AppDynamics, a part of Cisco, announced Cisco Secure Application, the industry's first
solution to drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against
attacks and protect applications - from the inside-out. Co-innovated with the
Cisco Security business, the world's largest enterprise security company, this
new solution correlates security and application insights through a single
solution. Built natively into the AppDynamics platform, users benefit from
reduced alert fatigue, real time threat detection, and automatic breach
prevention. The result is businesses' confidence in application performance
without the fear of significant damage to brand reputation and customer trust.
Organizations are increasingly reliant on applications to engage with and
deliver services to customers, which leads to huge volumes of personal user
data being housed within the application. As a result, organizations face
increased vulnerability to cyber threats and security incidents. This
challenge is further exacerbated as they continue to support more employees
working from home who are using laptops and devices connected to the public
internet. This is testing the limits of monitoring practices and vastly
expanding the IT perimeter, creating new weaknesses and vulnerabilities in even
the most secure IT estates. Failure to have the right processes and solutions
in place to safeguard data housed in applications not only puts brand
reputation and consumer trust at risk, but also may cost organizations millions of dollars in the event of a
breach.
With applications now running anywhere from on-premise to
multi-cloud and cloud-native microservices, combined with accelerated
innovation, the need for an application-led approach to security is paramount.
This critical shift will enable technologists to identify vulnerabilities
within the application during production, correlate vulnerabilities and
breaches with business impact, and bring together Application and Security teams
to facilitate speedy remediation.
With Secure Application, IT teams will no longer
sacrifice security for velocity. Secure Application is the only solution that uniquely
brings together business performance and security insights with zero friction​ to protect brands against slowdowns and
exploits.
"A slow or under performing application can significantly
impact the user experience, but when an application's security is breached and
exploited, it can be life altering for the end user. Companies simply cannot
afford to ignore the risk," said Jeetu Patel, senior vice president and general
manager, security and applications, Cisco. "Secure Application is the first of
its kind to deliver this level of security insight that empowers both
Application and Security teams to safeguard customer and organization assets
while delivering a best-in-class digital experience."
With Secure Application, enterprise IT teams will have
access to:
- Automatic runtime protection: Visibility
into an application's true behavior to easily detect attacks, identify
deviations, and block attacks automatically.
- Simplified vulnerability management:
Access at the code level to detect dependency and configuration level
security vulnerabilities in production.
- Security insights informed by business impact: Security details correlated with the application topology to apply
business relevance to security events and helps teams focus on the
incidents that matter most.
- Collaboration between Application and Security teams: Shared context for Application and Security teams for optimal
collaboration, improved security posture, and healthy digital business.
"Enterprise IT Organizations are often considering how to transform
and align their security, application development, and operations tools,
processes, and teams," said Stephen Elliot, IDC Program Vice President, DevOps
and I&O team. "Application vulnerability management is one of the key
capabilities where transformation can be accomplished, while delivering
substantial business benefits."
AppDynamics with Cisco Secure
Application is currently accessible through early availability. Learn more
about Secure Application here.