AppSec experience

Quickly improve mean time to repair (MTTR) by enabling AppSec teams to respond and fix vulnerabilities more efficiently, ultimately reducing risk across your organization.

The problem: overwhelmed and under-resourced AppSec teams

Application security teams face an avalanche of vulnerabilities uncovered by traditional tools such as SAST, DAST, and SCA. These teams often feel paralyzed when it comes to prioritizing their efforts, especially when dealing with a mix of first-party and third-party code across diverse development environments. According to recent studies:

• 77% of flaws in third-party libraries remain unfixed after 90 days  
• Up to 252 days to respond/remediate (MTTR) vulnerabilities

The challenge doesn’t stop with detection. In order to fix vulnerabilities, AppSec teams must navigate fragmented code repositories, inconsistent CI/CD pipelines and lack of visibility into where vulnerabilities originate. As applications become more complex, spanning multiple languages, frameworks and deployment methods, the security tools that AppSec teams have long relied upon create more burden and work than they resolve.

Why it matters

With application development cycles becoming shorter, the impact of these inefficient processes takes its toll on AppSec teams. Extended MTTR for vulnerabilities leads to prolonged periods of exposure, compounding the workload and exacerbating burnout among security professionals. Furthermore, AppSec teams may struggle to maintain regulatory compliance, as unaddressed vulnerabilities can result in audit failures and  
potential penalties.

Organizations need tools that enable AppSec teams to efficiently identify, prioritize and resolve vulnerabilities without becoming bogged down in irrelevant data. By providing actionable insights and minimizing false positives, these solutions can help teams focus their efforts where they matter most, improving both their efficiency and the overall security posture of the organization.

The Contrast solution

Contrast changes the game for AppSec teams by embedding security checks directly into your applications. This approach ensures that only exploitable vulnerabilities are reported, reducing mountains of potential issues to the handful that matter. With Contrast, you can significantly reduce MTTR while improving the AppSec team’s experience, with the assistance of these key capabilities:

• Runtime agent: Contrast’s embedded agents integrate directly into your applications, conducting security checks continuously during runtime. This eliminates the need for periodic scans and ensures vulnerabilities are identified in real time.
• Continuous assessment: Contrast delivers instant feedback on vulnerabilities as they arise, allowing teams to address issues before they become critical.
• Visibility from within: Contrast provides unparalleled insight into exploitable vulnerabilities, eliminating false positives and reducing the noise that burdens  security teams.

Transforming the AppSec experience

Contrast’s intelligent approach reduces mountains of issues to a manageable list of high-priority actions. Contrast empowers AppSec teams to:

• Reduce wasted effort
  AppSec teams spend less time on false positives and scan maintenance, allowing for more cost-effective operations and better allocation of skilled resources.
• Scale seamlessly
  Organizations can maintain consistent,  high-quality security coverage as application portfolios grow, ensuring resilience in fast-growing organizations.
• Achieve faster MTTR
  Rapid vulnerability identification and remediation across diverse programming languages and frameworks ensures consistent security coverage and reduced risk exposure.

Learn more

With Contrast, your AppSec team can shift from overwhelmed to empowered, delivering the security coverage your applications need while reducing MTTR and improving operational efficiency. Ready to learn more?

• See how Unit4 significantly reduced false positives and sped up Devops
• Learn about the Contrast Runtime Security Platform
• Defend your applications and APIs with dedicated security experts