Weakness axis #3

Reliability

Unhandled errors, missing timeouts, retry storms, resource leaks, race conditions — the SRE-grade gap that pure-security tools miss.

What this axis covers

Reliability specialist for code that compiles + passes tests + ships exploit-proof but falls over the moment traffic shows up: unhandled exceptions, missing timeouts on outbound calls, naive retry loops, dropped error contexts, resource leaks under load.

Why now

Fast-moving apps frequently ship without timeouts, retry policies, or graceful-shutdown handlers. The first SEV1 is usually a reliability bug, not a security bug. Securie closes the gap before production hits.

Where it hides in your codebase

  • fetch / axios calls without timeouts (one slow upstream hangs the request)
  • Retry loops without exponential backoff or jitter (retry storms compound outages)
  • Try/catch blocks that swallow errors silently
  • File handles / DB connections opened in loops without explicit close
  • Mutex / lock usage without timeout-or-fail semantics
  • Async tasks not awaited (promise-leak on serverless)

How Securie handles it

Static + runtime detectors

Static rules catch the obvious shapes (timeout-less fetch, retry-without-backoff). The runtime-validation API (eBPF, Scale+) measures actual production behavior — connection leaks, retry-storm signatures, GC pauses.

Sandbox replay with fault injection

Securie injects network failure / disk-full / dep-down / timeout into the sandbox to prove a reliability bug under realistic conditions before opening the fix PR.

Race-condition + deadlock detection

Concurrency-test track (R-TEST-CHAOS-CONCURRENCY): loom / TSan / RacerD wired into the sandbox replayer for race / deadlock / ABA detection.

What this axis is NOT

Not a load tester

Load testing (Performance axis) generates traffic to measure capacity. Reliability detects bug-shapes that would cause failure under load — without needing to actually generate that load.

Not an APM

Datadog / New Relic measure production. Securie's runtime-validation API (eBPF, Scale+) detects reliability bugs in customer-app containers — different scope, different blast radius.