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## Vision
Facilitate the Application Security Testing stage achieving [lovable maturity](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#product-strategy) and supporting the [best possible security assessment at the earliest possible moment](/handbook/engineering/development/sec/secure/#vision).
## Customer outcomes we are driving for GitLab
Vulnerability Research sits at the crossroads between the Application Security Testing stage itself, and customers of the stage. We provide enhancements to our products or processes to ensure our products and services are more effective for GitLab's customers.
We strive to enhance our customer experience with regards to providing correct and accurate results from our services.
## Vulnerability Research Team
## Mission
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Our mission is to advance GitLab's security offerings toward their long-term vision and to elevate GitLab's prominence in the security community. We do this by performing security research, working to improve the efficacy of GitLab's security capabilities, developing proofs of concept, publishing papers, speaking at conferences, and broadly sharing our security expertise and practical experience.
## Priorities
Vulnerability Research (VR) is a research & development team. VR contributes to GitLab’s business by working with product groups to improve GitLab’s security products. Advanced security is a key driver of GitLab Ultimate revenue.
Vulnerability Research (VR) is a research & development team. VR contributes to GitLab's business by working with product groups to improve GitLab's security products. Advanced security is a key driver of GitLab Ultimate revenue.
Our priorities are:
1. Analyze and improve the quality of the results of GitLab’s existing security products, including:
1. Analyze and improve the quality of the results of GitLab's existing security products, including:
- Assessing current quality against industry-standard or custom benchmarks.
- Identifying the types of work required to improve quality.
- Creating new detection rules or curating existing detection rules to improve detection efficacy.
Our mission is to advance GitLab's security offerings toward their long-term vision and to elevate GitLab's prominence in the security community. We do this by performing security research, working to improve the efficacy of GitLab's security capabilities, developing proofs of concept, publishing papers, speaking at conferences, and broadly sharing our security expertise and practical experience.
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