The Top 8 Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Tools

Cycode offers a complete approach to application security posture management as well as its own proprietary scanning capabilities from code to cloud (Secrets, SAST, SCA, CI/CD, IaC, and Container), but also allows you to connect to any of your third party security tools via its ConnectorX platform and ASPM marketplace of 100+ connectors and integrations. The Cycode Complete ASPM platform delivers real-time visibility into your security posture across the organization, with the ability to also discover any of your development and security tools across the SDLC. 

As a complete ASPM platform, Cycode can also work alongside your other scanning tools (like Snyk, Wiz, and Checkmarx), enabling you to have complete flexibility, but also optionality when it comes to building out your App Sec program with complete visibility. In addition, Cycode’s Risk Intelligence Graph (RIG), the ‘brain’ behind the platform, correlates and provides code to cloud traceability across your entire dev and security environment. Its Risk Intelligence Graph (RIG) is integrated with generative AI, so you can make queries with just natural language. 

Risks are prioritized using AI, based on factors like business risk, exploitability, and severity. The platform also provides an overall risk score for your entire organization, making it easier to identify and address risks and improve security behaviors.

Cycode have also recently announced several new AI features: including Material Code Change Alerting AI, which monitors codebase for significant code changes in real time, then alerts security team to potential risks, an AI Regex Builder, which automatically generates Regex patterns, and AI Secrets Detection, which automatically identifies passwords and API keys left in code.

Cycode ASPM enables your team to break down barriers between security and development, allowing teams to shift left and remediate risk earlier in the SDLC. It enables developers to quickly remediate vulnerabilities in their existing workflows, favorite tools, and methodologies like their IDE, CLI, or PR scans. Cycode also operates a threat research team that provides threat intelligence focused on zero day threats. This team delivers in-app advice and remediation tips for emerging vulnerabilities.

Aikido offers a comprehensive, easy-to-manage Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform. It correlates data from Aikido’s continuous scanning tools, including IaC scanning, SAST, DAST and SCA, to provide a unified view of your application security. This enables faster remediation of risks and less management overhead.

A benefit of the Aikido platform is they are open about which scanners are used. These include CloudSploit, Swyft and a custom rules engine. These scanners detect commonly exploited software vulnerabilities and risks in cloud configurations. Aikido also automate security policy and compliance checks for standards like SOC2, ISO27001, CIS, and NIS2. It can also integrate into compliance dashboards like Vanta and Drata.

Aikido prioritizes alert remediation and triage. The platform automatically filters out false positives – such as vulnerabilities repeated in multiple places, and vulnerabilities in code not actually being used. Risks are scored based on severity, and users can map resources considered critical to ensure developer time is spent on the most important issues.

Aikido’s platform is fully API-based and very easy to deploy. The platform is highly secure; it doesn’t store any code after analysis and requires read-only access. Aikido is a strong solution for teams and startups looking for an all-in-one application security platform.

ArmorCode’s ASPM platform provides a unified way to manage the security posture of applications. It consolidates findings from numerous application, infrastructure, cloud, and container security scanners, allowing for efficient identification, articulation, and remediation of the most critical risks. With adaptive risk scoring, the platform steers focus towards urgent issues, enhancing agility, and collaboration amongst developers and the security team.

In addition to offering comprehensive visibility into application security posture, ArmorCode automates security workflows and rapidly triages findings. The platform is designed to facilitate collaboration and maintain pace with the speedy advancement of application development, minimizing risks to businesses.

ArmorCode breaks down security silos by amalgamating security practices, vulnerability management across applications, infrastructure, and supply chains onto a singular platform. This enables security teams to navigate through security chaos and keep up with accelerated software release cycles. It offers holistic visibility and orchestrates remediation throughout secure software development lifecycles.

ArmorCode empowers security teams with the insight, agility, and the cross-team collaboration necessary to establish, deliver, and scale an effective and efficient AppSec, and vulnerability management program throughout an organization and its DevSecOps pipeline. It offers a comprehensive view of risk, prioritized in accordance with the security issues across the testing ecosystem, business context, and threat intelligence.

Check Point CloudGuard is designed to automate governance across multi-cloud assets and services. The platform delivers assessments of security posture, detection of misconfigurations, and enforces security best practices and compliance frameworks.

CloudGuard operates on various cloud-native environments including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, and Kubernetes. It also provides automated management features for new cloud accounts, assuring compliance and secure posture. The platform allows you to manage your compliance posture and run assessments for over 50 compliance frameworks and 2,400 security rulesets.

