Developers and Quality Assurance
During the application development and testing phases, AVDL will serve as a standard language used by developers and QA testers to identify and remediate pre-production risks. Finding and correcting security defects early in the application lifecycle is a proven method of overall cost reduction.

Security Operations
During the application production phase, AVDL will improve the responsiveness and effectiveness of attack prevention products by enabling them to read incoming AVDL files and automatically generate policies based on new vulnerabilities, attack activity or patches deployed. In addition to vulnerabilities discovered by application assessment/scanning products, AVDL descriptions will also be added directly to security alerts issued by application vendors and security research organizations. These AVDL inputs will also serve as a consistent communication mechanism for remediation and patching products, allowing them to read vulnerability assessments from different scanning tools to improve the vulnerability reporting process and appropriate vulnerability remediation. Event management tools will be able to correlate vulnerabilities with actual security events and prioritize accordingly.

Auditors
In post-production, auditors will spend less time understanding various reports from disparate sources and more time documenting their findings. Ultimately, customers will benefit from both reduced application security risk and decreased total cost of operations and ownership.