Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is the ongoing process of identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing application security risks across the development lifecycle. As modern apps become more complex and release cycles accelerate, ASPM tools provide visibility, enforce security policies, and manage vulnerabilities. Azul Intelligence Cloud enhances ASPM for Java by offering APIs that detect vulnerabilities in live code, inventory used components, and provide real-time and historical insights. By eliminating false positives and focusing on production-use code, Azul helps teams triage and remediate threats more efficiently while supporting broader AppSec initiatives.
What Is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)?
Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is the process for continuously managing and assessing the Application Security (AppSec) risks throughout your software development lifecycle. ASPM identifies, collects, analyzes, and prioritizes various AppSec issues, including threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. ASPM security increases the visibility of the risks, enforces security policies and compliance, and can increase the security of your entire organization.
ASPM security measures are especially necessary as companies accelerate their development cycles, often releasing new features via cloud-based development on monthly sprint cycles. The accelerated production pace is hard for teams to fully keep up with, which results in vulnerabilities that aren’t addressed. Similarly, as corporations move off monolithic application development and embrace cloud-based microservices and third-party components, development teams find that they are expanding their attack surface for hackers and creating additional AppSec complexities that they need to address.
ASPM Tools
ASPM tools help you manage your application’s risk by identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing AppSec issues. These tools allow you to enforce your company’s security policies and mitigate the identified AppSec vulnerabilities. ASPM tools offer teams with a unified platform and comprehensive overview to effectively manage your entire AppSec program. Some of the top ASPM tools (rated 4.8 and above with at least five ratings by the Gartner community) include Dazz, Ox Security Platform, Legit Security, and Jit.
As an alternative to using the various ASPM tools you’d need to build application security posture management, Azul Intelligence Cloud meets your Java AppSec needs and provides support in many additional and innovative different ways.
Azul Intelligent Cloud and ASPM Security Requirements
How does Azul Intelligence Cloud (IC) work with ASPM features to help you secure your Java application? IC provides a set of APIs that can feed key information to your ASPM tool to help you identify, collect, analyze, and prioritize security issues:
- Vulnerability Detection: IC continuously monitors your Java apps to accurately discover all known vulnerabilities. It focuses at the class level on code that’s used in production, which helps you eliminate any false positives, so that you can enhance your security management and efficiently triage your security vulnerabilities. Learn more about Vulnerability Detection.
- Code Inventory: IC catalogs and tracks your code that’s running in production. This process helps you find and remove any unused or dead code, which reduces your cost and effort in maintaining, upgrading, and remediating unnecessary code. IC uses the strongest and most accurate signal. Learn more about Code Inventory.
- Real-time and historical analysis: IC provides insights into your development team’s code usage over time, and it retains your code-use history. This helps developers focus on updating vulnerable code that’s been used or is currently in use, and it also helps them determine if any vulnerable code was previously exploited.
- Triaging new vulnerabilities: IC continuously updates its Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) knowledge base whenever new vulnerabilities are found. This process helps DevOps teams quickly triage and address vulnerabilities that are in production.
For more information on how IC can feed Azul’s vulnerability data into your ASPM tool through its Vulnerability Detection API, see the Vulnerability Detection API documentation. For information about all of IC’s APIs, see Azul Intelligence Cloud API.
