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Vulnerability risk prioritization

Improve vulnerability risk prioritization for applications and APIs 

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Deliver real-time analysis of vulnerabilities to help AppSec teams prioritize remediation and SOC teams address risks based on exploitability and business impact.

The problem: drowning in a sea of vulnerabilities

Organizations face a growing vulnerability backlog across sprawling application stacks, making remediation efforts increasingly challenging. Many teams must sift through huge volumes of data generated by traditional vulnerability assessment tools such as SAST, DAST and SCA. These legacy solutions often lack meaningful context, leading to massive inefficiencies. According to recent studies:

  • Security teams take up to 252 days to respond/remediate (MTTR) vulnerabilities  
  • Time to exploit a vulnerability after its disclosure is as little as 32 days
  • Web application and API vulnerabilities are in the top three attack vectors involved in data breaches

Why it matters

The inability to prioritize application and API vulnerabilities has significant consequences for AppSec and SOC teams, as well as the broader organization. Without clear context, AppSec teams waste valuable time addressing false positives or non-critical issues while exploitable vulnerabilities remain unaddressed. This not only increases the organization’s risk but also can lead to compliance violations, such as failing audits or breaching regulatory mandates.

For SOC teams, the lack of actionable application vulnerability data impedes their ability to influence remediation efforts effectively. When all vulnerabilities are flagged as critical, teams become desensitized and decision-making grinds to a halt. By addressing these gaps, organizations can significantly reduce MTTR, improve alignment across teams and achieve a stronger security posture.

The Contrast solution

Contrast Security transforms vulnerability management by embedding intelligent security checks directly into your applications and APIs. This innovative approach ensures accurate, actionable insights and allows teams to focus on resolving vulnerabilities that pose the highest risk. Key capabilities include:

  • Runtime agent: Leverage embedded runtime assessments to analyze applications as they execute, detecting vulnerabilities in real time. This eliminates the need for traditional, resource-intensive scans and minimizes delays in identifying critical issues.
  • Consolidated assessments: Achieve unified visibility into both first-party and third-party code, ensuring no segment of the application stack is overlooked. Contrast consolidates data from diverse application components to offer a holistic view of vulnerabilities, enabling better risk assessment across the entire development pipeline.
  • Threat-centric prioritization: Focus remediation efforts on vulnerabilities that introduce the highest risk by analyzing exploitability, attack feasibility and potential business impact. Contrast prioritizes vulnerabilities based on live application behavior, ensuring that AppSec teams address the most urgent issues first.
By testing applications from within, Contrast Security delivers contextual insights that empower AppSec teams to triage vulnerabilities effectively. This ensures faster remediation and a stronger security posture without overburdening security professionals with unnecessary noise.

Transforming AppSec vulnerability prioritization

Contrast Security helps organizations achieve faster, more effective application vulnerability management by empowering teams to focus on what truly matters.

  • Enhanced productivity
    AppSec and SOC teams resolve vulnerabilities faster by focusing on the most critical threats, reducing wasted effort on low-risk issues.
  • Streamlined decision making
    Teams gain actionable insights, allowing them to prioritize remediation efforts with confidence and align security actions with business objectives.
  • Improved security posture
    Organizations see a measurable reduction in exploitable vulnerabilities, leading to stronger defense against high-impact security threats.

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With Contrast, your AppSec team can shift from overwhelmed to empowered, sifting through mountains of vulnerabilities to reduce risk. Ready to learn more?

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