Council Post: Why ASPM Is The Future Of Secure Software Delivery
Summary
Meanwhile, new trends like public cloud, software-as-a-service models, APIs and generative AI have greatly expanded the attack surface and left traditional security approaches even less effective and more constraining on the agility of development teams. Fortunately, a new approach has emerged: application security posture management (ASPM), which attempts to address those modern threats while keeping development teams productive. Readers familiar with AppSec know about SAST (static application security testing) and SCA (software composition analysis) tools, and there exist many more flavors of scanners such as infra as code, container scanning and more. As for the noise generated by traditional scanners, ASPM helps in that manner: • Prioritize based on the broader application and business context and not just severity. • ASPM also provides superior management functionality that can save significant time, such as creating bulk exceptions that quickly clear off irrelevant risks.