Securing the Full Application Lifecycle with Upwind and OX Security

In today’s fast-paced development environments, the speed of software delivery has outpaced traditional security workflows. APIs are often published before they’re reviewed, cloud resources are deployed via automation, and new vulnerabilities emerge in runtime that never existed in dev or staging. It’s estimated that over 50% of data breaches by 2025 will originate from unprotected APIs and misconfigurations introduced during CI/CD.

Upwind and OX Security have partnered to close this gap, securing applications from build to deployment to runtime. Together, they provide a connected, real-time view of risk across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), allowing security teams to prioritize what’s exploitable and respond faster with full context.

“Upwind has given us an incredible amount of visibility into our operations. This has transformed how we do security. Having these runtime insights has been key in helping us prioritize risk, understand what we have deployed and how resources are behaving.”

-Siim Kobin, Head of IT Operations, Tickmill

Upwind and OX Security: Better Together

Upwind and OX deliver a unified solution for modern application and cloud security. OX helps teams identify the most critical issues at the earliest stages of development using its code-first, context-driven approach. Upwind then brings runtime validation to those findings, ensuring that security and DevOps teams only focus on what’s exploitable in live environments.

This partnership creates a continuous feedback loop across pre-production and production, accelerating remediation and eliminating silos between AppSec, cloud security, and development teams.

Upwind + Ox Benefits

End-to-End Risk Visibility Across the SDLC
OX identifies high-impact vulnerabilities during design and development, while Upwind continuously monitors workloads and applications in runtime to validate which issues are actually reachable and exploitable. Together, they reduce mean time to remediation and minimize security blind spots.

Noise Reduction Through Exploitability-Driven Prioritization
OX uses exploitability, reachability, and business impact to reduce 95% of non-actionable findings before they reach production. Upwind applies the same logic in runtime, analyzing real infrastructure and application activities and correlating them with live topology to cut false positives and highlight true risk.

Faster, Developer-Friendly Remediation
Integrated findings across the platforms enable precise ownership mapping and automated ticketing. Developers are provided with clear, contextual alerts that explain what to fix and why it matters, streamlining the remediation workflow and reducing cross-team friction.

How to Use Upwind + OX Security

The Upwind + OX integration gives security teams continuous visibility and control from the first line of code to active production workloads. When OX identifies a critical vulnerability, such as an exposed secret or misconfigured API; Upwind validates its presence in runtime, confirms exploitability, and enriches the finding with real-time context like cloud permissions, data flows, and active internet exposure.

This enables security teams to:

• Validate risks before investing developer time
• Automatically correlate findings across code and runtime
• Reduce MTTR through precise prioritization and root cause visibility

Step-by-Step Workflow

• OX Security scans source code and CI/CD pipelines to detect critical vulnerabilities using its context-aware prioritization engine
• Upwind analyzes real activity, access patterns, and topology at runtime
• Upwind surfaces only exploitable risks, linking them back to original code, services, and owners
• Upwind runtime context is pulled into the OX Security platform, prioritizing critical risks based on exploitability for developers and appsec teams.

How will you strengthen your cloud security?

Book a demo to see how OX and Upwind work together to streamline security across the full SDLC.

About Upwind

Upwind is the runtime-powered Cloud Security Platform that secures cloud deployments, configurations, and applications through a runtime fabric that provides real-time visibility from the inside out. Upwind unifies cloud infrastructure and application intelligence, providing a live map of network and application topology, prioritizing fixes based on real usage, and detecting threats as they happen. Upwind was founded in 2022 by Amiram Shachar and his founding partners from Spot.io (which was sold to NetApp for $450 million) and is backed by top cybersecurity investors.

About OX Security

OX Security is an Application Security Platform that enables evidence-based risk prioritization across the entire software development lifecycle—from design to runtime. Founded in 2021 by Neatsun Ziv and Lior Arzi following the SolarWinds breach, OX was built to cut through the noise of generic alerts and help teams focus on the 5% of risks that truly matter. Its proprietary model evaluates exploitability, reachability, and business impact to ensure critical issues are caught before they’re exploited.