How Discern Security built an application security culture with Beagle Security

About Discern Security

Discern Security is a pioneering cybersecurity company that provides AI-driven policy intelligence and automated control management for modern security teams. Its platform enables organizations to unify, optimize, and enforce security policies, delivering real-time risk insights, compliance automation, and continuous posture assessments.

In a short span, Discern Security has gained the trust of major clients including the Canadian Cybersecurity Network, which supports nearly one million members, and Netspoke, a growing leader in secure connectivity.

Discern’s unique value lies in its ability to enhance existing security tools through AI-powered policy orchestration, boosting control utilization by up to 60%, reducing assessment costs by 25%, and increasing compliance coverage by 50%.

Impact TL;DR

What Discern Security gained with Beagle Security:

• Developer-first adoption: Devs fix vulnerabilities during development, not post-deployment.

• Shift-left security: Integrated security testing directly into CI/CD pipeline.

• Better visibility & compliance: PCI DSS-mapped reports with LLM-powered insights.

• Higher ROI: Delivered more value with less overhead than legacy tools.

The challenge

With a strong focus on AI engineering and DevSecOps, Discern practices what they preach.

As a company that secures others, they believe their own infrastructure must be the first to meet the highest security standards.

Generic tools didn’t cut it. Security needed to be a daily habit not a monthly report

Discern Security is committed to embedding security deep into its internal development culture. But their experience with existing tools painted a different picture:

• Overwhelming reports: Most scanners dumped convoluted vulnerability lists that were difficult for non-specialists to interpret.

• Security became siloed: Developers often didn’t engage with the findings. Reports were passed to a security engineer, creating bottlenecks.

• Context was missing: Tools flagged issues, but gave no practical guidance, no remediation context, no actionable code snippets.

• Tool fatigue: Some platforms were part of bulky, expensive enterprise suites. Others required long onboarding cycles and complex dashboards.

• Security lagged behind development: Without real-time integration, security feedback came late in the cycle, delaying releases and creating friction.

We’re building security tools for others. But if our own systems aren’t secure by design, we’re failing at the core.

Rohan Puri

CDO, Discern Security

Solution: From siloed security processes to integrated security culture with Beagle Security

Practical, intelligent, developer-focused and ready on day one

Beagle Security stood out from the crowd immediately. Unlike other platforms that required heavy onboarding or felt bolted onto the development workflow, Beagle Security integrated seamlessly and started delivering value right away.

Here’s what made the difference:

• Clear, contextual reports

Beagle Security doesn’t just say, “Here’s a vulnerability.” It explains what it means, how it can be exploited, and most importantly, how to fix it. This is illustrated with code snippets and links to relevant resources. Developers understand the problem and are guided to a solution.

• A mindset shift from security as a department to security as a culture

Traditional tools make security feel like someone else’s job. Beagle Security’s accessible reports and feedback loops helped developers take ownership. Security became part of daily sprints, rather than something escalated at the end.

Beagle Security helped permeate the responsibility of security throughout our team. It’s not just for the security pro anymore, developers too now handle vulnerabilities confidently.

Rohan Puri

CDO, Discern Security

• Seamless DevOps integration

Beagle Security plugged directly into Discern’s CI/CD pipeline, allowing the team to see test results and vulnerabilities as part of their regular workflow. This ensured real-time visibility and continuous testing.

• Best-in-class customer support from actual engineers

What really stood out to us was the support.It's not a help desk reading from a manual. You're talking to actual engineers who understand the product inside out. They walk you through real scenarios, give actionable advice, and that kind of hands-on guidance adds a lot of value.

Rohan Puri

CDO, Discern Security

• Return on investment in time and outcomes

Every hour spent with Beagle Security paid back 2x in value. Faster fixes, fewer vulnerabilities slipping through, and less time spent decoding long reports all translated into serious efficiency gains.

Every hour we spent using Beagle Security gave us twice the value back. We were fixing issues faster, reducing the number of vulnerabilities making it to production, and not wasting time trying to decode overly complex reports. It’s been a huge efficiency win for us.

Rohan Puri

CDO, Discern Security

Discern’s onboarding experience was refreshingly simple. With zero friction, they were able to:

• Start testing their applications within hours
• Integrate Beagle Security into their pipeline alongside existing CI tools
• Share vulnerability reports across the dev and product teams
• Begin using security feedback in sprint planning discussions

Beagle Security’s dashboard offered real-time test progress, role-based access, and intuitive design different from the cluttered, overly complex dashboards they were used to.

Beagle Security’s impact on Discern’s AppSec culture

Here’s what Discern gained by adopting Beagle Security:

• Developer-first security adoption

Devs now actively address vulnerabilities during development, not as an afterthought.

• Shift-left implementation

Beagle Security enabled true shift-left security with security tests and feedback loops as part of builds.

• Improved visibility and reporting

Pentest reports mapped against PCI DSS compliance standards are now available on demand, with LLM-powered insights making them easier to interpret.

• High ROI with low overhead

Time and effort invested in Beagle Security returned more value compared to any legacy or big-name tool they’d tried before.

If you’re just checking a box, you can go with anything. But if you’re serious about building a cybersecurity culture, not just a security process then Beagle Security is your best bet.

Rohan Puri

CDO, Discern Security

Discern Security didn’t just adopt Beagle Security as a tool, they adopted it as a culture enabler. In a world where security is often seen as friction, Beagle Security helped turn it into a strength.