What is a Secure SDLC?
SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) is a breakdown of all the stages involved in software creation. There are distinct SDLC stages and many...
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Liav Caspi
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May 15, 2023 11:40:59 PM
On May 5th, Gartner published an Innovation Insights Report that outlines the latest evolution in AppSec– Application Security Posture Management (or ASPM for short). ASPM is something that we at Legit Security have been pioneering for over a year – a revolution in the way modern application security can be done more efficiently and effectively.
In this post we will provide more insights into the elements of ASPM so you can better understand how this new approach transforms traditional application security and enables organizations to deliver secure applications at scale.
Modern applications are complex. Multiple trends have culminated together to increase this complexity and the resulting challenges to securing applications. These include microservices and cloud-native architectures that make applications more modular and fragmented, use of 3rd party open-source software, automated CI/CD pipelines, cloud transformation and development teams that are remote and more distributed. All this creates many moving parts which require multiple security scanning tools and techniques that cross multiple teams: security, engineering, DevOps, CloudOps and more.
Each scanning technique is traditionally done individually, and by organizational group, and creates a silo. Organizations purchase many point scanners such as SCA, SAST, DAST, Infra-as-Code and more, each covering a fragment of the application and operated independently of the rest.
Under modern application conditions, traditional AppSec fails, causing the following challenges:
To tackle all these challenges, a new unified and holistic approach is needed that can succeed where traditional AppSec fails. It is built on a foundation of unified visibility and governance from code to cloud, or from code creation, through development pipelines and processes, and into production environments.
The ASPM approach begins with strong visibility and context into the SDLC and into how applications are built and deployed. From the developer to source code repositories, build systems, artifact registries and runtime; including all components, pipelines, automations and security guardrails along the way. This provides traceability and deep context for all vulnerabilities and the basis for strong application governance.
An ASPM solution aggregates all risks across the pre-product development environment to provide a single view, which also analyzes trends, security coverage and provides contextual risk scoring to each application release.
Gartner created a graphic to represent core ASPM capabilities as shown below.
Gartner identifies 7 key core components of an ASPM solution as follows:
ASPMs can add value in two other very important areas:
The Legit Security Platform has been designed with the ASPM approach in mind from the start, and focuses on visibility, discovery and traceability from code to cloud. Legit shows the overall application posture and helps prioritize and triage all risks. In addition to the core ASPM capabilities identified by Gartner, Legit also comes with a comprehensive software supply chain security solution, protecting the SDLC, sensitive development data, and driving secure development practices and hygiene.
Legit uses graph technology and a discovery and correlation engine to bring superior visibility and context into application risk and to allow all stakeholders to prioritize what’s relevant first. It’s architected as a unified platform that ensures secure application delivery end-to-end, all with an agentless approach that requires 5-minute API integration with the development systems that span the SDLC.
Gartner predicts growth from 5% to 40% adoption of ASPM within only 3 years. Like Gartner, we believe that ASPM is becoming essential to modern application security, especially for organizations with complex development environments, DevOps, CI/CD, distributed teams, and complex application portfolios.
The ASPM approach is here to stay. Legit Security, as an early pioneer and leader of this market, is determined to continue innovating so organizations can release their software more securely and more efficiently.
To learn more about ASPM, get the Gartner Innovation Insight for Application Security Posture Management report or get a demo of our platform to learn about Legit Security’s approach to ASPM.
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