Why your Application Security Posture Matters: The Unseen Value of ASPM.

What is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)?

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is an agentless tool that provides visibility into the security, data privacy, and operational risk of your applications. It delivers a continuous and comprehensive risk profile of your architecture, including databases, cloud providers, third parties, and more.

How does ASPM improve security?

ASPM is necessary for mapping your security environment. By providing complete visibility, it helps with contextualising applications and data, thus enriching your existing information. Additionally, it tracks how sensitive data moves within applications, identifies risks with third-party vendors, and ensures compliance by monitoring internet-facing services. This ensures that data privacy rules are followed, and sensitive information is protected.

It provides the ability to understand the business impact of a breach and the size of the attack surface. Therefore, ASPM is useful for identifying and prioritising security risk, judging the severity and impact of potential threats, and provides more detailed information and remediation steps. It prioritises the most important security issues in applications, cutting down on manual work and focusing on what matters most for the business. Moreover, it fixes setup issues that could leave you vulnerable. ASPM tools use checks and measures security controls to ensure consistency and compliance with company standards.

You can benefit from the tools ability to make sure the application is strong and can handle disruptions or failures. It analyses how changes affect systems, spotting potential failures and ensuring strong, reliable designs by applying cloud-specific or custom security rules.

How does ASPM integrate with existing DevOps and DevSecOps workflows?

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) tools are designed for customers using modern architecture such as microservices, serverless functions, containerised applications, cloud-based APIs, and web applications. These tools enable DevSecOps processes, offering significant benefits across development, security, and operations teams.

For Developers

ASPM tools automate architecture reviews, detect configuration drift, and provide relief from manual tasks by contextualising security threats. They also help manage obsolescence and tech debt. By integrating ASPM, developers can increase both efficiency and speed, allowing them to focus more on innovation rather than troubleshooting and maintenance.

For Security Teams

ASPM tools enhance security by reducing false positives in vulnerability reports, protecting sensitive data flows, and automating the architecture review process. This results in measurable improvements to the organisation’s overall security posture, making it easier to identify risks and safeguard critical data.

For Operations Teams

Operations benefit from automated drift detection, resiliency analysis, and proactive threat detection. ASPM tools reduce the frequency of incidents and outages, leading to smoother operations and faster response times during incidents.

Overall, ASPM tools provide a holistic approach to managing application security, benefiting multiple teams and improving overall performance and security across an organisation. Get in touch with us to find out how this may benefit you.