At Cortex, our mission is to help engineering organizations deliver reliable, secure, efficient software, faster. With Cortex, teams can standardize against best practices and create a culture of continuous improvement to achieve this. Today, we’re excited to announce a formalized partnership with Semgrep, a leader in modern static analysis and code security.
Together, Cortex and Semgrep are empowering teams to monitor, measure, and continuously improve their security posture, right from the developer portal.
Security and quality data where it matters most
Cortex serves as the internal developer portal for modern engineering teams. By aggregating software assets across repositories, infrastructure, and monitoring systems into a central catalog, Cortex gives teams a unified view of their services and resources.
Each entity page in Cortex surfaces live data from over 50 integrations, including Semgrep, so teams can see everything from ownership and deployment status to security findings, vulnerabilities, and code risks in one place.
This unified visibility ensures that developers and security teams are working from the same source of truth, reducing context switching and making it easier to act on insights from Semgrep directly within Cortex.
Turning security insights into action with Scorecards
Our partnership with Semgrep goes beyond surfacing findings, it’s about helping organizations drive real improvement.
With Cortex Scorecards, teams can define and measure adherence to security best practices using Semgrep data. Scorecards let organizations set clear standards for code safety, coverage, and policy compliance, and track every service against those benchmarks.
For example, a team might define:
Bronze: Basic ownership and alerting configured
Silver: All critical vulnerabilities from Semgrep resolved
Gold: Zero known vulnerabilities and Semgrep scans passing in CI
These rules give developers a structured, gamified way to continuously raise their security maturity, while helping leadership ensure consistency across the organization.
Driving organizational change with Initiatives
Cortex also enables teams to create Initiatives, targeted programs that drive progress toward key goals.
We’re already working with [[mutual customers]] who are using Cortex and Semgrep together to build a Security Standards Scorecard. Their goal? Improve vulnerability management across their security tools, including Semgrep, by setting deadlines and tracking progress through Cortex Initiatives.
When a service or repository fails a rule, like having open critical issues in Semgrep, Cortex automatically notifies the right owners, tracks progress, and provides visibility for engineering and security leadership.
This is where the power of Cortex and Semgrep truly shines: turning static analysis into continuous action.
A partnership for scalable, developer-centric security
As security shifts left, developers need the right tools to identify and resolve issues early, without slowing down delivery. Cortex and Semgrep together make this possible by embedding actionable security insights directly into the development lifecycle.
With this partnership, teams can:
Standardize security expectations across all services
Automatically measure adherence to those standards using Semgrep data
Drive continuous improvement through Scorecards and Initiatives
Give leaders real-time visibility into organizational security posture
Get started
If you’re already using Cortex, the Semgrep integration can help you take your security governance to the next level.
And if you’re new to either platform, now’s the perfect time to see how they work together to unify visibility, enforce best practices, and strengthen your codebase.
