Everyone raves about the centralized dashboard. The charts, the trend lines, the management reports. It's a CISO's fantasy.
But it's also where vulnerabilities go to die. By the time a finding hits that dashboard, it's already baked into a pull request. The context is lost. The developer has moved on.
The IDE plugin, ironically, is the only part that actually prevents bugs. It catches the stupid `String password = "password";` before it's committed. It gives the fix *right there*, while the code is still fresh. The dashboard just audits the mess later for someone else to clean up. Feels like security theater.
The real value is in the flow, not the post-mortem. But they don't price it that way, do they? You pay for the dashboard bloat. The useful part feels like an afterthought.
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