SD Elements vs. Devici

SD Elements helps AppSec programs manage the pressure of supporting many fast-moving development teams by identifying the security controls a project should adopt before heavy design or coding takes place. The platform applies Security by Design principles by evaluating system architecture, technical patterns, data sensitivity, and compliance expectations upfront. This early insight helps capture risks at the point where fixes are simple and inexpensive, and many organizations see assessment and review timelines shrink by 30–50% as a result. By resolving uncertainty early, development groups encounter fewer delays late in the release cycle. Instead of depending on scattered spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, or manually curated checklists, SD Elements produces a set of project-specific security requirements tied to commonly used frameworks like NIST, OWASP, PCI, and ISO. Each requirement is paired with developer-focused guidance, examples, and optional learning material that help teams understand how to apply the control correctly. This makes it possible for smaller AppSec groups to guide and support security across portfolios of well over 100 applications without expanding staff. It also ensures that security expectations remain consistent across teams, technologies, and products, reducing variation in how security is implemented. The platform integrates with Jira, CI/CD pipelines, and other tooling used by engineering teams, allowing security tasks and requirements to appear directly within existing planning and delivery processes. This avoids creating a second workflow for security and keeps implementation tightly aligned with everyday development activities. A defining capability of SD Elements is its comprehensive traceability. Each requirement is linked to the risk it addresses, the associated regulatory or industry standard, and the evidence captured during implementation. AppSec leaders gain an aggregated, portfolio-level view of requirement coverage,

Devici helps security and engineering teams build threat models that are consistent, reviewable, and easy to maintain as systems evolve. It focuses on capturing the architecture first, using a visual canvas where teams lay out processes, data stores, external entities, and trust boundaries. As components are described and attributes are applied, Devici identifies relevant threats and suggested mitigations from its built-in library, reducing the manual effort normally required to reason through diagrams or ad-hoc checklists. The tool is designed so that AppSec specialists, developers, and security champions can work together without specialized training. Real-time editing, in-model comments, and version history support collaborative reviews and allow teams to trace how decisions and risks change over time. Reusable templates and patterns make it simple to model common services or shared architecture pieces, helping larger organizations avoid duplicated work across teams. Devici also supports pushing mitigation tasks into existing development workflows through optional integrations, ensuring threat modeling outputs don’t remain isolated from day-to-day engineering. Its structure helps organizations move away from one-off diagrams and inconsistent documentation toward a predictable, repeatable approach that fits into modern development practices. Overall, Devici offers a practical way to raise the quality and clarity of threat modeling efforts without requiring complex onboarding or heavyweight tooling.