What is Application Security Posture Management?
Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is a company's approach to keeping its software secure throughout its development. This includes ensuring the applications are always prepared and secure to deal with threats (posture) and innovating and improving security to be up-to-date (management).
Challenges that ASPM addresses include:
Dealing with noise from numerous vulnerabilities flagged by different tools.
Overwhelming noise from various security tools makes identifying the most critical vulnerabilities hard, especially as severity ratings provide insufficient context.
Using multiple security tools adds complexity and lack of integration, leading to different contexts and perspectives on vulnerabilities.
Correlating thousands of vulnerabilities from different tools is complex due to varying formats and criteria, which can cause inefficiencies and missed vulnerabilities.
Struggling with manual analysis and correlation of incompatible data sets.
Different tools managed by different teams require cross-team coordination, adding complexity.
Experiencing prioritization paralysis due to limited resources and difficulty identifying which vulnerabilities to address first.
Communicating progress and justifying resource allocation for security fixes to non-technical stakeholders is challenging.
Why Checkmarx ASPM?
Checkmarx ASPM shifts from using separate security tools to a unified approach. Instead of managing vulnerabilities with different tools, Checkmarx ASPM integrates everything into one system.
Organizations can completely understand their application risks by consolidating security processes and tools. This approach allows teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on their impact on overall security. ASPM also improves collaboration between security, development, and operations teams, fostering shared responsibility and accountability while helping them identify and mitigate security threats, enhancing resilience and protection against cyberattacks.
ASPM uses Checkmarx’s native correlation features and can ingest data from other solutions using SARIF files. This makes it easy to manage application security in Checkmarx One, using a unified dashboard, correlation engine, risk management view, and workflow to analyze and fix vulnerabilities efficiently.