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19/08/2026 4:05 pm
TL;DR: Data silos between development and security teams leave vulnerabilities, compliance evidence, and remediation context stranded across separate tools, and Appknox argues that real-time integration and automation reduce those blind spots, according to Appknox. The practical issue is not visibility alone but shared operational ownership, because fragmented workflows slow fixes and make risk harder to govern.
NHIMG editorial — based on content published by Appknox: Breaking Down Data Silos Between Development and Security Teams
By the numbers:
- Enterprises that eliminate silos achieve 40% faster remediation, 50% fewer compliance gaps, and stronger risk visibility.
- Organizations with poor visibility and delayed incident response due to siloed data spent $1.23 million more per breach on average.
- 44% of organizations say gaps in their IT and security relationship hinder threat management.
Questions worth separating out
Q: How should security teams reduce data silos between development and security workflows?
A: Start by linking code, build, vulnerability, and ticket systems so findings carry their original context into remediation.
Q: Why do data silos increase compliance and breach risk in software delivery?
A: Because they break the chain between detection, ownership, and proof.
Q: What do teams get wrong about DevSecOps visibility?
A: Many teams treat visibility as a dashboard problem when it is really a workflow problem.
Practitioner guidance
- Map the evidence path across delivery systems Identify where code commits, build logs, vulnerability scans, tickets, and audit trails live, then document where ownership changes and context is lost.
- Integrate security findings into engineering workflows Push scan results into the same tools developers already use, including CI/CD and issue tracking, so findings arrive with commit, build, and release context.
- Standardise severity and SLA definitions Align security, development, and compliance teams on one severity scale, one escalation path, and one remediation SLA set.
What's in the full article
Appknox's full blog post covers the operational detail this post intentionally leaves for the source:
- The step-by-step workflow Appknox describes for linking CI/CD, vulnerability scanners, and issue trackers.
- The example metrics the article uses to show how faster remediation and lower compliance gaps are measured.
- The CXO scorecard questions included in the source for assessing maturity across teams.
- The product-specific explanation of how Appknox embeds continuous vulnerability assessment into mobile development.
👉 Read Appknox’s analysis of breaking down data silos between development and security teams →
Data silos in DevSecOps: what security teams need to fix?
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19/08/2026 4:39 pm
Data silos are an evidence-governance failure, not just a tooling problem. When development and security teams cannot see the same vulnerability and release context, accountability breaks down before remediation even starts. The issue is less about dashboards and more about whether control evidence survives the handoff between teams. Practitioners should treat shared evidence flow as a governance requirement, not an optional workflow improvement.
A question worth separating out:
Q: What should leaders do when development and security teams use different toolsets?
A: Create shared reporting and escalation standards first, then integrate the tools that generate the most important evidence. Leaders should care less about one platform for everything and more about whether the organisation can trace a finding from discovery to closure without manual rework.
👉 Read our full editorial: Data silos between development and security teams raise mobile risk
