a pipeline problem as much as a content problem. The policy layer has to be live. Version controlled, continuously updated against the current threat landscape, and connected to the agents consuming it in a way that does not require a manual deployment every time something changes. That is new infrastructure most security teams do not have yet and are not building.
That is usually how it goes right before something forces it.
Do it before the agent does something your policy technically allowed.
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Security by Design: Regulatory Requirements in October 2024
Building Secure Foundations: The Shift Towards Security by Design
“Security by Design” is no longer a best practice - it is a regulatory auditable imperative. Various global standards and frameworks now mandate that organizations adopt SbD principles to ensure compliance with data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity regulations.
Traditionally, security is reactive—addressed only after systems were developed or, worse, once a breach had already occurred. The limitations of this reactive approach have driven the emergence of the “Security by Design” philosophy, which prioritizes the integration of security measures right from the earliest stages of design and development. This principle has become a foundational aspect of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), embedding security directly into the architecture of systems and products from the ground up.
Rather than relying solely on reactive methods like scanning run-time systems or identifying vulnerabilities after deployment, “Security by Design” focuses on preventing these risks much earlier in the process. It ensures that security considerations are a core element of the product development journey, reducing the likelihood of security flaws and minimizing the need for costly, time-consuming fixes later.
Regulators and international standards bodies have recognized the value of this approach. By incorporating “Security by Design” into the various frameworks, they are urging organizations to proactively identify potential security gaps and vulnerabilities, embedding robust security safeguards from the inception of any product or system. This shift towards a preemptive security strategy represents a significant evolution in how security is conceptualized and implemented across industries.
Relevance by Regulatory Framework
The table below outlines the “Security by Design” requirements within the current regulatory landscape and explains how organizations can achieve both procedural and technological compliance requirements with Prime Security.
NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a U.S. government agency that develops and promotes measurement standards, technology, and science to enhance economic security and quality of life.
| Standard Name | Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
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| NIST CSF 2.0 | Platform Security (PR.PS) | PR.PS-06 Secure software development practices are integrated, and their performance is monitored throughout the software development life cycle | Prime incorporates secure development practices during the design phase and automatically identifies security risks |
| CA-02(02) Control Assessments | Specialized Assessments | Specialized assessments can also be conducted early in the system development life cycle (e.g., during initial design, development, and unit testing). | Prime facilitates the early identification of security risks by conducting security assessments during the initial design stage of system development lifecycle | |
| SA-03 System Development Life Cycle | a. Acquire, develop, and manage the system using an organization-defined system development life cycle that incorporates information security and privacy considerations. | Prime incorporates security and privacy requirements into the organization's SDLC by identifying risks early in the design phase | |
| SA-03 System Development Life Cycle | d. Integrate the organizational information security and privacy risk management process into system development life cycle activities. | Prime embeds the organization's security and privacy engineering principles or industry best practices into the design phase of SDLC | |
| SA-08 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles | Apply the organization-defined systems security and privacy engineering principles in the specification, design, development, implementation, and modification of the system and system components. | ||
| NIST 800-53r5 | SA-08 Security and Privacy Engineering Principles | Ensure that the systems security and privacy engineering principles are applied throughout the system development life cycle. | Prime embeds security and privacy requirements at the design stage, ensuring they are upheld throughout the SDLC |
| NIST 800-53r5 | PM-07 Enterprise Architecture | Integrate security and privacy requirements and controls into the enterprise architecture to ensure they are addressed throughout the system development life cycle and are explicitly related to the organization's mission and business processes. | Prime embeds security and privacy requirements at the design stage, ensuring they are upheld throughout the SDLC |
| NIST 800-53r5 | RA-08 Privacy Impact Assessments | Conduct privacy impact assessments for systems, programs, or other activities before developing or procuring information technology that processes personally identifiable information. | Prime identifies engineering tasks that could potential cause privacy violations prior to them being started |
ISO
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a global body that develops and publishes international standards for products, services, and systems across various industries.
