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From finding to shielding vulnerabilities

Finding problems that didn’t go away was the beginning of RedShield. With a background in penetration testing, the RedShield co-founders kept coming across the same problem - organisations struggled to fix their pen test findings, and the same results would crop up in reports year after year. Security controls were consistently falling short when it came to mitigating real-world app security issues.

Also having decades of experience in building some of the world’s largest web app defense systems, the RedShield co-founders set about finding a better and faster way to address findings. That’s where they created shielding.

Cybersecurity shielding

Every organisation runs on web apps and APIs. And almost every one of them has vulnerabilities. The challenge isn’t finding issues. It’s fixing them fast enough.

RedShield reduces exploitable risk in days, not months, by shielding vulnerabilities before attackers can use them, without changing your code.

Our custom Shields rewrite application requests and responses “on the wire”, fixing application-specific flaws in real time.

Our managed service applies tailored protections directly at the application layer, stopping exploitation immediately without requiring code changes. This allows organisations to secure critical applications, including legacy and third-party systems, while maintaining normal development cycles.

 

We work with organisations across government, financial services, and critical infrastructure to:

 

- Close the gap between discovery and remediation

- Reduce exposure to real-world attacks

- Provide measurable proof of risk reduction RedShield is not another WAF or scanning tool.

It’s a different approach to application security, one focused on outcomes, not alerts.

Cybersecurity discussion

The problem with
patching

It is still common for patch programmes to work around monthly remediation cycles, but attacker timelines have moved inside that window. Verizon's 2025 DBIR found that vulnerability exploitation reached 20% of breaches, up 34% year on year.

The bigger issue is that exploitation often starts before the patching clock even begins. VulnCheck identified 884 CVEs with first-time evidence of exploitation in the wild during 2025, and 28.96% were exploited on or before the day the CVE was disclosed - up from 23.6% in 2024. Google also tracked 90 zero-days exploited in the wild in 2025, including 43 in enterprise software and appliances.

At the same time, vulnerability volume keeps rising. In 2025, 48,185 CVEs were published - roughly 132 per day - up 20.6% from 2024. Security teams are no longer dealing with occasional patching events; they are dealing with daily triage.

And the backlog is worse for application security. Edgescan's 2025 data shows average remediation times of 74.3 days for application vulnerabilities. Only 56% of vulnerabilities were closed within six months, and 17.4% of critical and high vulnerabilities were still open after 12 months. Veracode also found that 70% of critical security debt comes from third-party code, which takes about 50% longer to fix.
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You already know the problem

  • Vulnerabilities are identified constantly through scans and pen tests
  • Fixing them takes time, coordination, and engineering effort
  • Legacy and third-party systems can’t be easily patched
  • Attackers can weaponise exploits in hours

This creates a growing gap between risk exposure and remediation, and that’s where breaches happen. RedShield’s web application security service addresses this remediation gap, lowering your risk, without disrupting your business.

North America

PO Box 50255
Jacksonville Beach, Florida, 32250

+1 (844) 977 3303
americas@redshield.co

New Zealand

P.O. Box 25609
Wellington

+64 4 887 1117
nz@redshield.co

 

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