Contrast seamlessly integrates with Splunk, delivering deep application insights that empower SOC teams to identify and respond to sophisticated attacks faster. This integration seamlessly blends Contrast’s deep application-layer insights with Splunk’s powerful SIEM capabilities, enriching Splunk dashboards and searches with crucial application context. This provides a unified view of the security landscape and strengthens an organization’s overall security posture.
The application security blindspot
The application layer is a primary target for cyberattacks and one of the last refuges for attackers to hide. Traditional security tools struggle to provide adequate protection of web applications and APIs. Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) offer no protection to zero days and generate a high volume of alerts with limited context, many of which are false positives. If teams actively try to ingest and triage the resulting flood of alerts, the SOC is overwhelmed, with no choice but to disregard or disable these application alerts. This creates a gap in the company’s defenses. And even when some application alerts are accurate, SOC teams often lack the application-specific context and expertise needed to effectively investigate and respond to these security incidents. This combination of alert fatigue, lack of context and limited visibility hinders an organization’s ability to defend its critical applications and data.
Application security with a unified solution
Contrast Application Detection and Response (ADR) and Splunk are a powerful combination for organizations seeking to elevate their security posture. Contrast ADR instruments applications from within, providing deep and continuous visibility into application behavior and identifying attacks with high accuracy. This real-time security telemetry is seamlessly integrated into Splunk, enriching security events with crucial application context. This empowers security teams to identify sophisticated attacks that bypass traditional tools, accelerate investigations and remediate with correlated data.
By combining high-confidence application security insights with broader security context, SOC teams can achieve a unified view of their security landscape to significantly reduce MTTD and MTTR for application attacks. This integration empowers organizations to protect their critical applications and data from increasingly sophisticated attacks leveraging the application layer.
This real-time data is seamlessly integrated into Splunk, enriching security events with crucial application context and enabling the SOC to:
| DETECT APPLICATION THREATS | INVESTIGATE WITH CONTEXT | ELIMINATE THE NOISE |
| Gain actionable insights into application attacks by correlating security events with real-time application behavior. | Enrich Splunk security investigations with deep application context for faster threat analysis and response. | Focus on actual application threats with precise, actionable alerts within Splunk. |
SOLVING APPLICATION SECURITY CHALLENGES
Gaining visibility and control over the application layer
Challenge: Traditional security tools offer limited visibility into the application layer, leaving organizations vulnerable to attacks that exploit application-specific vulnerabilities.
Solution: Contrast ADR instruments applications to provide continuous visibility into their behavior, enabling the detection of attacks that bypass traditional security measures. Integrated with Splunk, this real-time data empowers security teams to identify sophisticated attacks, understand the full context of attacks (including the specific code being exploited) and guide responses with runbooks for faster and more consistent incident response.
Detecting and responding to zero-day attacks
Challenge: Traditional security tools like WAFs rely on known signatures and patterns, making them ineffective against zero-day attacks that exploit unknown vulnerabilities.
Solution: Contrast ADR uses deep instrumentation to observe actual application behavior, allowing it to detect anomalous activity indicative of attacks, even if they’ve never been seen before. This real-time threat data is fed into Splunk, enabling security teams to quickly identify and respond to zero-day attacks targeting their applications.
Uncovering hidden threats and data exfiltration within applications
Challenge: Traditional security tools lack visibility inside of applications, making it difficult to hunt for threats concealed within complex codebases. Attackers can exploit this blindspot to hide malicious activity and evade detection.
Solution: Contrast ADR instruments applications to provide deep visibility into their runtime behavior, empowering threat hunters to identify suspicious activity within the application layer. By feeding accurate telemetry into Splunk, security teams can leverage Splunk’s powerful search and analysis capabilities to hunt for Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), uncover hidden threats and effectively identify suspicious patterns of data exfiltration.
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