| Standard Name | Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
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| ISO/IEC 27001:2022(E) | 8.26 Application security requirements | Control: Information security requirements shall be identified, specified and approved when developing or acquiring applications. | Prime integrates into the organizational system development life cycle, detects and mitigates security gaps in the requirements given to systems and projects |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022(E) | 5.8 Information security in project management | Control: Information security shall be integrated into project management. | Prime integrates information security into project management by embedding security requirements and risk assessments as early as possible in the development lifecycle |
| ISO/IEC 27002:2022(E) | 5.8 Information security in project management |
Control: Information security should be integrated into project management. Purpose: To ensure information security risks related to projects and deliverables are effectively addressed in project management throughout the project life cycle. Guidance: Information security should be integrated into project management to ensure information security risks are addressed as part of the project management. This can be applied to any type of project regardless of its complexity, size, duration, discipline or application area (e.g. a project for a core business process, ICT, facility management or other supporting processes). The project management in use should require that:
Early consideration of information security requirements for the product or service (e.g. at the planning and design stages), can lead to more effective and cost-efficient solutions for quality and information security. |
Prime integrates information security into project management by ensuring that security risks are assessed and treated early and periodically throughout the project lifecycle. It incorporates security requirements, such as application security and intellectual property compliance, from the planning and design stages, leading to more effective and cost-efficient solutions |
| ISO/IEC 27002:2022(E) | 8.25 Secure development life cycle |
Control: Rules for the secure development of software and systems should be established and applied. Purpose: To ensure information security is designed and implemented within the secure development life cycle of software and systems. Guidance:
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Prime helps establish and apply rules for the secure development of software and systems by embedding information security requirements into the specification and design phases of the development lifecycle. This ensures that security is integrated from the outset, providing a foundation for building robust and secure applications |
| ISO/IEC 27002:2022(E) | 8.27 Secure system architecture and engineering principles |
Control: Principles for engineering secure systems should be established, documented, maintained and applied to any information system development activities. Purpose: To ensure information systems are securely designed, implemented and operated within the development life cycle. Guidance: Security engineering principles should be established, documented and applied to information system engineering activities. Security should be designed into all architecture layers (business, data, applications and technology). New technology should be analyzed for security risks and the design should be reviewed against known attack patterns. Secure engineering principles provide guidance on user authentication techniques, secure session control and data validation and sanitisation. Secure system engineering should involve:
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Prime helps organizations establish, document, and maintain secure system engineering principles throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring security is integrated into all architecture layers—business, data, applications, and technology. It supports security-by-design practices, such as "defense in depth," "least privilege," and "default deny," while guiding security-oriented design reviews to identify vulnerabilities and ensure adequate controls are in place |
PCI-DSS v4.0
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security requirements designed to ensure that all companies that process, store, or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| Requirement 6: Develop and Maintain Secure Systems and Software | 6.2.1: Incorporating consideration of information security issues during each stage of the software development lifecycle. | Prime incorporates information security considerations during the design stage of the software development lifecycle, ensuring that potential risks are identified and addressed early. This proactive approach reduces the likelihood of discovering security vulnerabilities at later stages, minimizing costly rework and enhancing overall system security |
HITRUST
The HiTRUST (Health Information Trust Alliance) CSF (Common Security Framework) is a comprehensive security framework designed specifically for the healthcare industry. It combines and harmonizes various standards and regulations, including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO, to provide organizations with a unified approach to managing information security and privacy risks in healthcare.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| Control Category: 10.0 - Information Systems Acquisition, Development, and Maintenance |
