Jit + Semgrep Code: Unifying Best-in-Class SAST with Complete Product Security

Bringing Together Best-of-Breed SAST and Context-Driven Risk Prioritization

We’re excited to announce Jit’s integration with Semgrep Code, bringing best-of-breed static application security testing (SAST) into Jit’s complete product security platform. This integration makes it easier than ever for security teams to detect, unify, and prioritize code security vulnerabilities alongside other product security risks.

• Leverage industry-leading SAST – Semgrep Code delivers high-precision static analysis with cross-file and cross-function detection, detailed code security issue descriptions of data flow and taint analysis, an expansive ruleset, and customizable rules, making it the powerful SAST solution available.

• Unify all security risks in one place – View Semgrep Code's findings alongside Jit-detected issues from SCA, IaC scanning, CSPM, DAST, and secrets detection – all within Jit’s unified backlog.

• Prioritize based on real-world risk – Jit enriches Semgrep Code’s findings with runtime and business context, helping teams focus on vulnerabilities that impact production, expose sensitive data, or are internet-facing.

With Jit + Semgrep Code, security teams and developers get the best of both worlds—cutting-edge static analysis, seamlessly integrated into a holistic, context-driven security workflow. 

Why We Built the Integration

Our fork of Semgrep’s free Community Edition (Opengrep) provides basic coverage for small teams, while Semgrep Code adds the languages, coverage, and noise reduction needed for enterprise-scale SAST.

Semgrep Code provides fast, accurate, and actionable vulnerability detection, while traditional approaches to static application security testing (SAST) and product security often fall short. Here’s why:

Most SAST Tools Are Unworkable

Many SAST solutions overwhelm developers with false positives, miss complex security weaknesses that span multiple files or functions, and struggle to detect vulnerabilities unique to specific environments.

Solution: Get findings that are 5x more precise than Semgrep CE Semgrep Code is a best-in-class SAST solution with cross-file and cross-function analysis, an expansive rule set, and the ability to customize rules for application-specific threats. With high accuracy and minimal noise, it empowers teams to surface real security issues—without unnecessary friction.

Product Security Issues Are Siloed

Security teams rely on multiple tools to detect risks—SAST for code vulnerabilities, SCA for dependency risks, CSPM for cloud misconfigurations, secrets detection for hardcoded credentials, and more. But when findings are scattered across different dashboards, teams struggle to get a complete picture of risk.

Solution: Unified Security Findings in Jit

Jit ingests Semgrep Code’s SAST findings and unifies them with the rest of Jit’s security findings—including SCA, secrets detection, IaC scanning, DAST, and CSPM. While Semgrep Code also includes SCA and secrets detection, the integration with Jit unifies Semgrep-detected findings with the rest of the product security scanning suite. 

This creates a single source of truth, streamlining security workflows and eliminating fragmented risk management.

Backlogs Are Too Long and Noisy

Security backlogs quickly become unmanageable, filled with low-risk issues that consume valuable time and resources. Without a way to prioritize security issues based on real-world risk, teams struggle to focus on the vulnerabilities that truly matter.

Solution: Context-Driven Risk Prioritization with Jit Jit enriches Semgrep Code’s SAST findings with runtime and business context, helping teams identify which vulnerabilities impact production, are internet-facing, or interact with sensitive data. By filtering out noise and highlighting the highest-risk issues, Jit makes it easy for security teams and developers to resolve critical vulnerabilities first.

The Bottom Line

With Jit + Semgrep Code, teams get best-in-class SAST seamlessly integrated into a unified, context-driven security workflow—helping them detect, prioritize, and resolve security issues faster than ever.

How the Jit + Semgrep Code Integration Works

The Jit + Semgrep Code integration brings best-of-breed SAST directly into Jit’s product security platform, allowing security teams to detect, prioritize, and remediate code security risks seamlessly. Here’s how it works:

Prerequisite: A Semgrep AppSec Platform Account

To use Semgrep Code’s advanced SAST capabilities within Jit, users must have an active Semgrep AppSec account. The Semgrep Pro CLI is leveraged to perform scans, and authentication with Semgrep is required for execution.

Jit Orchestrates Semgrep Code Scanning

Jit automates and orchestrates Semgrep Code scans at two critical points in the development lifecycle:

Pull Request (PR) Scanning

• Jit triggers Semgrep Code scans on every pull request (PR) in GitHub or GitLab, ensuring vulnerabilities are caught before they are merged.

• Findings are added as PR comments, so developers never have to leave their coding environment to resolve security issues.

• Auto-remediation is available, allowing developers to fix issues with one click.



Codebase Scanning

• Jit runs scheduled or on-demand full codebase scans on selected repositories or projects.

• Findings are aggregated into Jit’s security backlog, where they are unified with security issues detected by other Jit scanners, including:

  - Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for open-source CVEs

  - Secrets detection for hardcoded credentials

  - Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

  - Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

  - Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) misconfiguration detection



This orchestration ensures continuous security feedback for developers while providing security teams with a centralized view of all application risks.

Context-Driven Prioritization: Focus on What Matters

Jit doesn’t just collect security findings—it prioritizes them based on real-world risk. Jit’s Context Engine analyzes each Semgrep Code-detected issue to determine:

• Is the vulnerable code being deployed to production?

• Is it exposed to the internet?

• Does it interact with a sensitive database or critical infrastructure?

Jit creates a risk score based on these runtime factors, automatically bringing the real risks to the top of your backlog.

To see Jit’s Context Engine in action, check out the demo video:

Understanding Semgrep Code’s Output Structure

Semgrep Code’s findings follow a structured format to provide developers with clear, actionable insights. Each security issue includes:

• Rule Name / Identifier: A unique identifier specifying the type of security rule being violated.

• Issue Description: A detailed explanation of the detected security risk, why it’s dangerous, and potential attack scenarios.

• Code Snippet Showing the Issue (Sink): Semgrep highlights the exact line of code where the vulnerability occurs.

• Taint Analysis / Data Flow Information: Semgrep’s taint analysis helps developers understand how user-controlled input flows through the application before reaching a dangerous function.

  - Taint Source: Where the untrusted input originates.

  - Intermediate Variables: How the data moves through the code before reaching the sink.

• Propagation Path (How Data Reaches the Sink): A breakdown of how tainted data moves through the code before reaching the vulnerable function.

By combining Semgrep Code’s deep SAST insights with Jit’s context-driven risk prioritization, teams can quickly detect, understand, and remediate critical security issues—before they become real threats.

Unify, Prioritize, and Secure Code with Jit + Semgrep Code

Security teams shouldn’t have to choose between best-in-class static analysis and comprehensive product security management—they need both.

By combining Semgrep Code’s SAST capabilities with Jit’s complete security orchestration and contextual risk analysis, security teams and developers get the best of both worlds—powerful code security scanning, seamlessly integrated into a holistic product security platform.

Reach out to Jit and Semgrep to get started with the integration!