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Open ASPM platform enriched with deep context from code to runtime
Apiiro’s application security posture management (ASPM) platform combines unparalleled application visibility with a 100% open platform ethos to go beyond shallow alert aggregation, siloed vulnerability detection, and simplistic risk scoring.
Guide: Application Security Posture Management Deep Dive
APP INVENTORY & RISK ASSESSMENT
Get complete and continuous application visibility
Modern applications are complex, with virtually limitless combinations of languages, frameworks, components, and deployments—and are changing constantly. Apiiro creates clarity out of that ever-changing complexity with its deep, always up-to-date application and software supply chain inventory.
- Connect your SCM to automatically build a complete application and supply chain inventory, including APIs, GenAI, authentication, and encryption frameworks, PII in code, and more.
- Apiiro retroactively and continuously analyzes your code commits, pull requests, builds, and runtime environment to detect material changes, monitor for anomalous behavior, and extract context for prioritization.
eXtended software bill of materials (XBOM)
With Apiiro’s XBOM you can explore every facet of your applications, including technologies, frameworks, components, and contributors, as well as their risks, interconnections, and changes over time.
Material code change detection
Apiiro monitors commits and pull requests for changes that may significantly impact your app attack surface, helping you focus security reviews and meet PCI, SOC 2, and other regulatory requirements around change management.
Deep Code Analysis (DCA) & code-to-runtime context
Apiiro’s ASPM leverages our patented DCA, code-to-runtime modeling, and risk-specific domain expertise to understand your application architecture and determine what is and isn’t a critical risk.
PRIORITIZATION & REMEDIATION
Fix the risks that matter—faster
The better the context, the better the prioritization. Apiiro’s crown jewel is our ability to deeply understand and model your application from code to runtime, giving you invaluable context to prioritize and enrich findings for faster fixes.
- Integrate existing point security tools or leverage Apiiro’s native tools for a unified view of risks, normalized, correlated, deduplicated, and tied to source in code and code owner.
- Apiiro contextualizes findings based on your business and application architecture and environment—from code source to runtime exposure—to prioritize based on the highest risk likelihood and impact.
Integrate with the tools security and development teams rely on
Apiiro goes beyond shallow alert aggregation, integrating and enriching security findings from any and all security tools and processes—from SAST and SCA to CSPM and runtime API security—as well as findings from your bug bounty program and penetration testing.
Risk Graph™️
Apiiro flips simplistic, vulnerability-driven AppSec on its head, putting risk and the ever-changing nature of modern applications at the center of our Deep ASPM platform.
Apiiro’s proprietary Risk Graph connects across different types of risks, leveraging context from code, runtime, databases, and your tools to surface and enrich the most business-critical risks.
GOVERNANCE & ASSURANCE
Manage, prevent, and measure application risk
Apiiro bridges the gap between risk management, application security, and development teams. Our automation workflows, coupled with our developer integrations and flexible reporting, provide full-lifecycle application risk management.
- Build risk-based policies and automated workflows to embed guardrails into pull requests and CI/CD builds and trigger remediations and manual security processes.
- Apiiro unifies and streamlines application risk management with a single pane of glass, security testing coverage mapping, and enterprise-grade reporting.
Dynamic risk engine
Apiiro’s dynamic risk engine leverages full-lifecycle, full-stack analysis to define and continuously calculate risk. Our risk engine allows you to set granular, multidimensional, and business-specific risk policies for holistic risk management.
Developer-centric guardrails
Apiiro’s risk-based approach to shifting security left means only business-critical risks block releases, minimizing distractions from false positives or low-impact issues, and providing all the necessary context for seamless fixes.
Measurement and reporting
With Apiiro’s always up-to-date risk dashboards and enterprise-grade reports, it’s easy to benchmark your application security posture and communicate your AppSec program’s impact on development velocity and risk reduction.
See our Deep ASPM platform in action
See for yourself how Apiiro’s application security posture management platform can give you the visibility and context you need to force-multiply your AppSec team.
