THE AppDynamics, which is part of Cisco, application performance management solution (APM), Cisco Secure Application is launched, the first solution on the market to dramatically simplify vulnerability management, counter attack defense and application protection - from the inside out . Innovation, developed in conjunction with the Cisco Security division, a leading global corporate security company, combines security and insights applications in a single solution.
Built natively within the AppDynamics platform, the solution benefits users with less alert fatigue, real-time threat detection and automatic security breach prevention. The result is that companies can count on application performance without fear of significant damage to their brand reputation and the trust of their customers.
More and more organizations depend on applications to relate to their customers and provide their services, which means that huge volumes of personal data of users are stored within those applications. As a result, organizations face greater vulnerability to cyber threats and security incidents. This challenge becomes even more serious as it is necessary to support more employees who work from home, with laptops and devices connected to the public internet. This is highlighting the limitations of monitoring practices and immensely expanding the IT perimeter, which creates new weaknesses and vulnerabilities in even the most secure IT properties. Not having the right processes and solutions in place to safeguard data stored in applications not only puts brand reputation and consumer confidence at risk, it can also cost organizations millions of dollars in case of violations.
Now that applications run anywhere - from on-premise even cloud-native and multi-cloud microservices - in addition to accelerated innovation, the need for an application-oriented security approach is paramount. This fundamental change will allow IT professionals to identify vulnerabilities within applications during production and relate vulnerabilities and loopholes to the business impact, bringing together the Applications and Security teams to facilitate rapid remediation.
With Secure Application, IT teams will no longer sacrifice security for speed. Secure Application is the only solution that has the differential of relating business performance and insights with zero friction to protect the marks from slowness and exploits.
“A slow or underperforming application can significantly impact the user experience, but when the security of an application is breached and exploited, there can be serious consequences for the end user. Companies simply cannot afford to ignore risk, ”says Jeetu Patel, senior vice president and general manager of security and applications at Cisco. “Secure Application is the first solution of its kind to offer this level of security visibility, enabling both the Applications and Security teams to protect the client and the organization's assets, while providing a world-class digital experience. . ”
With Secure Application, corporate IT teams will have access to:
- Automatic protection during execution: Visibility of an application's real behavior to easily detect attacks, identify discrepancies and automatically block attacks.
- Simplified vulnerability management:Code-level access for dependency detection and production security vulnerabilities at the configuration level.
- Insightssecurity measures based on business impact:Detailed safety information correlated with the topology of the applications, in order to assess the commercial relevance of safety events and help teams to focus on the most important events.
- Collaboration between the Applications and Security teams:Context shared between the Applications and Security teams for maximum collaboration, better security posture and healthy digital practices.
“Enterprise IT organizations are always thinking about how to transform and align their processes, tools and operational, security and application development teams,” says Stephen Elliot, vice president of programs in the DevOps and I&O division at IDC. “Managing application vulnerabilities is one of the key capabilities to achieve this transformation, in addition to offering substantial benefits to companies.”
