Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Application Security, published a few weeks ago*, illuminates why Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) is transformational to cybersecurity, product security, and platform engineering teams, and features Dazz as a vendor in this fast-growing category. We’re honored to be recognized for our innovation in ASPM and proud of our collaboration with the dozens of security and software engineering teams who are using the Dazz Unified Remediation Platform as the foundation for their ASPM practices.

Over the past year ASPM has become so transformational that Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises will have adopted a solution by 2026. What’s all the hype about? For starters, modern applications are complex. They create siloed security data across development and operations, making visibility and control extremely difficult for both security and engineering teams. By using ASPM solutions like Dazz, you can unify application development, infrastructure resources, and security controls, so both your security and engineering teams can centrally monitor and fix code-to-cloud risks.

Furthermore, the proliferation of application security tools has dramatically increased the volume of data coming at your AppSec and software delivery teams. The struggle is real — and painfully manual — to prioritize remediation and mitigation efforts throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC.) ASPM solutions can save manual hours on triage and measurably reduce risk by automatically correlating data, deduplicating issues, getting rid of false positives, identifying the root cause of vulnerabilities, and providing rich context to developers to fastrack remediation.

Lastly, it’s challenging to communicate the risk posture of applications to stakeholders with so much raw vulnerability data from so many places: security tools, developer tools, and infrastructure and cloud environments. ASPM solutions like Dazz scale to process huge volumes of data across the application life cycle and translate this data into exec-friendly and application-owner friendly reports on security posture management.

As Gartner points out, it’s important to evaluate the capabilities of the various ASPM solutions on the market, as not all solutions are created equal, particularly when it comes to supporting legacy and cloud-native applications, diverse development teams and tooling, and a wide array of security control integrations. For example, if a platform lacks integrations with runtime security tools and infrastructure, you won’t get a complete view of your application’s security risks and potential impact to the business.

At Dazz, we’re helping customers accelerate their shift to the cloud with critical ASPM functionality such as:

1. End-to-end visibility across CI/CD pipelines and dynamic architectures in order to find and prioritize business critical risks for all stakeholders.
2. Comprehensive integration of legacy and cloud security tools and data across the entire DevOps environment. You can see a full list of existing integrations here, with new ones being added every few weeks.
3. The use of AI and GenAI for automated application vulnerability identification, prioritization, and remediation to increase productivity, while delivering more secure code. (Fun fact in the Gartner hype cycle for AppSec: by 2026, 40% of development organizations will use the AI-based auto remediation of insecure code from application security testing vendors as a default, up from less than 5% in 2023!)
4. Enriched context and guidance for software engineers to be hands-on with “shift-left” vulnerability remediation, while also reducing friction between AppSec and engineering teams.

For a full understanding of Dazz for ASPM, you can download our ASPM buyers guide here.

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*Report available to Gartner subscribers