How Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Secures Cloud Applications

ASPM platforms not only identify risks in pre-production development environments through static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) but also fortify cloud security by addressing systemic issues affecting cloud-native applications. For example, ASPM platforms can uncover misconfigurations in cloud infrastructure and vulnerabilities within containerized environments. All of these can severely impact an organization’s cloud security posture. 

Keep reading to learn more about how ASPM platforms secures  cloud applications.

Complete ASPM Offers Complete Visibility

A complete ASPM platform provide complete visibility into your cloud infrastructure, offering a comprehensive view of the security posture across all of your cloud applications.

Without a complete ASPM solution, organizations often struggle with fragmented visibility, relying on point solutions that only provide partial insights. This results in significant blind spots that cause teams to miss critical vulnerabilities or misconfigurations that could lead to a security breach. By connecting directly to cloud infrastructure, a complete ASPM platform can provide a comprehensive inventory of your cloud applications and dependencies. This inventory is crucial for understanding the full scope of your cloud environment and identifying potential security risks.

It’s important to note that standalone ASPM solutions (aka non-complete ASPM) may only pull data from select security tools, limiting their effectiveness. That’s why it’s important to evaluate complete ASPM platforms like Cycode, which offer code to cloud coverage, pipeline security (secret detection, source code leakage, detection and CI/CD security), proprietary AST tools (SAST, SCA, IaC, Container) and posture management (comprehensive integrations with various tools and platforms).

Complete ASPM Correlates Data From Code To Cloud

The true power of ASPM lies in its ability to correlate data from multiple tools and systems — from code to cloud — and offers better risk prioritization and clear visibility of the risk path by tying cloud resources to their related artifacts. 

For example, a complete ASPM platform can correlate a vulnerable library found in a container image and the cloud resource it’s deployed on. This comprehensive correlation allows for a more accurate assessment and prioritization of risks and a more effective response to potential threats.

This integrated, contextual, and proactive approach to cloud application security makes ASPM tools an invaluable asset for security teams.

Want to learn how Cycode correlates data from multiple tools and systems? Read more about our Risk Intelligence Graph (RIG), which automatically generates comprehensive context to help teams prioritize each identified vulnerability. 

Complete ASPM Enables Teams to Remediate Faster

Beyond identifying and correlating security issues, complete ASPM platform enable faster remediation. By providing a complete view of vulnerabilities and automating security processes, these platforms help security and development teams respond more quickly. The result? Reduced MTTR. 

Cycode, for example, allows you to build custom workflows to automatically prioritize risks, provide context, and trigger fixes when vulnerabilities are detected.

Importantly, a copmlete ASPM integrates security into the DevOps pipeline, enhancing collaboration between development, security, and operations teams. This seamless integration ensures that security is a continuous process throughout the software development lifecycle, rather than an afterthought. 

Complete ASPM Consolidates Your Stack

Complete ASPM platform that directly gathers security data from cloud providers offers a comprehensive view of cloud application security. For organizations that haven’t yet invested inCloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP), ASPM solutions that pull in security telemetry from cloud providers directly provide a complete picture of cloud app security. This approach simplifies management and boosts efficiency.

Already have a CNAPP? You should still consider ASPM, which adds an additional layer of value by correlating data across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). This is something CNAPPs don’t do. 

Cycode’s recent integration with Wiz exemplifies how cloud security insights can be combined with application security data to create a more holistic view of potential threats and vulnerabilities.

This complete approach not only bolsters security, but also streamlines operations by reducing the complexity of managing multiple security tools.

Learn More About ASPM and Cycode

Want to keep exploring the benefits of ASPM? We have tons of helpful resources for you, including:

• The State of ASPM 2024
• Code Resilience in the Age of ASPM: Q&As with 20+ CISOs and DevSecOps Leaders
• ASPM Nation

By leveraging Cycode’s advanced capabilities, organizations can enhance their security posture, mitigate risks, and safeguard their most valuable assets in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Cycode is a Complete Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) providing peace of mind to its customers. Its Complete ASPM platform scales and standardizes developer security without slowing down the business to deliver safe code, faster.

The platform can replace existing application security testing tools or integrate with them while providing cyber resiliency through unmatched visibility, risk driven prioritization and just in-time remediation of code vulnerabilities as scale. Cycode’s Risk Intelligence Graph (RIG), the ‘brain’ behind the platform, provides traceability across the entire SDLC through natural language.

If you’re ready to learn more about Cycode – the industry’s leading ASPM platform trusted by leading global enterprises – you can book a demo here.