Control Objective: To ensure that security is an integral part of information systems. Control Specification: Statements of business requirements for new information systems (developed or purchased), or enhancements to existing information systems shall specify the requirements for security controls. Specifications for the security control requirements include security controls to be incorporated in the information system, and supplemented by manual controls as needed. Further, security control requirements are considered when evaluating software packages, either developed or purchased. |
Prime ensures that security is an integral part of information systems by embedding security control requirements into the specifications for new or enhanced systems. This approach ensures that security requirements are considered from the outset |
CSA controls matrix v4.0.12
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) is a cybersecurity control framework specifically designed for cloud computing environments. It provides a comprehensive set of cloud-specific security controls to help organizations assess and improve their cloud security posture, align with various regulations, and enhance overall risk management in cloud deployments.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| Application & Interface Security Secure Application Design and Development (AIS-04) | Define and implement a SDLC process for application design, development, deployment, and operation in accordance with security requirements defined by the organization. | Prime integrates the organization's security requirements into the SDLC by identifying risks and defining security controls during the application design phase |
| Data Security and Privacy Lifecycle Management Data Protection by Design and Default (DSP-07) |
Develop systems, products, and business practices based upon a principle of security by design and industry best practices. | Prime enables the development of systems, products, and business practices based on the principle of security by design and aligned with industry best practices. It incorporates security requirements from the outset, ensuring that security is embedded throughout the development process |
| Data Security and Privacy Lifecycle Management Data Privacy by Design and Default (DSP-08) |
Develop systems, products, and business practices based upon a principle of privacy by design and industry best practices. Ensure that systems' privacy settings are configured by default, according to all applicable laws and regulations. | Prime automatically identifies potential privacy violations during the design stage, ensuring that privacy requirements are integrated from the outset. It helps configure systems' privacy settings by default to comply with applicable laws and regulations, following the principle of privacy by design and industry best practices |
COBIT 5
Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) is a framework created by ISACA for information technology (IT) management and IT governance. It provides a set of best practices for aligning IT with business objectives, optimizing IT resources, and managing IT-related risks and controls across an organization.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| BAI01 - Manage Programmes and Projects BAI01.09 - Manage programme and project quality |
1. Identify assurance tasks and practices required to support the accreditation of new or modified systems during programme and project planning, and include them in the integrated plans. Ensure that the tasks provide assurance that internal controls and security solutions meet the defined requirements. | Prime identifies compliance and regulatory violations at the design stage, ensuring that any issues are addressed early to support the accreditation of new or modified systems. By integrating these assurance tasks into project planning, it provides confidence that internal controls and security solutions meet defined requirements from the outset. |
| BAI02 - Manage Requirements BAI02.04 - Obtain approval of requirements and solutions |
1. Ensure that the business sponsor or product owner makes the final decision with respect to the choice of solution, acquisition approach and high-level design, according to the business case. Coordinate feedback from affected stakeholders and obtain sign-off from appropriate business and technical authorities (e.g., business process owner, enterprise architect, operations manager, security) for the proposed approach. | Prime enables the business sponsor or product owner to make informed decisions on the solution, acquisition approach, and high-level design by identifying security risks early in the design stage. It provides insights into potential vulnerabilities and gathers feedback from stakeholders, ensuring that decisions are aligned with both business objectives and security requirements. |
| BAI03 - Manage Solutions Identification and Build BAI03.01 - Design high-level solutions |
3. Create a design that is compliant with the organization's design standards, at a level of detail that is appropriate for the solution and development method and consistent with business, enterprise and IT strategies, the enterprise architecture, security plan, and applicable laws, regulations and contracts. | Prime ensures that designs comply with organizational standards by identifying security requirements and risks early in the development process. It aligns the design with business, enterprise, and IT strategies, the enterprise architecture, security plans, and relevant laws, regulations, and contracts. |
| BAI03 - Manage Solutions Identification and Build BAI03.02 - Design detailed solution components |
9. Proactively evaluate for design weaknesses (e.g., inconsistencies, lack of clarity, potential flaws) throughout the life cycle, identifying improvements when required. | Prime focuses on identifying security flaws during the design phase by evaluating potential weaknesses, such as inconsistencies, ambiguities, and vulnerabilities. It provides early insights and recommendations for improvement, ensuring that security issues are addressed before they progress further in the development lifecycle. |
