Contrast Application Security Testing (AST)
Instrument your applications to detect and resolve security issues from within.
Contrast’s unique approach to security testing improves accuracy and reduces developer disruptions and distractions.
SAST, DAST and SCA started as solutions; now they're the problem.
Your developers and AppSec teams are burning countless hours scanning, validating and prioritizing mountains of vulnerabilities, when the real goal is to eliminate them.
This needlessly complex web of tools has a limited outside-in perspective, leading to:
Scanning adds complexity to the SDLC and creates long pauses in the pipeline while developers struggle to understand and fix security defects, especially for zero-day vulnerabilities.
Maintaining separate tools for static, dynamic and third-party security assessments creates unnecessary busy work to operate and tune individual solutions.
How Contrast AST works
Install
agent
The Contrast agent instruments your code by integrating directly into the runtime environment. Supported environments include Java, .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, PHP, Python, Go, Scala, Kotlin and more.
Exercise your applications
Once your application is instrumented, you’ll continue development as usual while Contrast works invisibly in the background. Contrast AST continuously assesses your code throughout the SDLC, from initial implementation through every stage of testing and on through to production.
Prioritize and fix vulnerabilities
As vulnerabilities are revealed, development and AppSec teams get real-time alerts and dashboards to help prioritize, along with targeted guidance delivered through the tools they’re already using. Vulnerabilities are continuously retested until they are properly remediated.
Turn every test into a security test
Automatically uncover vulnerabilities throughout the SDLC
- Contrast’s revolutionary runtime approach to assessment identifies vulnerable code as it executes, without scanning and with no changes to how you write, test and deliver code.
- Contrast tests the entire fully assembled application stack, including custom code, libraries, frameworks, app servers and runtime platforms
Harden applications against exploits from the inside
- As a key part of the Contrast Runtime Security Platform, AST extends easily from identifying vulnerabilities during development to blocking malicious attacks in production.
- Runtime protection gives developers breathing room to quickly and calmly deploy the correct fix, avoiding zero-day fire drills.
Focus on the security defects that matter and fix them fast
- Testing applications from within ensures that only exploitable vulnerabilities are reported, reducing mountains of potential issues to the handful that matter.
- Developers receive a complete view of each vulnerability, including HTTP request, relevant lines of code, data flow details and a full-context security blueprint, enabling developers to fix vulnerabilities quickly and confidently.
Comply with industry regulations and standards
- Satisfy requirements from NIST, OWASP, PCI and many more that mandate the need for regular application vulnerability assessments.
- Continuous assessment ensures you always have a complete picture, eliminating challenges associated with stale point-in-time audit results.
Part of the Contrast Runtime Security Platform
The Contrast Runtime Security platform is well-recognized as the leader in Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) — proven technology that directly observes the behavior of applications and APIs at runtime. This “Secure from Within” approach delivers unparalleled visibility, accuracy and protection from attacks against both known and unknown vulnerabilities.
