Integrating Burp Suite with Strobes for Smarter AppSec

Burp Suite is one of the most trusted tools for dynamic application security testing (DAST). But finding vulnerabilities is only the starting point. Most teams hit a bottleneck after the scan, drowning in exported reports, repetitive triage, unclear priorities, and disconnected remediation workflows.

That’s where the Burp Suite integration with Strobes comes in. It eliminates manual overhead, converts findings into prioritized tasks, and delivers measurable results across engineering and security.

This blog breaks down how the integration works, what specific pain points it solves, and why it helps security and DevOps teams scale with clarity.

What Is Burp Suite Scan?

Burp Suite Scan, developed by PortSwigger, is widely used for identifying web application and API vulnerabilities through automated and manual testing. It comes in two versions:

• Burp Suite Professional – for manual security testing.
• Burp Suite Enterprise – for scalable, automated scans across environments.

Its key strengths include:

• Advanced crawling and active scanning for OWASP Top 10 and beyond
• Configurable scan pipelines for CI/CD integration
• REST API support for flexible automation
• Custom scan profiles for tailored test coverage

While Burp provides excellent vulnerability discovery, it doesn’t support:

• Context-aware triage or risk-based scoring
• Cross-tool correlation or deduplication
• Workflow automation to track remediation
• Real-time dashboards for SLA or fix tracking

This is where Strobes adds significant value.

What Is Strobes?

Strobes is a security orchestration and risk-based vulnerability management platform designed to improve how organizations detect, prioritize, and remediate security issues. It supports integration with a wide array of tools, including scanners like Burp, SAST/DAST/SCA sources, ticketing platforms, and threat intelligence feeds.

Strobes delivers:

• Automated ingestion of Burp Suite Scan results (via REST API or Enterprise integration)
• Enrichment using asset criticality and exploiting data
• Prioritization based on business impact
• Workflow automation from ticketing to validation
• Unified dashboards across all tools and teams

In essence, Strobes converts Burp Suite Scan output into a continuous feedback loop across SecOps and DevOps.

The Purpose of Integrating Burp Suite with Strobes

Security teams using Burp often deal with these challenges:

• Report overload: Manually exporting and parsing scan results
• No prioritization logic: All findings treated equally regardless of business impact
• Scattered remediation: Fixes tracked in spreadsheets or siloed tickets
• Lack of visibility: No unified view of vulnerability lifecycle or SLA metrics

With this integration, findings go directly from Burp into structured, contextual workflows, enabling faster triage and tighter feedback cycles between security and engineering.

What the Integration Actually Does

Let’s unpack the integration capabilities in five core areas:

1. Data Ingestion from Burp Suite

Strobes connects to Burp in two ways:

• Burp Suite Enterprise API – Scheduled scan pulls
• Burp REST API – Custom scan result uploads from Pro or automated systems

From there, it imports:

• Asset metadata: Target URL, IP, environment tags
• Finding details: Issue type, description, severity, remediation steps
• Evidence: Request/response pairs, scan time, issue confidence levels

You can run daily or weekly syncs, or push data manually via API.

2. Normalization and Deduplication

Once findings enter Strobes, they’re normalized into a consistent schema and deduplicated automatically.

• Identical issues across repeated scans? Collapsed.
• Vulnerabilities already resolved? Marked as closed or regressed.
• Issues reported by both Burp and another scanner (like ZAP)? Correlated.

This eliminates the false sense of urgency caused by duplicated tickets and reduces analyst fatigue.

3. Risk-Based Prioritization

Burp assigns severities, but doesn’t account for:

• Whether the asset is production or staging
• Whether the app is public-facing or internal
• Whether the vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild

Strobes adds those layers with:

• Exploitability ratings from threat intelligence feeds
• Business criticality based on asset tagging and ownership
• Environment sensitivity (prod, test, finance, etc.)
• Historical data on similar findings in your environment

You get a risk score that’s unique to your context, not just a CVSS guess.

4. Automated Remediation Workflows

Once prioritized, vulnerabilities can be routed to:

• Jira or Azure Boards as actionable tickets
• Slack or Teams for real-time alerts
• Email or ServiceNow for ITSM workflows

Automation rules can assign tickets based on:

• Asset ownership
• Severity level
• Business unit or environment

And once fixed, Strobes verifies remediation through re-scans or manual validation. Status updates are fed back into dashboards, closing the loop.

5. Unified Dashboards and Reporting

Security teams, engineering leads, and compliance officers get one consolidated view:

• Open vs. resolved vulnerabilities
• SLA compliance by business unit
• Risk exposure by app, asset, or environment
• Compliance readiness (e.g., ISO, NIST, SOC 2)

No more toggling between scan reports, tickets, and spreadsheets. It’s all traceable in one place.

Strategic Benefits of the Integration

This isn’t just a technical connector, it’s a strategic workflow optimizer. Here’s how:

Designed For

This integration is built for:

• Mid-to-large engineering teams using Burp for recurring DAST
• DevSecOps orgs managing APIs, internal tools, and production apps
• SaaS and financial services firms are subject to compliance audits
• Security teams needing traceability, not just tickets

Whether you run Burp Suite Scan on 10 apps or 1000, this integration ensures your testing results drive decisions, not just documentation.

Final Thoughts

Burp Suite helps you detect runtime risks. Strobes turns those results into real-time, risk-informed actions.

This integration is for teams who want to eliminate unnecessary triage, speed up vulnerability closure, and deliver AppSec value without extra workload.

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