Supporting the world’s brightest application security and development teams
The 4 Cs of ASPM
Like diamonds, no two ASPMs are alike. These characteristics make it clear how different approaches compare and what makes Apiiro a cut above the rest.
Comprehensive
Unlike most ASPMs that focus on alert aggregation, Apiiro builds a deep foundational inventory of your entire application and supply chain estate from design to runtime.
Coverage
Apiiro is a 100% open ASPM, integrating with any and all security, development, and productivity tools to ensure your entire software stack is covered.
Continuous
To keep up with agile development, our code analysis and material code change detection enable continuous monitoring and dynamic risk assessment.
Collaborative
Apiiro unites security teams and developers with a common language, ensuring that resources are focused on the most business-critical issues with all the necessary context.
Application security posture management FAQs
What is ASPM, and why do I need it?
Application security posture management (ASPM) is revolutionizing how teams secure modern applications and software supply chains. Evolving from traditional application security testing tools (DAST, SAST, SCA), application security orchestration and correlation (ASOC), and the shift-left security (DevSecOps) movement, ASPM promises to maintain speed and efficiency by taking a contextual, risk-based approach to AppSec.
Ultimately, the goal with ASPM platforms is (as the name suggests) to help strengthen your application security posture. They provide visibility across your attack surface risk and a single pane of glass for risks and enable accurate prioritization and insights for more seamless remediations.
How do ASPM platforms differ from one another?
Broadly speaking, ASPM platforms either focus on ingesting findings from third-party security tools or consolidating and replacing security testing tools. Apiiro does both and, more importantly, enriches security findings with deep context for unparalleled prioritization, insights, and understanding of your application attack surface.
Additionally, some ASPMs focus more on runtime, while others are code-based. Apiiro is deeply rooted in code, with runtime connectors to bring in exposure context. This enables us to provide accurate prioritization and embed security feedback directly into developer tools and workflows to proactively strengthen your application security posture.
How does ASPM differ from other application security testing (AST) tools?
AST tools add incredible value by detecting known risks such as vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, security weaknesses, and exposed secrets. ASPM platforms take a more holistic, interconnected approach to surfacing, defining, and understanding risk. Some ASPM platforms—including Apiiro—have some built-in AST capabilities, but regardless, ASPM platforms provide much more value than just detecting risks. By ingesting, correlating, and enriching security signals from AST tools, ASPMs provide essential risk context that empowers AppSec teams to properly deduplicate, prioritize, and rapidly remediate risk.
What’s the relationship between ASPM and DevSecOps or “shift-left” security?
DevSecOps aims to embed security earlier in the software development lifecycle via developer guardrails. Unfortunately, early attempts at shifting security left resulted in noisy alerts that added friction to developers’ day-to-day workflows. ASPM flips the simplistic approach to risk prevention by putting risk at the center. When done correctly, ASPM platforms empower AppSec teams to clearly define what is and isn’t a risk and then enforce risk-based policies as early in the development lifecycle as possible.
How is ASPM different from CSPM?
ASPM and CSPM complement each other. Cloud security posture management (CSPM) focuses on helping teams secure the infrastructure layer, emphasizing runtime and detecting misconfigurations. ASPM is rooted in code and application components, providing a management layer to unify security signals from across the software development lifecycle. While CSPM solutions are geared more towards cloud security and DevOps teams, ASPM solutions are geared towards AppSec and software development teams, giving them a more holistic view of their entire application risk, including connecting insights from CSPM tools, application security testing (AST), software supply chain security (SSCS), and more.
What makes Apiiro’s application security posture management platform different?
Apiiro is both a 100% open platform (meaning we integrate with any and all security tools) and has built-in application and software supply chain security solutions, enabling us to provide value to any organization from day one. We are both deeply rooted in code and leverage runtime context, allowing us to be both holistic and proactive. The core differentiator that sets Apiiro apart is the depth of our application knowledge, giving AppSec teams instant visibility into the unknown parts of their applications. Additionally, because we have the strongest foundational understanding of your application architecture, we can provide more robust and accurate prioritization and insights, which leads to drastically reduced triage work, remediation times, and, ultimately, a more efficient AppSec program.
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