Stopping Unmanaged Code Changes in Their Tracks

Modern applications undergo thousands of code and configuration changes every week, and many can introduce real security risks. Whether introduced by a human or an AI coding tool, not all changes are equal. Understanding and managing these changes is critical. Legit’s AI-powered capabilities automate the detection, assessment, and remediation of code changes to help you maintain a strong AppSec posture.

High-risk changes get buried under mountains of routine commits

Manual code reviews don’t scale for the speed of modern development

Alert fatigue from false positives slows teams down and creates friction

Missed changes introduce gaps that compromise your AppSec and compliance postures

You can reduce risk from code changes by

Pinpointing high-risk changes

Ensure your team has visibility into changes that may have a material impact on your security posture

Automating code change detection

Apply AI to automate the identification of code changes that present risk

Enacting guardrails and prevention

Put policies and automated guardrails in place to ensure code changes are managed securely

Standardizing the change process

Apply consistent change control processes to code to prevent high-risk issues from hitting production

Key Features of Legit Advanced Code Change Management

Risky Code Change Detection

Legit identifies all code changes across your development environment and leverages AI to highlight any change that may adversely impact your security posture.

Context for Smart Decision-Making

Legit delivers a comprehensive view of your development environment and uses this context to ensure developers focus on mitigating risk where it matters – rather than chasing every change-related alert and ticket.

Automated Security Reviews & Remediation Workflows

Legit enables you to establish consistent workflows for developers so risky changes are addressed as defined by your organization’s security and compliance policies. You can also put clear and automated security reviews in place, based on policy, for high-risk changes.

Preventative Guardrails

Legit is designed with prevention in mind. The platform enables you to establish clear guardrails for code changes and allows you to automatically enforce the guardrails to drive consistent security.

AI-Powered Accuracy

Legit leverages AI to deliver you the most accurate results. With low false positives, we help you ensure your developers spend their time on the issues that matter to your security posture without wasting time and resources.

How Do Risky Changes Slip By?

Inadvertent risky edits in code or configs

Temporary shortcuts or overlooked changes to auth/crypto/data controls

Third‑party & dependency updates

Transitive changes alter security posture without direct code edits

Misconfigurations in pipelines & IaC

Build logs, runners, and IaC defaults introduce exploitable paths

Privilege & permission changes

Role/ownership edits expand access beyond least‑privilege

AI code bypasses security

AI-generated code merged without full context or understanding of embedded logic without security review

Secrets exposure

Secrets accidentally committed by developers or AI code assistance

Frequently Asked Questions

It’s the continuous analysis, control, and evidence capture of high‑impact code and config changes to prevent risky changes from reaching production. By reviewing, controlling, and securing code changes between development and production, organizations minimize the risk of introducing vulnerabilities to software.

SAST flags code issues broadly, while Advanced Change Management zeroes in on risky diffs and orchestrates reviews, ownership, and guardrails.

No. Automated triage and policy‑driven reviews keep feedback fast and consistent so teams ship safely without extra toil.

Yes. It integrates with popular code hosts, CI/CD, and collaboration systems for analysis, gating, and notifications.

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Stopping Unmanaged Code Changes in Their Tracks