Institute of Internal Auditors
The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) is a global professional association that serves as the primary advocate, educator, and standard-setter for the internal audit profession. It provides guidance, certifications, and resources to enhance the effectiveness of internal auditors in various industries, promoting ethical practices and professional excellence in risk management, control, and governance processes.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| F. How the organization addresses cybersecurity within their system development life cycle, including the following control aspects | 1. Planning: Cybersecurity has been identified as a key component when assessing risks and analyzing potential vulnerabilities. The scope and objectives of the software implementation should be included as the organization evaluates cybersecurity controls during the planning phase. |
Prime integrates cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance checks throughout the planning, requirements-gathering, and design phases of the SDLC. It identifies vulnerabilities early, ensures alignment with legal and regulatory standards, and recommends the necessary security controls that should be applied. Prime enables cyber security auditors to perform an effective audit process to ensure that security controls are being implemented at the design stage including formal audit evidence gathering. |
OWASP ASVS v4.0.3
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving the security of software. It provides freely available articles, methodologies, documentation, tools, and technologies in the field of web application security.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| V1.1 Secure Software Development Lifecycle | 1.1.1 Verify the use of a secure software development lifecycle that addresses security in all stages of development | Prime integrates into the design phase of SDLC and provides the proper security practices before actual development starts |
CIS
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a nonprofit organization that develops and promotes best practice standards for cyber defense. CIS provides benchmarks, controls, and tools to help organizations improve their cybersecurity posture, with a focus on creating and maintaining consensus-based, vendor-agnostic security configuration guidelines for various IT systems and software.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| Control 16 - Application Software Security | 16.1 Establish and maintain a secure application development process. In the process, address such items as: secure application design standards, secure coding practices, developer training, vulnerability management, security of third-party code, and application security testing procedures. Review and update documentation annually, or when significant enterprise changes occur that could impact this Safeguard. | Prime enables organizations to establish and maintain a secure application development process by identifying risks early and recommending security requirements aligned with best practices |
GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a comprehensive data privacy law enacted by the European Union in 2018. It sets strict rules for how organizations must handle personal data of EU residents, including requirements for consent, data protection measures, and individuals' rights over their data.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| Article 25 - Data Protection by Design and by Default |
1. Taking into account the state of the art, the cost of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risks of varying likelihood and severity for rights and freedoms of natural persons posed by the processing, the controller shall, both at the time of the determination of the means for processing and at the time of the processing itself, implement appropriate technical and organizational measures, such as pseudonymisation, which are designed to implement data-protection principles, such as data minimisation, in an effective manner and to integrate the necessary safeguards into the processing in order to meet the requirements of this Regulation and protect the rights of data subjects. 2. The controller shall implement appropriate technical and organizational measures for ensuring that, by default, only personal data which are necessary for each specific purpose of the processing are processed. |
Prime helps organizations comply with data protection regulations by identifying cybersecurity risks during the design stage of the SDLC |
European Commission, Cyber Resilience Act
The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union (EU). It proposes and enforces legislation, implements policies, and manages the day-to-day operations of the EU.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
|---|---|---|
| Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 | (1) create conditions for the development of secure products with digital elements by ensuring that hardware and software products are placed on the market with fewer vulnerabilities and that manufactures take security seriously throughout a product's life cycle. | Prime enables the development of secure products with digital elements by identifying vulnerabilities early in the design phase and ensuring they are minimized before market release. |
Monetary Authority of Singapore
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore's central bank and integrated financial regulator. It oversees all financial institutions in Singapore, manages the country's exchange rate, operates its monetary policy, and works to ensure financial stability.
