Quantifies the annual $28k-per-developer 'Security Toil' tax and identifies the low adoption of pre-deployment SAST scanning as a critical supply chain risk.
An IDC survey reveals that organizations spend an average of $28,100 per developer annually on security-related 'toil,' with 50% of senior developers reporting a significant increase in their weekly security workload. Developers spend an estimated 19% of their working hours on security tasks—often outside normal hours—including 3.5 hours purely on manually triaging false positives and duplicate scan findings. While 69% of developers cite multi-tool context switching as a major productivity drain, secrets detection alone consumes 50% of their dedicated security time. Alarmingly, despite the integration of security tools into local environments, only 23% of developers execute SAST scans before deployment, creating a massive vulnerability gap in the production supply chain.
Developers spend 3.5 hours on average manually reviewing security scanning findings because of false positives and duplicates... Only 23% of developers are running SAST scans before deploying.
Risk Guard provides security data but doesn't calculate the 'Context Switching Overhead' or 'False Positive Noise' tax associated with its findings.
Risk Guard would be better if it prioritized findings by 'Confidence Score' to minimize the 3.5-hour weekly false-positive review burden.