We live in a world where developers and security teams are drowning in alerts. Every scanner, every automated tool, every “security dashboard” promises to tell you what matters—but in reality, most of it is noise.

I’ve seen teams spend weeks chasing false positives, patching things that weren’t critical, while the real vulnerabilities quietly slipped through the cracks.

Here’s the hard truth:

  1. Alerts don’t equal risks. Most tools generate hundreds of notifications that have little real-world impact.
  2. Context is missing. A vulnerability in a library may not be exploitable in your environment.
  3. Time is the real enemy. Devs can’t fix everything. Prioritization is everything.

This isn’t just frustration—it’s a failure in how we communicate security.

Over the coming weeks, I’ll share ways to focus on the signals that truly matter, how to aggregate, contextualize, and act on security findings, and why most “tools” fail to do that.

If you care about fixing the right problems, follow Armored Code. The goal isn’t just security—it’s effective security.