| Control/Requirement ID | Control/Requirement Description | Compliance with Prime |
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| 5.4 System Development Life Cycle and Security-By-Design | 5.4.2 The security-by-design approach refers to building security in every phase of the SDLC in order to minimize system vulnerabilities and reduce the attack surface. The FI should incorporate security specifications in the system design, perform continuous security evaluation, and adhere to security practices throughout the SDLC. | Prime implements a security-by-design approach by embedding specific security requirements during the design phase of the SDLC to minimize vulnerabilities and reduce the attack surface. It continuously evaluates the system for security risks and ensures adherence to best practices throughout development. |
| 5.6 System Design and Implementation | 5.6.1 As part of the design phase, the FI should review the proposed architecture and design of the IT system, including the IT controls to be built into the system, to ensure they meet the defined requirements, before implementation. | Prime facilitates the review of the proposed IT system architecture and design during the design phase to ensure that all security controls align with defined requirements. |
The Future of Security by Design in Agile and CI/CD Environments
The evolution of Security by Design from a reactive, optional approach to a regulatory guideline reflects the increasing importance of cybersecurity in the modern world. As cyber threats continue to evolve, organizations can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought. SbD ensures that security is a foundational element of system architecture, and compliance with international standards is critical to maintaining secure, resilient systems. By embracing SbD principles, organizations can protect their assets, meet regulatory requirements, and build trust with users in an increasingly interconnected digital landscape.
The rise of Agile development, alongside Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices, presents new challenges to the current, manual approaches. As CI/CD pipelines speed up the development and deployment cycles, the rapid pace of automation can reduce the capacity of human security architects to deliver timely and precise security guidance, and hence become a blocker to the business. To effectively address these challenges, the “Security by Design” framework must be reinforced by automated software tools, such as Prime, that can integrate security checks and controls seamlessly into the accelerated development process.
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Security Design Reviews vs. Threat Modeling (April 2026)
The Nuances of Design Stage Security
If you work in cybersecurity (or security adjacent) you are very familiar with the 2 main practices that help to identify and remediate security concerns before development starts; Threat modeling and Security Design Reviews. Both are practical capabilities, and while threat modeling has a variety of frameworks, design reviews are more of a delicate and tactical process that heavily relies on an intimate knowledge of the business. But have you ever felt like your security reviews are missing the mark? Maybe they’re too generic or don’t account for the unique risks your business faces. The challenge often lies in capturing that elusive business context. While threat modeling is a powerful tool, it often happens to be a hammer, and so reluctantly security has to see every design problem as a nail. This makes threat modeling a default approach even when a more nuanced method, like targeted security reviews, would be more effective. By harnessing Large Language Models (LLMs) to sift through unstructured data, we can finally bring the vital context needed to scale security reviews across the board and provide a supercharged version of this method to security practitioners.
Context: The Critical Factor
Traditional security checks often fall short because they can’t adapt to the specific nuances of your business, and threat modeling alone can’t address all the intricacies of secure development. This is where LLMs come into play. By leveraging new LLM empowered capabilities early in the design stage of the SDLC, we can enhance security reviews with deeper context and precision, making them more effective and efficient. This approach allows you to weave security into your systems right from the start, rather than relying on exhaustive modeling for every scenario.
Providing developers with business-driven, concrete security requirements upfront reduces friction and ensures the right tools are used at the right time. By leveraging security reviews at scale for ongoing, contextual feedback, development teams know exactly what’s expected before writing a single line of code, minimizing rework and keeping projects on track. It substantially reduces the dependency on sometimes very cumbersome threat modeling processes that can be an overkill for the task at hand.
Prime Security: Embedding Security before Development starts
At Prime, we focus on security design reviews because we know they’re the most practical and proactive way to secure products from the ground up. By providing the infrastructure to capture and integrate business context, Prime ensures that your security reviews are tailored to the specific needs of your organization. The result? A product that’s secure by design, allowing your teams to move fast without sacrificing security.
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Product Velocity is Dependent on Product Security
The Cost of Security Stepping in Too Late
It’s a common problem: product development is moving fast, but once security steps in late, everything slows down. As companies grow and products become more complex, security often gets pushed to the end of the process. By then, code is written, deadlines are looming, and vulnerabilities surface. The result? Expensive delays and missed opportunities:
- Development teams scramble to rework code, adding up to 40% more time to the release cycle.
- Release schedules slip, increasing operational costs by 20-30%.
- Customers grow frustrated as features are delayed, leading to negative feedback.
- The relationship between Security and Engineering becomes strained, slowing progress even further.
