Security teams often identify critical vulnerabilities, but fixing them at scale, across environments and teams, is the real challenge. What slows remediation down isn’t always technical debt, but operational disconnect.
Findings live in one platform, remediation happens in another. That’s exactly what this integration solves.
Strobes connects directly to Jira to eliminate that gap, automatically converting vulnerabilities into Jira issues, enriching them with context, and tracking remediation progress in real time.
Let’s walk through how the integration works, what problems it addresses, and the outcomes it enables for security, engineering, and risk management teams.
What Is Jira?
Jira is a widely adopted issue-tracking platform, primarily used by software, DevOps, and IT teams to manage tasks, bugs, features, and sprints. For security programs, Jira plays a critical role in:
- Assigning remediation tasks to the right developers or system owners
- Tracking SLA deadlines for vulnerability resolution
- Maintaining an audit trail for compliance
But Jira was never built for vulnerability data. It doesn’t natively understand CVEs, CVSS scores, asset tags, or exploit metadata. That’s where Strobes fills the gap.
What Is Strobes?
Strobes is a Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform built to operationalize security findings across an organization. It acts as the central engine that:
- Ingests data from scanners and external tools
- Deduplicates and correlates findings
- Prioritizes based on exploitability, asset sensitivity, and business impact
- Automates remediation workflows
- Tracks SLA compliance and reporting
When connected with Jira, Strobes transforms raw vulnerabilities into structured, trackable engineering tasks automatically.
The Purpose of Jira Integration with Strobes
This integration is built for security teams who:
- Use Jira to manage engineering or infrastructure work
- Need to eliminate manual copy-pasting of vulnerabilities into tickets
- Want to track remediation status in one place
- Require SLA driven accountability
- Are you looking to enable real-time updates across both systems
By connecting Jira and Strobes, you get automated ticket creation, real-time syncing of status, and full visibility into remediation workflows.
What the Integration Actually Does?
1. Ticket Creation from Vulnerabilities
As vulnerabilities are ingested into Strobes, workflows can trigger automatic Jira ticket creation based on:
- Severity (e.g., Critical, High)
- Asset group (e.g., internet-facing, regulated)
- Scanner source (e.g., Nessus, Qualys, SAST tools)
- Environment tags (e.g., production, staging)
Each ticket includes:
- Title and description of the issue
- CVSS score, CVE ID, and associated threat context
- A direct link back to the finding in Strobes
- Custom fields like environment, owner, and affected asset
No more CSV exports. No more triaging in email threads.
2. Bi-directional Sync (Optional)
Once the Jira issue is created:
- Status updates (e.g., from “To Do” to “Done”) are reflected back in Strobes
- Comments added in Jira can be made visible in Strobes’ audit trail
- Reopen actions in Jira can trigger reopening in Strobes if needed
- Issue resolution time is tracked in both systems
This closes the feedback loop. Security knows when an issue is closed. Engineering gets tickets in the systems they already use.
3. Workflow Automation
Strobes allows you to define rules like:
- “Create a Jira ticket for any Critical vulnerability on a production asset.”
- “Assign to Infrastructure team if asset tag includes ‘public-facing’”
- “Apply 7-day SLA if the asset belongs to the Finance group.”
You can configure these flows once and apply them globally or per project. As new findings come in, the system acts without human bottlenecks.
4. Tracking SLA Compliance and Fix Progress
The integration tracks:
- Issue creation and resolution timestamps
- SLA deadlines (e.g., 7-day fix for Critical, 30-day for High)
- Remediation duration per team, asset group, or business unit
- Pending, overdue, or resolved status distribution
All of this is available in dashboards, downloadable reports, or via API for GRC or compliance teams.
5. Unified Dashboards and Reporting
Security teams, engineering managers, and GRC leaders get role-specific views:
- Security: Open vs. resolved vulnerabilities with associated tickets
- Engineering: Assigned backlog grouped by team, SLA, or severity
- Compliance: Audit reports showing how vulnerabilities map to ISO, NIST, PCI-DSS, etc.
- CXOs: Risk exposure trends and remediation velocity
Data that was once scattered across tools now sits in one system, structured and ready for reporting.
Why Jira Integration with Strobes Matters?
This isn’t just about sending data from Strobes to Jira. It’s about solving operational inefficiencies:
1. Eliminates Manual Triage
- Tickets are auto-generated based on rules, no security analyst required
- Ownership is assigned based on pre-configured asset tags or business unit mappings
- Status updates require no cross-checking across systems
2. Reduces MTTR (Mean Time to Remediate)
- Tickets are raised instantly
- SLA countdowns start automatically
- Visibility into what’s overdue or pending is built in
3. Supports Enterprise Workflows
- Multi-project Jira environments are supported
- Integration scales with thousands of tickets and assets
- Supports customized field mappings and conditional routing
4. Maintains Audit-Readiness
- Every ticket links back to a finding
- Every status change is time-stamped
- Every comment or update is traceable
Who Uses Jira Integration with Strobes?
- Enterprises running multi-team DevSecOps workflows
- Financial and healthcare companies with SLA-driven mandates
- SaaS organizations scaling vulnerability remediation
- Managed service providers needing visibility across clients
Final Thoughts
Jira handles task management. Strobes handles vulnerability intelligence. Jira Integration with Strobes brings them together, so your remediation is not just fast, but measurable and trackable.
If you’re spending more time organizing vulnerabilities than fixing them, this is where you fix that.
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