The platform leverages machine learning and threat research to provide high-quality insights into account activities. This enables teams to detect account activity anomalies for users and entities. This data is visibly represented in the platform’s customizable dashboards.

CloudGuard eases the challenges of correcting misconfigured identities and entitlements by automatically calculating the effective policy for any asset and enforcing least privilege access. Through its agentless deployment option for workload posture, security teams can take advantage of deep insights into workload posture.

CrowdStrike’s Falcon solution is a complete cloud security platform that spans from code to runtime, including an application security posture management component. This solution offers thorough application visibility and real-time risk assessment. The platform delivers extensive application visibility, enabling organizations to discover and map all application services, databases, and APIs.

The tool effectively prioritizes application risks in a production environment. Vulnerabilities are continuously identified and prioritized based on their potential impact and business criticality. The CrowdStrike solution offers complete visibility for serverless infrastructure, reducing an organization’s overall cloud risk.

CrowdStrike’s application security posture management automatically catalogs and maintains an up-to-date inventory of an organization’s cloud applications. It collects context and metadata to help teams understand how threats to applications affect business workings. The solution provides insights for strategic decision-making and proactive risk management.

The platform offers a robust framework for assessing business risks and assigns risk scores based on potential business impact. This allows organizations to address the most critical security issues first. Crowdstrike Falcon enables developers to build secure applications and ensures security checks, working efficiently part of the development pipeline. The platform’s scalability allows organizations to expand ASPM across more applications as needed.

Kondukto is an application security orchestration and posture management platform designed to aggregate vulnerability data into a simplified overview for security teams. It integrates all security testing data, providing a clear overview of your application security environment. The platform provides aggregated insights and prioritizes critical vulnerabilities, reducing noise and distractions.

The platform is designed to integrate quickly with existing tools used by application security teams. This provides immediate visibility of security vulnerability data. The Kondukto platform further streamlines vulnerability management by automatically deduping vulnerability information across security tools, simplifying triage, and establishing automated suppression rules for noise reduction.

For improved remediation efforts, Kondukto sends vulnerability information directly to tools like Jira or Slack, effectively speeding up the remediation process and promoting relevant conversations. It also provides a deep view of vulnerabilities, with a clear display of eliminated duplicates, and allows actions to be taken against multiple vulnerabilities collectively. The platform also includes a training and learning hub component, giving developers targeted insights tailored to their needs, thereby reducing recurring vulnerabilities within the organization.

Phoenix Security specializes in Application Security Posture Management and enables teams to identify risks with actionable remediation steps. The Phoenix Security Cloud Platform assists organizations in comprehending the potential vulnerabilities that pose a significant risk to individual assets, and it gives an estimation of potential damages. Phoenix also empowers organizations to observe their complete suite of software assets from a unified, risk-based perspective.

The Phoenix Security ASPM platform enables teams to quickly identify and remediate critical vulnerabilities through its auto-prioritization feature and helps you reduce your cyber risk exposure by providing specific actions. Phoenix’s SMART tags allow automatic correlation of application security and cloud security deployment, ensuring an updated risk profile of your applications and their associated domains.

The Phoenix Security platform enables teams to streamline, automate and improve their vulnerability management processes. This enables teams to reduce alert fatigue and focus on minimizing cyber risk and delivering precise, timely actions.

Xygeni is a comprehensive ASPM platform that facilitates better management across several key areas including risk assessment, strategic prioritization, and protection against malware threats. It allows you to map all SDLC assets (such as pipelines, teams, repositories, and packages), allowing you to understand their usage, importance, and relationships. This gives you a good overview of how your application functions.

The platform can prioritize risks and correlate security alerts, allowing you to focus on addressing the most pressing issues. This functionality is enhanced by automated remediation processes, intelligent pull requests, customized playbooks, and actionable guidance. The platform also incorporates contextual assessments to reduce noise and calculate exploitability, severity, and proximity to production. This can result in a reported 90% drop in false positives.

Xygeni will scan packages as they are published, blocking any malicious code if identified. This puts your DevOps team on a more secure footing, ensuring that they can work unimpeded by malicious code. This capability extends to detecting and preventing zero-day malware attacks in open-source packages.

The platform also collates a detailed audit and timeline of events associated with each asset. This allows you to understand who made changes to specific code areas, ensuring that you retain a detailed overview of your development.

Overall, Xygeni is a robust and comprehensive ASPM platform that allowed DevOps teams greater insights into the vulnerabilities and risk associated with their application.