This isn’t just frustrating—it’s costly. Fixing security issues late in the process can cost up to 10 times more than addressing them earlier. The core issue? Security and engineering aren’t working together early enough.
It's a People, Process, and Technology Problem
Today, companies rely on traditional security processes such as Security Design Reviews, Threat Modeling, and Security Champions programs to bridge the gap between Security and Engineering. According to the SANS DevSecOps Survey, most organizations recognize the value of up-front risk assessments, with over 80% of respondents acknowledging the benefits of early security involvement. However, few consistently implement these assessments early in the development process.
Why? It’s not just a technology issue—it’s a people and process problem too. Security design reviews and threat modeling are often manual, time-consuming, and difficult to scale across fast-moving development cycles. Programs like Security Champions, while valuable in theory, suffer from inconsistent adoption and execution, leaving critical gaps that can be costly to address later.
In a world where businesses need to move quickly to stay competitive, relying on manual, late-stage security processes becomes a significant bottleneck. Addressing vulnerabilities during the design phase is up to 10x cheaper and 70% faster than fixing them post-release. For organizations that rely on fast, iterative releases, every delay can compound, affecting market share, customer satisfaction, and overall growth.
Prime Security’s Approach
At Prime Security, we focus on maintaining product velocity by seamlessly integrating security into the planning and design phases, without disrupting existing workflows. Our platform connects directly with your company’s development tools—like Jira and Confluence—so security becomes part of the process without requiring developers to change their behavior. By automating the identification of risks and providing full visibility into potential issues before any code is written, Prime Security enables teams to take a preventative approach, addressing critical concerns early and keeping development on track. Rather than overwhelming developers with complex security tasks, we simplify the process by offering clear, actionable insights that allow Security and Engineering to collaborate efficiently. Prime Security delivers immediate time-to-value, with actionable insights available within 24 hours of implementation, ensuring teams can avoid last-minute delays and keep the development pipeline running smoothly.
Final Thoughts
When security is left to the end of the development process, product velocity inevitably suffers. But when Security and Engineering collaborate from the start, teams can avoid delays, meet their deadlines, and deliver secure, reliable products faster. By embedding security in the design phase, companies not only prevent costly delays but also gain a competitive advantage by consistently delivering secure, high-quality products at speed. At Prime Security, we help companies shift security left, empowering teams to move quickly without sacrificing security.
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Building Prime Security
As security professionals and technical leaders we’ve experienced the main pain in developing products. The constant struggle of balancing development velocity with security needs. Through it all, one thing became clear, many security challenges could be prevented given the right context at the design phase of the SDLC. Too often, security comes in at the last minute, scrambling to apply fixes after development is complete, leaving both teams frustrated and out of sync.
Sure, security exists in the SDLC today, but it starts to scale when code is written. You can scan for dependencies, catch bugs, and identify vulnerabilities. But Product Security shouldn’t start with code scanning; it needs to start with design. It’s not just about applying processes or enforcing policies; it’s about influencing decisions before a single line of code is written. Security teams need actionable insight into what’s being built and why, from the earliest stages. But extracting that insight is challenging, scaling it across fast-paced teams is even harder, and making it stick while everyone’s sprinting to meet deadlines can feel nearly impossible.
That’s why we built Prime Security. To truly integrate security into modern development, it has to start at the design phase, not after. We’re not here to slow development down; we’re here to give security engineering teams superpowers so they can support developers to make smarter decisions, faster - embedding security directly into their workflows.
With our unique business and security context extraction engine, Prime Security automates risk assessments and generates tailored mitigation recommendations, ensuring that security isn’t just an afterthought, but a partner in the development process. Prime brings hard-won insights from security professionals right to the point where they’re needed most. This isn’t about adding friction; it’s about unlocking development velocity without compromising on security.
This is the future of Product Security: practical, scalable, and context-driven decisions, integrated from day one. With Prime, security and development teams can truly build securely from the start, setting a new standard for scalable, design-first security. We’ve lived through these challenges, and we’re here to solve them, for good.
Michael, Dimitry, Danny, Matan
