Automate Your Security: Introducing Corgea's Scheduled Scans

Security never sleeps, but your development team shouldn't have to stay awake worrying about when to run their next security scan. Today, we're excited to introduce Scheduled Scans, a powerful new feature that automates your security scanning workflows and ensures consistent protection across your entire codebase.

The Problem It Solves

Manual security scanning creates gaps. Teams forget to scan after major releases, miss critical branches during busy periods, or struggle to maintain consistent security coverage across dozens of projects. These gaps leave vulnerabilities undetected for weeks or months, creating significant risk exposure.

Scheduled Scans eliminates this uncertainty by automating your security scanning workflows. Set it once, and your projects receive consistent, reliable security coverage on your schedule, whether that's daily, weekly, monthly, or on a custom cadence that fits your development cycle.

How It Works

Corgea's Scheduled Scans feature provides enterprise-grade automation with the flexibility your team needs:

1. Flexible Scope Definition

Configure scans to target specific projects or use tag-based selection to automatically include projects that match your criteria. This means new projects with the right tags automatically inherit your security scanning schedule without manual intervention.

2. Comprehensive Scan Types

Each scheduled scan can include multiple security analysis types:

• BLAST (Static Application Security Testing)

• Policy enforcement scans

• PII detection

• Dependencies (Software Composition Analysis)

• Secrets detection

• Malicious code detection

3. Intelligent Scheduling

Choose from six frequency options—Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Biannual, or Yearly—with granular timing controls. Specify exact days of the week, days of the month, or even target specific months for biannual and yearly scans.

4. Automatic Load Balancing

Behind the scenes, Corgea's schedule rebalancer automatically distributes your scans throughout the day to optimize system performance and ensure consistent execution times. No more worrying about scan conflicts or system overload during peak hours.

5. Branch-Specific Scanning

For single-project schedules, specify which branch to scan, ensuring your security analysis targets the right code at the right time in your development workflow.

What You Can Do With It

• Compliance Automation: Set up quarterly scans for compliance reporting, ensuring you have fresh security data when auditors come calling. Configure the scan to run on the first day of each quarter, automatically generating the security posture reports you need.

• Release Pipeline Integration: Create weekly scans on your main branches to catch security issues before they make it to production. Tag all your production projects with "production" and schedule comprehensive scans every Monday morning.

• Dependency Monitoring: Schedule monthly SCA scans across all projects to stay ahead of newly disclosed vulnerabilities in your dependencies. As new CVEs are published, your scheduled scans will automatically detect affected components.

• PII Compliance: For organizations handling sensitive data, schedule weekly PII detection scans on projects tagged "customer-data" to ensure personal information isn't inadvertently committed to your repositories.

• Multi-Environment Coverage: Use tag-based scheduling to automatically scan development, staging, and production environments on different cadences—daily for development, weekly for staging, and monthly for production.

Why You Should Care

• Eliminate Security Debt: Consistent automated scanning prevents the accumulation of security debt that plagues many development teams. Instead of discovering months-old vulnerabilities during pre-release security reviews, catch issues within days of introduction.

• Reduce Manual Overhead: Your security and DevOps teams can focus on remediation instead of remembering to run scans. Scheduled Scans handles the "when" so your team can focus on the "what" and "how" of security improvements.

• Ensure Compliance Readiness: Regulatory frameworks increasingly require evidence of ongoing security monitoring. Scheduled Scans provides the consistent, documented security analysis that compliance auditors expect to see.

• Scale Security Operations: As your organization grows from dozens to hundreds of repositories, manual scanning becomes impossible. Scheduled Scans scales with your organization, automatically incorporating new projects and maintaining security coverage without proportional increases in security team workload.

• Improve Issue SLA Management: Combined with Corgea's SLA tracking, scheduled scans ensure you have fresh data to measure remediation timeframes accurately. Know exactly how long critical vulnerabilities remain unaddressed and get automated notifications when issues exceed your defined SLA thresholds.

• Optimize Resource Utilization: The intelligent load balancing ensures your security scans don't compete for resources, maintaining consistent scan performance even as you scale your scheduled scanning program.

By automating the discovery phase of your security workflow, your team can dedicate more time to the high-value work of actually fixing vulnerabilities instead of hunting for them. Ready to automate your security? Set up your first scheduled scan today and experience the confidence that comes with consistent, automated security coverage.