Secure your Dependabot surface
Update coverage across repositories, and advisories left open long past any reasonable window. We don’t connect to Dependabot to collect evidence for its own sake — we connect to secure it, and the compliance artefacts follow from that work.
Book a Demo[01] What This Surface Exposes
Where Dependabot goes wrong
Dependabot goes wrong through attrition: security PRs stay open, accumulate merge conflicts, and are eventually closed unmerged.
- Repositories with no Dependabot configuration at all
- Security update PRs open for months, accumulating merge conflict until abandoned
- Version update noise drowning the security updates that matter
- Private registries not configured, leaving internal dependencies unscanned
- Alerts dismissed without a recorded reason
[02] What We Secure
What we watch, catch and fix on Dependabot
On Dependabot we track security update age against remediation SLAs and separate security updates from version noise.
- Configuration coverage reconciled against your repository list
- Security update age tracked against remediation SLAs by severity
- Version and security updates separated so security PRs are not lost in noise
- Private registry coverage verified, since internal packages carry the same risk
- Dismissal reasons recorded and reviewed
[03] Where It Lands
Where Dependabot lands in your registers
Repositories and pipelines become asset register entries with their own criticality, because a build system that can deploy to production is a production system. Access reviews cover repository and pipeline permissions alongside your other entitlements, and the risk register carries supply chain exposure — the dependencies you pull, the actions you run, and who can push without review.
[04] How We Engage
On Dependabot specifically
On Dependabot, we configure coverage, tune update grouping, and drive merges of outstanding security updates. Major-version upgrades that break APIs we scope with your engineers.
Platform licence
Everything you need to find and fix it yourself, with no ceiling on the depth of the answer.
- Every connected tool monitored for misconfiguration and drift, with findings mapped to the assets and risks they affect
- Remediation guidance that tells you what is wrong and exactly how to fix it — however deep or awkward the issue is. We are engineers running a security company, so the answer is the real one, not a link to vendor documentation
- Assets, access reviews, and risk register populated from the tools themselves rather than from spreadsheets
- Unlimited integrations and unlimited users, with anything missing built within two weeks
Managed service
Every tool you connect through Konfirmity comes under our care, with our team doing the work.
- Continuous misconfiguration and drift monitoring across every connected tool, watched by our analysts rather than by a dashboard waiting for you
- Incident response led by us, with containment coordinated with your team
- Remediation performed directly wherever you have granted us the authority to act — and where we cannot act, we project-manage the fix to completion rather than handing you a ticket
- Decision support on the tools themselves: where something is failing you on capability or costing more than it returns, we will tell you, and help you replace it
[05] Dependabot FAQs
How does Konfirmity use Dependabot data?
We read alerts and pull requests through the GitHub API to measure coverage across repositories and time-to-merge for security updates. Repositories with no Dependabot configuration are reported as coverage gaps rather than silently omitted.
How do you stop security updates getting lost in noise?
By separating them from version updates in reporting and tracking them against severity-based deadlines. When routine version bumps and critical security patches arrive through the same channel, the important ones get triaged at the same rate as the trivial ones.
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